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Fast Forward 2 French Jews Jailed for 2012 ‘Terror’ Bomb Try
Two French Jews were sent to prison for placing a bomb in 2012 under the car of an anti-Zionist journalist in Paris. The two men, identified only by their last names, Bismuth and Benhamou, were sentenced on June 20 by a judge from the Versailles Correctional Tribunal to six months and 10 months in jail…
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Fast Forward Le Pen ‘Anti-Semitic’ Family Feud Deepens
(Reuters) — Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front admitted defeat on Tuesday after failing to win wide enough support to form a political group in European Parliament, dousing her ambition to lead an alliance of nationalists against Brussels. Concurrently, a damaging public feud between Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie worsened as the 86-year-old FN…
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Fast Forward French Comic Dieudonne Cleared of Hate Speech in Suit Aimed at YouTube
A French court dismissed a hate-speech lawsuit against a comedian who mocked the Holocaust and accused French Prime Minister Manuel Valls of supporting servitude to French Jews. The Paris Tribunal for Grand Instances delivered its ruling on the lawsuit against Dieudonne M’bala M’bala on June 20, which concerned a video that the comedian posted on…
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Fast Forward French Jews Elect Haim Korsia as New Chief Rabbi
The Jewish community of France elected Rabbi Haim Korsia, the French army’s Jewish chaplain, as its new chief rabbi. Korsia, 51, defeated Rabbi Olivier Kaufmann, an interim chief rabbi, in a 131-97 vote on Sunday to win the seven-year term, the French news agency AFP reported. Kaufmann, the head of a French rabbinical school, was…
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Fast Forward 2 Men Point ‘Gun’ at Police Guarding Paris Synagogue
Two men pointed what looked like firearms at police stationed outside a Paris synagogue in part of a weekend string of anti-Semitic incidents in and near the French capital. The incident involving the police officers occurred on June 14 outside the synagogue on Julien Lacroix Street in eastern Paris’ 20th arrondissement, according to a report…
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Fast Forward Is French Far Right Patching ‘Anti-Semitic’ Family Spat?
The website of France’s far-right National Front party has resumed offering access to the blog of party founder Jean-Marie le Pen, after the deletion of his speeches because of their allegedly anti-Semitic references. The party’s website used to host directly videos of interviews on current affairs with Le Pen, but since Thursday its homepage features…
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Fast Forward It’s Le Pen vs. Le Pen as Father Slams Daughter Over His Anti-Semitic Remarks
Jean-Marie Le Pen denied making anti-Semitic statements on his blog and asked his daughter, Marine Le Pen, to repost the blog on the website of the far-right National Front party which she heads. Jean-Marie Le Pen, who is the party’s honorary president and founder, made the request Wednesday in a letter he wrote to his…
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Fast Forward Jewish Teenager Wearing Kippah Attacked With Taser Stun Gun in Paris
French police are looking into reports that a gang of youths tasered a Jewish teenager in central Paris. The National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, said it had contacted police based on reports in French Jewish media of the alleged assault, which according to the news site Alliance.fr happened on Tuesday on Paris’…
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