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Are French courts unwilling to call out antisemitism, recognize Jew-hatred? - analysis

In December 2025, an Algerian nanny was sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for poisoning a French Jewish family, but the court ruled this was not an act of antisemitism.

French flag and court gavel in this illustration taken November 5, 2025.
 French police officers stand guard in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France on November 14, 2015. Photo by Laurence Geai/Flash90

French Muslim boy jailed for rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl has sentence commuted in retrial

Journalist Élisa Serret.

'Jews control US politics, Hollywood, big cities,' Canadian reporter says on live broadcast

 French police officers stand guard in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France on November 14, 2015. Photo by Laurence Geai/Flash90

French resort manager arrested for antisemitism after denying entry to 150 Israeli kids


Jewish woman targeted in Paris rape-robbery told: You Jews always have money

The 19-year-old woman was raped while another assailant withdrew money from one of the victims' bank accounts at a nearby ATM.

French police patrol in the street in the Marais Jewish quarter in Paris

Galliano hired by Paris fashion house after anti-Semitic rant brought long absence

French fashion house Maison Martin Margiela hires British national who was fired by Christian Dior in 2011 after he was filmed making anti-Semitic statements in public.

John Galliano

Anti-Semitic expression in France no longer in hiding, says Jewish communal leader

Joel Mergui: Haters are not afraid of the police or prison; "the jihadism we’re seeing today is modern-day Nazism"

Joel Mergui et Shlomo Amar

French Jewish leader: Anti-Israelism is the new anti-Semitism

The same hatred that Jihadists direct against Israel is directed against the Jews of France, says head of French Jewry umbrella organization.

Joel Margi (L), the President of Consistoire, the umbrella organization of French Jewry with President Reuven Rivlin.

French FM: France's Jews are living in fear

France has both the largest Jewish and Muslim populations in Europe and flare-ups in the Middle East often add to tensions between the communities.

ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS display Palestinian flags at the Place de la Bastille in Paris.

The Dreyfus Affair revisited

Some 40 broadsides, posters and videos documenting the drama are now on display at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild depicted as an octopus (a symbol of greed and power) with an eye-patch giving the appearance of a pirate mask.