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Fast Forward French Interior Minister Slams ‘Anti-Semitic’ Violence at Anti-Israel Protest
France’s interior minister promised on Monday to crack down on anti-Semitism after violence marred pro-Palestinian rallies in and around Paris to protest against Israel’s role in the two-week-old Middle East conflict. France has both the largest Jewish and Muslim populations in Europe and flare-ups of violence in the Middle East often add to tensions between…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Rioters Torch Cars, Throw Firebomb at Paris Synagogue
Anti-Israel protesters hurled a firebomb at a synagogue during an unauthorized demonstration in a heavily Jewish suburb of Paris. The riot broke out on Sunday afternoon in Sarcelles after a few hundred people assembled at a local metro station to protest Israel’s actions in Gaza, as well as the decision by French Interior Minister Bernard…
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Fast Forward French Prime Minister Presses Anti-Semitism Fight Amid Unrest Over Gaza
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the fight against anti-Semitism a “national cause.” Speaking at a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup of Jews ahead of their deportation from Paris in 1944 to Nazi death camps, Valls condemned recent anti-Semitic incidents and violence that occurred during protests in France against Israel….
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News French Jews Fight Back Against Anti-Israel Mobs at Synagogues
For the past 14 years, French Jews have grown accustomed to coming under attack during periods of conflict in the Middle East from hostile elements within their country’s large Arab and Muslim communities. One recent incident, however, stood out: the July 13 riot by Palestinian sympathizers outside the Synagogue de la Roquette in central Paris…
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Opinion France Must Reckon With Its Anti-Semitism Problem
When a crowd of people took the Bastille, the hulking prison in eastern Paris symbolizing the power of the monarchy, on July 14, 1789, they launched the French Revolution. This explains why popular demonstrations on behalf of the revolutionary ideals of 1789 — liberty, equality and fraternity — most often conclude at the towering column…
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News Brazen Anti-Semitism Sends French Jews Racing To Leave in Record Numbers
Nowhere in the developed world has there been an increase in aliyah as marked as in France. The Jewish Agency for Israel and Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption estimate that more than 5,000 French Jews — 1% of the community — will immigrate to Israel in 2014, compared with 3,289 in 2013 and 1,917 in…
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Fast Forward Paris Police Hope To Ban Pro-Palestinian Rally
Paris police recommended that the city forbid pro-Palestinian activists from going ahead with plans to hold a massive anti-Israel protest. Police sources told the AFP news agency on Wednesday that the prefecture has made its position known to city officials over the planned demonstration Saturday outside the Barbas–Rochechouart metro station near the northern Gare du…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Paris Crowd Besieges Synagogue
Dozens of young men protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza briefly besieged a Paris synagogue and clashed with security. At least three Jews were taken to the hospital as a result of the clashes that erupted Sunday between the protesters and young Jewish men who guarded the Don Isaac Abravanel Synagogue in Paris, a witness told…
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