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Opinion Fascism and France Today
Zeev Sternhell is one of our era’s pre-eminent historians of modern France. In a series of path-breaking works, Sternhell has argued that fascism is far from being a foreign import to France, but actually has its intellectual and political roots in French soil. While historians still debate his painstaking and provocative interpretation, there is little…
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Fast Forward Muslim Girls Arrested for Plotting To Blow Up Synagogue in France
Two teenage Muslim girls were arrested for planning a suicide bomb attack on a synagogue in Lyon in east-central France. The girls, ages 15 and 17, were arrested last week after the plot to blow up the Great Synagogue of Lyon was discovered, the French language JSS News website reported, citing an unnamed source from…
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Fast Forward Francois Hollande Calls for Gaza Demilitarization
French President Francois Hollande called for the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip and the easing of Gaza’s blockade. Hollande’s speech Thursday to the French diplomatic corps was the latest sign that the international community plans to press for demilitarization after the latest war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Reports emerged in Lebanese…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Assaulted in Marseilles Over Gaza War
A man in his 60s was lightly wounded in an apparent anti-Semitic assault in Marseille. The assault Tuesday began after the victim drove up to his own garage to discover it had been blocked by a parked car, the local branch of the CRIF umbrella organization of French Jewish communities wrote in its report of…
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Fast Forward French Deputy Mayor Opposes Name Change of ‘Death to The Jews’ Hamlet
A French deputy mayor said she was opposed to changing the name of a locality under her jurisdiction called “death to the Jews.” Marie-Elisabeth Secretand of the village of Courtemaux advocated keeping the name of Mort-Aux-Juifs in an interview with the news agency AFP. Secretand was reacting to a letter sent Monday by the Simon…
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Fast Forward Fake Pics Show Israelis Killing Disney Characters
A French senator apologized for any misunderstandings connected to her praise for a campaign featuring fake pictures of Israeli leaders murdering Disney cartoon characters. Nathalie Goulet of the Union of Democrats and Independents party made the endorsement on Twitter earlier this week, Europe1.fr reported, in posting on her account the images of Israeli Prime Minister…
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Opinion Did Right-Wing French Jews Provoke Anti-Semitic Violence?
In late July, the French newspaper Libération revealed that the Ministry of the Interior is considering outlawing the Ligue de Défense Juive (the Jewish Defense League, known in French by the acronym LDJ). The ministry opened this dossier following the dismal ruckus outside the Don Isaac Abravanel synagogue two weeks earlier in Paris. According to…
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Fast Forward France Suggests World Should Impose 2-State Solution on Middle East
World powers should impose from outside a political solution to halt the conflict between Israel and Hamas that has killed hundreds in Gaza, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday. Fabius issued the statement after a Palestinian official said an Israeli air strike killed 10 people and wounded about 30 on Sunday in a…
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