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Fast Forward Suspect in 1980 Paris Synagogue Bombing Released to House Arrest
PARIS – A Lebanon-born university lecturer in Canada who was extradited to France to stand trial for killing four people in a 1980 synagogue bombing in Paris was released to house arrest. In his ruling last week, a high court magistrate in charge of reviewing appeals on incarcerations cited “doubt on the fundamental question” of…
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Fast Forward France Delays Mideast Peace Push That Israel Has Criticized
French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday an international conference due in late May in Paris to relaunch peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis had been postponed but would take place this summer. With U.S. efforts to broker a two-state accord in tatters and Washington focused on its November presidential election, Paris has lobbied countries…
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Fast Forward France’s Jewish Student Union Joins Social Media Hate-Speech Suit
— France’s Union of Jewish Students has joined two other French groups in suing Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for failing to remove anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic content. SOS Racisme, France’s largest anti-racism group, and SOS Homophobie, a gay rights movement, announced Sunday in a statement that they were taking legal action against the three social…
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Fast Forward French Minister Slams UN Vote Ignoring Jewish Ties to Jerusalem
– The interior minister of France criticized his country’s recent vote at a U.N. agency for a resolution that critics said ignored Jewish historical ties to Jerusalem and its holy sites. Bernard Cazeneuve spoke of his objection to France’s April 16 vote at UNESCO, the Paris-based U.N. organization dealing with education, culture and heritage, at an…
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Opinion Meet the French Jews Who Love Marine Le Pen and Her Far Right Party
Samuel Johnson’s riff on female preachers and walking dogs — “It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all” — comes to mind with the news from France of the creation of the UPFJ, a bland acronym that stands for the Union des Patriotes Francais Juifs, or the Union…
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Fast Forward Israel Gives Cold Shoulder to France’s Planned Mideast Peace Push
Israel formally expressed its opposition on Thursday to a French-proposed peace initiative, reaffirming its position that only direct talks with the Palestinians can resolve the decades-old conflict. A week ago, France said it would hold an international conference in Paris on May 30 in a bid to relaunch talks between Palestinians and Israelis by the…
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Fast Forward French BDS Activists Lose Hate Speech Appeal
A French appeals court upheld the hate-crime convictions of anti-Israel activists who called at a demonstration for a boycott of the Jewish state. The ruling delivered last week by the French Cassation Court concerned seven activists whom a criminal appeals court in Caen in southern France slapped with a $1,000 fine each and a conviction…
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Fast Forward Paris Thugs Vandalize Signs for Israeli Show at Louvre
Vandals defaced and tore down signs announcing an exhibit about Israel at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The vandalism occurred Sunday morning on the French capital’s subway. The exhibit, called “Open a Door to Israel,” a joint project of Israel’s Strategic Affairs and Foreign Affairs ministries, features nine doors that open to interactive screens that…
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