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News French Court Rules Boycott of SodaStream Illegal
A pro-Palestinian group’s campaign to boycott the products of the Israeli SodaStream company violates French law, a Paris court ruled. The ruling was handed down on Jan. 23 by the French capital’s Tribunal for Grand Instances, which fined the group about $9,000 and ordered it to remove calls to boycott SodaStream and its agents from…
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Fast Forward French Anti-Government March Turns Anti-Semitic
A march through Paris against French President Francois Hollande ended with anti-Semitic chants and cries of support for an anti-Semitic comedian. At least 150 protesters were arrested in the “Day of Anger” demonstrations on Sunday, according to reports. Nineteen police officers were injured in clashes with protesters, one seriously, the French news agency AFP reported….
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Fast Forward JDate Billboards Yanked After French Vandalism
A French billboard advertiser scaled back a campaign for the Jewish dating site JDate after its billboards were vandalized. Thierry Courrault, a regional director for the JC Decaux billboard giant, said his company decided to pull 18 billboards out of 100 advertising JDate and which carried the site’s Star of David-shaped logo. The reason was…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Leader Backtracks on Soft Quenelle Stand
The president of France’s main Jewish group backtracked on what appeared to be a softened stance on the quenelle after it was interpreted as support for a French soccer player who performed the gesture during a match. Roger Cukierman of the CRIF umbrella group on Thursday reiterated that the quenelle is “an inversed Hitler salute”…
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Fast Forward ‘Quenelle’ Comic Dieudonne Busted for Attacking Court Officers
The French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala was arrested for allegedly assaulting court officers who came to his home with notices for payments due on fines for inciting hatred against Jews. Dieudonne, who owes nearly $100,000 for several hate speech convictions, was arrested Tuesday night, according to a report by the French news agency AFP. He…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Leader Softens Stance on ‘Anti-Semitic’ Quenelle Gesture
The president of France’s main Jewish group has softened his blanket condemnation of the quenelle gesture and said that it is not necessarily anti-Semitic. Roger Cukierman, the president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, adjusted his position in a filmed interview published Tuesday on the website of the Le Figaro daily. Reacting…
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Fast Forward French Woman Sues University of Oklahoma to Recover Nazi-Looted Art
A French woman is suing the University of Oklahoma to recover a Nazi-looted painting that was taken from her father. Leone Meyer, the daughter of Raoul Meyer, a Jewish businessman in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France, is attempting to recover the 1886 impressionist work “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep,” by Camille Pissarro, the Oklahoman…
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Food Taste the Real Quenelle
The first time I heard that Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala had adopted the “quenelle” as his trademark, my first thought was that the controversial French comedian had a strange affinity for fish. That’s because a quenelle, in my mind, refers not to an anti-Semitic inverted Nazi salute, but to a delicious dish from the south of…
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