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Hasan Piker incites millions against Jews, and the silence is deafening - opinion

An influencer with a massive following sits in front of the camera, victim-blaming Jews, and the world stays silent

Influencer and political commentator Hasan Piker is introduced during a campaign rally in Wisconsin in August.
PRO-PALESTINE demonstration in Nancy, France, 2024

France: A license to kill

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Twelve Torah scrolls stolen in targeted antisemitic break-in at synagogue near Paris

The former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls during the Geopolitics Book Prize award ceremony on March 9, 2022, at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris, France

Former French Prime Minister joins CAM to lead Europe's fight against rising antisemitism


If Marine Le Pen wins in France, French Jews mull aliyah to Israel

Officials in Israel’s national institutions do not see any potential rise in interest in aliyah to Israel as a result of the possible political change.

Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and leader of French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) party, delivers a speech during a debate on migration at the National Assembly in Paris, France, October 7, 2019.

French elections: Why French Jewish leaders fear how French olim vote - analysis

Should they support the first Jewish candidate for president? Or rather vote for the moderate Emmanuel Macron?

French President Emmanuel Macron, candidate for his re-election in the 2022 French presidential election, attends a political campaign rally at Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, France, April 2, 2022.

President Herzog meets with French Jewish community leaders in Paris

The heads of the community shared with the president their campaign against those who slander the State of Israel and the rising antisemitism on the streets of France.

 Israeli President Isaac Herzog and French President Emmanuel Macron meeting, March 20, 2022.

'Inexplicable antisemitism' still a worldwide problem - Herzog in France

"It is truly heartbreaking to see so much human suffering and to witness the destruction of flourishing cities as they are transformed into battlefields," President Isaac Herzog said.

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Ohr Torah Jewish school in Toulouse, France.

France's Macron comes out against claims of Israeli apartheid

President Macron to French Jewish umbrella: "How dare we talk about apartheid in a state where Arab citizens are represented in government and positions of leadership and responsibility?"

FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron speaks during a video conference with international partners to discuss humanitarian aid for financially-strapped Lebanon, in Paris on December 2.

New play explores unease of French Jews in the face of antisemitism

Directed by Tony Award winner and two-time nominee David Cromer, the off-Broadway play began performances at Manhattan Theatre Club Jan. 11 and has extended to March 13th.

 Molly Ranson and Francis Benhamou star in “Prayer for the French Republic,” a new off-Broadway play at Manhattan Theatre Club.

French police arrest 16 teachers at Orthodox school for abusing students

At least 42 underage students from the yeshiva in a Paris suburb were placed at an undisclosed child welfare facility.

 The entrance to the Yeshivat Beth Yossef in Bussières, France.

French lawmaker says Éric Zemmour part of France's antisemitism problem

Zemmour has not announced a political run but is still polling among President Emmanuel Macron’s most serious challengers in this spring's presidential elections.

 Éric Zemmour in the salon du livre 2012.

France chief rabbi calls Jewish presidential candidate an ‘antisemite’

Zemmour, who has called Muslim immigrants “invaders” and in 2016 said that most drug dealers are Arab or African, is now running second and ahead of Marine Le Pen.

France's Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia

Bible scrolls from around the world - in pictures

A photo essay captures the stories of six Torah scrolls from around the world - Yemen, Siberia, France, Germany - which all ended up in Israel.

 THE WIESLOCH Torah scroll.