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National Assembly members come to the defense of Yael Braun-Pivet, whose family came to France to flee the Nazis in the 1930s.
“It’s an extremely strong secular offensive ... but necessary for the republic,” says French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
“The meeting is part of an ongoing policy review. It is not decisional,” posted White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Twitter.
The Eiffel Tower, Paris. Credit: Pixabay.
Paris adopts IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
The decision was taken by the Council of Paris, headed by Mayor Anne Hidalgo.
Assadolah Assad, who served in the Iranian embassy in Vienna, was convicted of transporting explosives for an attack on leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran at the group’s annual rally near Paris in 2018.
Granit’s Paris eatery, Shabour, opened a year-and-a-half ago, and became a hit with both customers and critics.
The Israelite Consistory of the Bas-Rhin region and the restaurants involved labeled the refusal “openly anti-Semitic discrimination.”
The French Development Agency focuses on “on climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urban development, health and governance.”
French interior minister is “deeply shocked” by the online assault that erupted after April Benayoum, 21, reveals her Israeli heritage.
Precautions would have to be taken and the event would be shorter than usual, but it would indeed take place.
The European powers warn that it “risks compromising the opportunity for a return to diplomacy with the incoming U.S. administration.”
Despite the U.S. sanctions imposed in October, Germany’s Bundesbank kept open multibillion-euro deposit accounts for Iranian banks to facilitate trade with the Islamic Republic.