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Opinion Does Home Invasion Signal Beginning of End for French ‘Israelites’?
It is thanks to the sort of crime usually relegated to local police blotters that France will need to reflect, in 2015, on the sort of republic it wishes to be. In early December 2014, three young thugs broke into a young couple’s apartment in the Parisian suburb of Créteil, tied up the couple, ransacked…
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Fast Forward Paris Suburb Honors Jailed Marwan Barghouti
The municipality of a Parisian suburb honored Palestinian Fatah faction leader Marwan Barghouti, who is serving multiple life sentences in Israel for acts of terrorism against civilians. The naming of Barghouti as honorary citizen of Aubervilliers on Dec. 22 came shortly before a French court ordered the nullification of an honor conferred by another Parisian…
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Fast Forward Suspect No. 4 Arrested in Paris Home Invasion Rape
French police arrested a man they suspect was involved in the rape and robbery of a Jewish family in a Paris suburb. The suspect, who was not named, was apprehended Tuesday during a routine police inspection of his vehicle while he was driving in Saint-Etienne near Lyon, 340 miles southeast of the capital, Le Figaro…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Students Snub ‘Extremist’ Naftali Bennett
A left-leaning affiliate body refused to meet visiting Israeli far right wing minister Naftali Bennett, sparking criticism by the head of France’s umbrella of Jewish organizations. Roger Cukierman, president of the CRIF umbrella body, criticized the Union of Jewish Students of France, or UEJF, for allegedly refusing a request by Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett…
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Fast Forward Paris Shop With Mezuzah Hit by Gunfire
For the third time in a week, bullet holes were discovered at a Jewish establishment in the Paris area. The latest incident was discovered on Friday by the owner of a printing shop in the French capital’s 19th arrondissement, the BNVCA watchdog on anti-Semitism reported on its website. “After the attacks opon Jewish schools and…
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Fast Forward French Town Ordered To Yank ‘Terrorist’ Plaque
A Paris suburb must remove a plaque honoring a convicted Palestinian terrorist, a French judge ruled. Municipal authorities in Bezons were ordered to take down the plaque for Ihrima Majdi Al Rimawi, who was convicted in the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi in Jerusalem. The judge told the Communist Party-dominated Bezons Council…
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Fast Forward Is Europe Running Out of Patience With Israel?
(JTA) — When Britain’s Parliament voted in favor of recognizing Palestine in October, Elie Barnavi, a former Israeli ambassador to France, dismissed the motion as mere symbolism. Reflecting many Israelis’ view of the string of nonbinding motions on Palestinian statehood adopted by European parliaments in recent weeks, Barnavi said the vote should be seen as…
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Fast Forward Shouting ‘Palestine,’ Driver Plows Car Into French Crowd
A French motorist reportedly shouted “This is in the name of the children of Palestine” as he slammed his car into crowds in eastern France. At least 11 people were injured, two critically, in the incident Sunday in the city of Dijon, the French news agency AFP reported. The news agency cited a source close…
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