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News France Crackdown on Boycott Israel Activists Sparks Backlash
(JTA) — When Farida Trichine and 11 of her friends burst into a French supermarket in 2009 and began applying stickers with anti-Israel slogans to vegetables imported from the Jewish state, she expected to be escorted from the store by police. What she didn’t expect was to be convicted of inciting racial hatred and slapped…
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Breaking News ‘Quenelle’ Comic Dieudonne Told To Edit Viral YouTube Video
A Paris court has ordered the removal of sections of a YouTube video in which the comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala celebrates the quenelle. The Paris Court of Grands Instances on Wednesday issued its ruling on the video, which has been widely condemned as anti-Semitic. The judge ruled that one of the passages violated French law…
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Opinion Anti-Semitism? Self-Segregation Isn’t the Answer
Anti-Semitism in Europe is, once again, making headlines. In Paris, crowds sang, “Jews, France is not yours” at an anti-government protest last month. In Rome, a right-wing extremist mailed three pig heads to major Jewish sites, and Italy had its own anti-government protest — complete with anti-Semitic slogans — a couple of months ago. Plus,…
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Opinion Why All of France Should Shiver When Demonstrators Shout: ‘Jews Out’
Eighty years ago, on February 6, 1934, the French Republic had a near-death experience. On that wintry evening, tens of thousands of protestors, mostly young and mostly male, massed along the boulevards of Paris. Their aim was to bring down the Republic—or, as they called it, “la gueuse” or whore. In the eyes of contemporaries,…
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Breaking News ‘Quenelle’ Comic Dieudonne Banned From Britain
Britain said on Monday it had banned a French comedian accused of anti-Semitism, saying he would not be allowed to enter the country for public policy and security reasons. Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, 46, has been repeatedly fined for “hate speech” in his native France where local authorities in several towns have banned his shows as…
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Breaking News French Court Nixes Honor for 1982 Terrorist Killer of Israeli Diplomat
A French court nullified an honorary title conferred on the murderer of an Israeli diplomat. The administrative court of Montreuil on Thursday nullified the honorary residency that the suburb of Bagnolet conferred on Georges Abdallah, according to a report published on Friday by the Le Figaro daily. Abdallah, a pro-Palestinian militant, was sentenced to life…
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Breaking News French Students Sue YouTube Over ‘Year of Quenelle’
A Jewish student union petitioned a French court to order the removal of a YouTube video in which an anti-Semitic comedian celebrates the quasi-Nazi salute he invented. The petition filed this week with the Paris Court of Grands Instances by the Union of Jewish Students of France, or UEJF, concerns a video posted Dec. 31…
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Breaking News Man Arrested Over Photo of Quenelle At Toulouse Jewish School
French police arrested a man suspected of disseminating a photo of a quasi-Nazi salute being performed in front of a school where four Jews were murdered. The man, who was identified as Joe le Corbeau, was arrested Tuesday near Marseille in southern France, according to a report by the France3 news network. Police believe he…
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