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Breaking News Marseille Jews Split on Wearing Kippahs After Spate of Attacks
Representatives of the Jewish community of Marseille issued conflicting statements on whether Jews should hide their kippah in the southern French city following a spate of anti-Semitic stabbings. Tzvi Amar, president of the local office of the Consistoire, the French Jewish community’s organization responsible for religious services, was quoted Tuesday by Le Figaro as saying…
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Breaking News French Jewish Politician Stabbed to Death in Flashpoint Paris Suburb
The body of a French Jewish local politician from Creteil near Paris was found riddled with stab wounds in his apartment. Alain Ghozland, 73, who served as the municipal councillor of “The Repulicans” party (headed by Sarkozy), is believed to have been murdered but police have no leads in the investigation into his death, L’Express…
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Breaking News French Jewish Teacher Saved by Torah in ‘ISIS’ Machete Attack
A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in Marseille on Monday is a Turkish citizen of Kurdish origin who said he acted in the name of the militant Islamist group Islamic State, the prosecutor in the southern French city of Marseille said. The victim used a Torah book as a shield, according to one news…
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Breaking News France Pays Silent Tribute to 2015 Terror Victims
PARIS – France honored the victims of Islamist militant attacks last year in a thinly attended silent ceremony on Sunday, almost a year to the day when more than a million people marched in Paris to protest killings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo layed a wreath…
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Breaking News French Auctioneers Pull Portrait Equating Palestinian With Mandela
A French auction house cancelled the sale of a painting that equates a Palestinian militant serving multiple life sentences for murder with Nelson Mandela. The portrait of Marwan Barghouti, a senior PLO official whom an Israeli court in 2002 found guilty of terrorism and murder by planning bomb attacks on civilians, was was pulled last…
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Breaking News Anti-Semitic Incidents Explode in France — Report
Anti-Semitic incidents doubled in France in 2014 over the previous year even as other hate crimes decreased, according to a new report. “Breaking the Cycle of Violence,” which was by the Human Rights First nonprofit on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher terrorist attacks in Paris, draws on “public information and interviews…
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Breaking News Israeli Company Cuts Ties With France’s Orange Amid BDS Row
An Israeli communications company will end its relationship with French telecommunications giant Orange next month, following a BDS controversy. The severing of 17 years of ties comes eight months after Orange CEO Stephan Richard said at a news conference in Cairo that his company would abandon its Israeli affiliate Partner “tomorrow morning” if not for…
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Breaking News Charlie Hebdo Editor: We Are Used to Jews Being Killed
No one questions when Jews are killed because they are Jewish, the editor of Charlie Hebdo wrote in a special edition of the French satirical magazine marking the first anniversary of a terror attack on its staff. “We are so used to Jews being killed because they are Jewish,” Gerard Biard wrote in an editorial…
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