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Fast Forward Dieudonne Convicted for Charlie Hebdo Joke
A French comedian was found guilty on Wednesday of condoning terrorism for a joke posted on his Facebook account after Islamist attacks in Paris that killed 17 people in January, but escaped a possible jail sentence. The Paris court sentenced Dieudonne M’bala M’bala to a suspended sentence of two months in jail. He had risked…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Teens Beaten Walking From Synagogue
Two Jewish teens in France were robbed and beaten after leaving their Marseille synagogue. The teens were attacked on Tuesday by two assailants who they described as youth “of African origin,” according to the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. According to the victims, the assailants said, “Dirty Jews, we will exterminate all…
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News French Reporter Chided for ‘Jewish Influence’ Question
France’s national watchdog on broadcasters reprimanded a journalist who asked a politician whether the country’s prime minister was “under Jewish influence.” The Superior Audiovisual Council, or CSA, criticized Jean-Jacques Bourdin, a presenter for the BFMTV television station and the RMC radio broadcaster, over an interview he conducted last month with ex-French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas,…
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Culture The Novel France Can’t Put Down Depicts Muslim Future — Or Does It?
● Soumission By Michel Houellebecq French and European Publications Inc, 320 pages, $49.95 Though it pretends to be about France’s near future, Michel Houellebecq’s controversial “Soumission” is also about its recent past. Set in the year 2022, the novel portrays a country riven by conflicting ideologies and worldviews, teetering on the edge of civil war….
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News What’s Behind Bill de Blasio’s Concern For European Jews?
Bill de Blasio seems to be spending a lot of time worrying about Jews in Europe. The New York City mayor has visited two different Upper East Side synagogues in the past month to deliver addresses about attacks on French Jews. He went to Paris for less than 24 hours in January to lay wreaths…
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Fast Forward French National Front Candidate Blames Jews for Blocking Music Career
Xavier Sainty, a candidate for National Front from the central Allier region in the upcoming regional elections, made the statement on social media earlier this month, the Liberation daily reported on Wednesday. “Even in show business I am blocked in all directions, and a Jewish producer, ‘Patrick Jaoul’ told me to my face: ‘as you’re…
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Fast Forward Dieudonne Basks in Anti-Semitic Lovefest in Iran
Iranian ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Dieudonne M’bala M’bala a “great artist” during a meeting in Tehran with the French comic and repeat inciter of hate against Jews. Dieudonne visited the Islamic Republic last week, the news site fararu.com reported, and presented Ahmadinejad with a golden statue of a man performing the quenelle — a gesture…
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Opinion You Want To Give Every European Jew a Gun — Really?
Getty Images In an article originally titled “Why Every Jewish Man, Woman, and Child in Europe Should Get a Gun,” Liel Leibovitz claims that European Jews need guns because they can’t trust their governments to protect them from anti-Semitic “savages.” Leibovitz chides those trusting in “reasonable measures,” arguing instead that, “European Jews with guns can…
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