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Fast Forward Breitbart Expansion in Europe Blocked by Domain-Gobbling Activists
As far-right leaders vie for power in France and Germany in the coming months, Breitbart was planning an expansion to those countries which might be fertile ground for its message. But that’s run into a minor snag: the domain names that Breitbart might use have been gobbled up by those opposed to its mission. “When…
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Breaking News Marine Le Pen Leads Polls in Race for French President
(JTA) — Far-right National Front Party leader Marine Le Pen, a candidate for president of France, is in the lead, according to a major poll. Le Pen is polling at between 25 percent and 26 percent in the first round of the presidential election, according to the poll conducted by Ipsos Sopra Steria for the…
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Breaking News Art Dealer Guy Wildenstein Acquitted in $534M Tax Fraud Scheme
Wealthy French art dealer Guy Wildenstein and seven others were acquitted of tax fraud charges on Thursday thanks to a legal loophole the Paris court acknowledged might not be understood by the general public. Four Wildenstein family members and four of their financiers and lawyers were accused of deliberately understating to tax authorities the real…
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News French Jews Mark Second Anniversary of Kosher Market Attack
French Jews this week commemorated the second anniversary of the Hyper Cacher shooting, remembering the four victims who lost their lives during an al-Qaeda assault on the Paris kosher supermarket. “I believe that we’ll never forget what happened here. When we cross the threshold, we remember that on that Friday, it could have been us,”…
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Breaking News French Supermarket Sorry for ‘Made in Israeli Settlement’ Fruit Labels
(JTA) — Following complaints, a French supermarket store apologized for applying labels reading “made in Israeli settlements” to some of its products. The labels that appeared last month on pomegranates and Tangerines at the store belonging to the Auchan supermarket chain in the Paris suburb of Kremlin-Bicêtre were the result of a “an error” by…
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Breaking News France Marks 2 Years Since Attack on Kosher Market, Charlie Hebdo
(JTA) — French politicians and community leaders marked two years since an attack on a Paris Jewish supermarket killed four shoppers. The Jan. 9, 2015 attack at the Hyper Cacher in eastern Paris came two days after terrorists killed 12 at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a day after a police officer was…
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Breaking News French Presidential Candidate Compares Holocaust to Anti-Muslim Bias
(JTA) — French Jews accused a left-wing presidential candidate of encouraging Holocaust denial following his comparison of the Nazi persecution of Jews to the situation of French Muslims today. Vincent Peillon, who is running in the Socialist Party primaries ahead of the elections this year, made the analogy Tuesday during an interview aired by the…
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Breaking News French Jews Slam Israeli Defense Chief’s Remarks on Dreyfus Trial
(JTA) — The umbrella group of French Jewish communities blasted the defense minister of Israel for calling on Jews to leave France and drawing parallels between the Dreyfus Affair and Paris’ attempts to push for Israeli-Palestinian talks. The statement Tuesday by the CRIF umbrella warned that the remarks a day earlier by Avigdor Liberman may…
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