France
On Nov. 13, 2015, a series of Islamist terrorist attacks shook Paris: 130 people were killed and hundreds others injured in coordinated shootings and a suicide bombing that hit the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France stadium, and several bars and restaurants, all in the name of the Islamic State.
“It’s sad and disconcerting to be in a situation where a member of the French parliament receives death threats because he is Jewish and a friend of Israel,” said French Jewish Parliament member Meyer Habib.
Psychiatrists say Kobili Traoré, who killed neighbor Sarah Halimi in Paris because she was Jewish, is not responsible for his actions • French Jews outraged, say evaluation designed to avoid trial and obscure anti-Semitic motive.
The French Agency for Development supports French organizations that disseminate blatant anti-Israeli rhetoric, and that are active in prohibited discriminatory boycott campaigns against Israel
Following Jewish outcry, Paris suburb removes signs renaming street for ‘Nakba’
Israel’s ambassador to France accuses Bezons mayor of “supporting Palestinian terrorism and inciting hate” • Suburb’s Communist mayor previously named convicted Palestinian terrorist who murdered Israeli minister an “honorary resident.”
Jews in France and elsewhere in Europe now face not only traditional anti-Semitism from the far-right, but also from far-left parts of European society and from Muslim immigrant communities. The focal point is a “biased view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
French survey finds 38 percent think the very existence of Israel nourishes anti-Semitism, 54 percent say Zionism is international plot • French parliamentarian: If the majority of the French public believe that Zionism is a global conspiracy, then “France is in big trouble.”
“We demand that the fight against this democratic failure that is anti-Semitism becomes a national cause before it’s too late. Before France is no longer France,” reads the manifesto co-signed by several politicians from the left and right.
The rally, from the Place de la Nation to the victim’s home in the 11th arrondissement (district) of Paris, was marred by the presence of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen, leaders of the extreme left and extreme right.
The umbrella representative body of French Jewish organizations has called for a March 28 rally in Paris in memory of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish woman brutally killed in her apartment.
Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, 85, who was murdered Friday in her apartment in Paris, was the 11th person murdered in brutal acts of anti-Semitism in the past 12 years.
A driver and security guard tied to the French Consulate in Jerusalem allegedly smuggled weapons that were then sold to illegal arms dealers.
