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Wednesday, August 13th 2025 / Wednesday, August 13th 2025
“… the far left has fully embraced the Palestinian cause, while Marine Le Pen’s previously antisemitic far-right party has realigned itself as pro-Israel. These political reversals reflect not a newfound moral clarity but rather a reshuffling of ideological interests. French Jews, caught between both extremes, face rising hostility from both ideological camps.” — Alish […]
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Wednesday, August 13th 2025
Alish P. Joy The Week, Aug. 4, 2025 “We cannot normalize a society where hatred towards Jews is treated as political discourse.” France, home to Europe’s largest Jewish population, is once again wrestling with a surge in antisemitic sentiment that has alarmed political leaders, Jewish communities and rights groups alike. While antisemitism has long […]
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen WSJ, Aug. 6, 2025 “France’s humanitarian duty is real. But so is its duty to protect citizens—especially Jews, who are facing hostility without recent precedent.” A 25-year-old woman from Gaza strolled across the manicured campus of the Lille Institute of Political Studies late last month, smiling for French television cameras. Nour Atalla seemed to be the […]
Elizabeth Bryant DW, Aug. 1, 2025 “It’s an opportunistic decision. It cements the divorce with the Jewish community in France, considerably chills relations with Israel and the United States and reinforces Hamas.” Mohammed Iriqat has witnessed first-hand France’s shifting stance on the crisis in the Gaza Strip, from the taunts he once received for wearing a kaffiyeh, […]
Alan Kessel The Hill, Aug. 8, 2025 “… recognition is not a throwaway gesture. Once granted, it is almost impossible to reverse.” The geopolitics of the Middle East is shifting quickly, and not for the better. What began as a solo act of French diplomatic theatre has now become a chorus of ill-considered posturing. […]
Monday, July 28th 2025
“In my view, it is a political, moral and historical mistake.” — France MP Caroline Yadin Macron Has Put France on the Road to the Abyss: Starmer Could Do the Same with Britain: Jake Wallis Simons, The Telegraph, July 25, 2025 Macron Recognizes a Palestinian State. But to What End?: Roger Cohen, NY Times, July […]
Yitzhak Jerry Gershon Jerusalem Post, July 27, 2025 “Instead of pressuring Israel to endanger its survival, you – Mr. President – could lead a groundbreaking initiative: To designate a territory within French jurisdiction – perhaps in French Guiana, perhaps in a remote province, or even as an innovative political enclave – for the establishment of […]
’ Yossi Lempkowicz European Jewish Press, July 25, 2025 “The day of the pogrom on 7 October, during which terror expressed itself without limit, cannot be erected as the founding myth of any nation.” On Thursday, Macron wrote on social media: “Faithful to its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle […]
Roger Cohen NY Times, July 25, 2025 “Israel looks to the United States for its security, not to Europe.” In announcing French recognition of Palestinian statehood, President Emmanuel Macron of France expressed his growing outrage at Palestinian deaths and starvation in Gaza, but also incurred the hostility of the United States, Israel and much of the large […]
Tuesday, March 25th 2025 / Tuesday, March 25th 2025
Antisemitism in France: A Persistent Reality in 2024: Marc Knobel, ISGAP, Mar. 13, 2025 Jewish Students Face Increasing Hostility as Antisemitism Surges in France, New Report Finds: Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, Mar. 7, 2025 Former French PM: I Didn’t Agree with Every Decision Made by Macron: Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom, Mar. 21, 2025 Are Jewish […]
Wednesday, July 3rd 2024
Macron’s Implicit Endorsement Of ‘Antisemitic,’ ‘Pro-Hamas’ Far Left Shocks French Jews: Canaan Lidor, Times of Israel, July 1, 2024 French Election Becomes ‘Nightmare’ for Nation’s Jews: Roger Cohen, NY Times, June 20, 2024 French Far Right Works to Turn Election Win into Power: John Leicester, Sylvie Corbet and Barbara Surk, LA Times, July 1, 2024 As Macron Fades […]
Wednesday, July 3rd 2024 / Wednesday, July 3rd 2024
Canaan Lidor Times of Israel, July 1, 2024 ”For Macron, it’s about doing everything to stay in power. French Jews are being sacrificed first. Who will be next?” Only two years ago French President Emmanuel Macron received the unreserved endorsement of major Jewish community groups, which regarded his centrist policies and party as the […]
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