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Fast Forward France Court Upholds ‘BDS Is Discrimination’ Ruling
France’s highest court of appeals confirmed earlier rulings that found promoters of a boycott against Israel guilty of inciting hate or discrimination. The rulings passed on Tuesday by the Paris-based Court of Cassation confirmed the Nov. 27 convictions of 12 individuals by the Colmar Court of Appeals in connection with their 2009 and 2010 actions…
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Fast Forward French Academic Attacked in Suspected Hate Crime
A French-Jewish university director who has been the subject of an anti-Semitic campaign of intimidation was assaulted outside his home near Paris. An unidentified individual attacked Samuel Mayol, the director of the Technical University Institution, or IUT, on the evening of Oct. 9 while Mayol was walking his dog in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis,…
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Culture Resisting the Familiar Narrative of Resistance in France
How could anyone govern a country, Charles de Gaulle once asked, that has 240 different kinds of cheese? Less well known is the question he posed as leader of the Free French during World War II: How can anyone liberate a country that has nearly the same number of resistance movements? Okay, he didn’t really…
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Opinion French Jews Need To Stand Up for Muslims Right Now
France discovered recently that Marine Le Pen, leader of the extreme right-wing Front National, has a kindred spirit. Her name is Nadine Morano. Like Le Pen, Morano is an immigrant-baiting and blunt-talking politician. A leading figure of the conservative Les Républicains, Morano is very close to the party’s leader, the once (and so he hopes)…
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Fast Forward Giant Nazi Banner for Film Sparks Outrage in French City
(JTA) — A large Nazi banner unfurled in Nice, France, caused an outcry among locals and tourists. The red banner with a swastika hung from the Palais de la Prefecture on Monday and Tuesday, during the filming of an adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s Holocaust memoir “A Bag of Marbles.” “People started screaming,” tourist Andrew Gentry told…
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Fast Forward Dieudonne Banned From French Theater
A Paris court ordered the eviction of the French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, who often incites racial hatred against Jews, from a theater where he has worked for the past 15 years. The Tribunal of Major Instances of Paris re-issued the eviction order from the Main-D’or Theater on Tuesday, Le Monde reported. Dieudonne, who has…
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Fast Forward French School Uses Colored Tags To Identify Non-Pork Eating Children
A French municipality launched a probe into an elementary school’s use of red and yellow tags to identify pupils who do not eat pork and meat, respectively. The city of Auxerre, located 105 miles southeast of Paris, opened the investigation on Friday after parents complained to local media about the school’s initiative, in which neck…
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The Schmooze Artist Anish Kapoor Slams France For Covering Up Anti-Semitic Vandalism on ‘Queen’s Vagina’
British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor made news in three European capitals over the Jewish High Holy Days, marching with Ai Weiwei for refugees in London, fighting anti-semitism in France, and opening a major exhibit in Moscow. The biggest of this media trifecta was the vandalism on a sexually-suggestive piece nicknamed the “queen’s vagina” at the Palace…
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