Terrorism in france

France’s double standards on Israel is a betrayal of moral values - opinion

Macron’s diplomacy faces backlash over France’s approach to Iran, Hezbollah, and Israel’s defense.

|ByDAVID BEN-BASAT
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a Greece–France Economic Forum at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, last week.
A member of the Jewish community views the scene of an antisemitic arson attack through a makeshift fence in London, a day after volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organization were set on fire.

New jihadist group or Iranian proxy? Ashab al-Yamin attacks raise alarm across Europe - analysis

The terror group may be another case of the Islamic regime employing criminals, youths, and third-country individuals to impose its will abroad.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
A protester holds a placard reading "we are Muslims and proud of it" during a rally against Islamophobia, in Paris on May 11, 2025.

France bans annual gathering of Muslims in Paris amid terrorism fears, security risks

The decision comes after France increased security at sensitive sites across Paris after a foiled bomb attack on Bank of America's offices last weekend, in the wake of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM, REUTERS
Private security members work outside Bank of America’s Paris offices, after French anti-terrorism prosecutors opened an investigation into attempted destruction by fire or other dangerous means in Paris, France, March 30, 2026.

France suspects link to pro-Iranian group in foiled BofA Paris plot

HAYI, which stands for Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, or Movement of the Companions of the Right Hand of Islam, posted a video on social media targeting European Jewish communities.

|ByREUTERS

French PM vows to combat 'slow-burn' threat of radical Islam

"Islamist radicalization is a threat to our society, and not just when it leads to violence. It's a challenge every time the law of the state is respected only if compatible with religious tenets."

FEBRUARY 23, 2018ByREUTERS
French Prime Minister Philippe talks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich.

Facebook controversy from popular French-Muslim singer

The French singer's social media claimed that the French state, not jihadists, were respinsible for terrorism.

FEBRUARY 7, 2018ByJTA
French-Muslim singer Mennel Ibtissem performing 'Hallelujah' on the 'The Voice France.'

French Jews protest release of Paris synagogue bombing suspect

Diab has denied any connection to the 1980 bombing of the synagogue on Copernic Street, which killed four people.

JANUARY 13, 2018ByJTA
Accused synagogue arsonist Hassan Diab enters a Parisian courthouse, January 2018

France remembers Paris terror victims three years after attacks

During a three-day killing spree in January 2015, gunmen killed reporters and illustrators at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, police officers and shoppers at a Jewish supermarket.

JANUARY 7, 2018ByREUTERS
THE STATUE at the Place de la République in Paris is seen featured with a giant cardboard pencil reading ‘I am Charlie’ in 2015 after the attack against the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ magazine

Two years after France's 9/11, is the Fifth Republic turning into Israel?

Terrorism is not a new phenomenon for France, but the 2015 attacks became a tipping point.

NOVEMBER 22, 2017ByEMILY BOULTER & TAMIR LIBEL
Terror in Paris

Report: Mother of Toulouse killer received public housing to be near son’s trial

Abdelkadar Merah is accused of helping his younger brother, Mohammed, kill four Jews and three soldiers in 2012.

OCTOBER 14, 2017ByJTA
Zoulikha Aziri, the mother of gunman Islamist militant Mohammed Merah, who killed 7 people in 2012, leaves during the trial of her son Abdelkader Merah, who stands accused of complicity in the series of shootings committed by his brother, at the courthouse in Paris, France, October 2, 2017.

French PM outlines strategy to combat ‘shameful’ antisemitism

French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced “a new plan to combat antisemitism” during a speech at Paris’s Buffault Synagogue.

OCTOBER 4, 2017ByEYTAN HALON
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe attends a ceremony at the Buffault Synagogue in Paris, France, October 2, 2017.

Brother of Toulouse Jewish school killer goes on trial in France

Mohamed Merah's older brother, Abdelkader, has been remanded in custody since the attacks that killed seven people in 2012.

OCTOBER 3, 2017ByEYTAN HALON
Mohamed Merah

Six ways to thwart a terrorist attack

Lonewolf-style attacks have presented a new - but not unpreventable - threat.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017ByLIOR AKERMAN
Police work near the scene where French soliders were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, France

Bankrupting Terrorism - One Lawsuit at a Time

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017ByDANNY SWIBEL
The Jerusalem Post