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Israeli security forces take position to protect Jewish visitors as they make their way to visit a Jewish religious site in the West Bank city of Hebron, November 3, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Why are foreign lawmakers aiding Israel’s attacks on Palestinian rights?

Two resolutions passed by the French parliament and U.S. Congress last week have troubling implications for Palestinians and their allies.

By Amjad Iraqi December 13, 2019

Women activisits hold up signs during an action that attempts to dismantle a barbed wire part of the gate of the Seperation Wall in Bil'in, as part of the weekly protest against the Separation Wall and the occupation, West Bank, August 14, 2009. Hundreds of Palestinians, Israeli, and international activists, responded to the Popular Committee's call to resist to participate in the action. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

We cannot let France silence its humanist Jews

Jewish anti-occupation activist Olivia Zemor faces a lawsuit from a pro-Israel group after calling for celebrities to boycott Israel. Here’s why I’m going to France to testify on her behalf. By Udi Aloni This week I am traveling to Paris to serve as an expert witness in court. In an unprecedented move, the French government…

By +972 Magazine March 18, 2018

Supporters of French president-elect Emmanuel Macron celebrate outside the Louvre in Paris, May 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

We’ll always have Paris

While the French gave the world a lesson in hope, democracy and standing up to fascism, the Israeli government advanced a childish, nationalistic law that declares: we are Jews, they are Arabs, we’re good, they’re bad. By Alon Mizrahi Europe and the world expect us to defend the spirit of the Enlightenment, under threat in…

By +972 Magazine May 8, 2017

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La Pen and Macron posters in France. (Marion Sindel)

Two bad choices for leftists in France

The hope of having a presidential candidate who advocates for genuine change vanished on Sunday, and reality slapped us in the face. We now have to choose between a cheery capitalist and a fascist with a shark’s smile. By Maxime Benatouil PARIS — Some traditions are meant to be kept intact. In spite of technological…

By +972 Magazine April 26, 2017

Illustrative photo of a woman in a burkini. (bellmon1/CC BY-NC 2.0)

Liberal Europe doesn’t understand: The burkini is a feminist issue

By banning the burkini, the French view themselves as the ones liberating veiled women from Muslim patriarchy. Instead they are only imposing a different form of oppression. By Eiad Shalabne The images of French policemen handing out tickets to Muslim women in religious garb on the beaches of Nice this past week reflect a depressing interpretation of the essence of…

By +972 Magazine August 26, 2016

Imprisoned PLO leader Marwan Barghouti (SP Foto/CC BY NC-ND 2.0)

Marwan Barghouti is planning a comeback — from behind bars

He may be serving five consecutive life sentences in an Israeli prison but Marwan Barghouti is the only leader who has a chance to succeed Mahmoud Abbas and unite the Palestinian people. This is how he plans on doing it.

By Menachem Klein April 16, 2016

French soldiers capture FLN fighters in Algeria, 1958. (Author unknown)

No, Mr. Netanyahu, answers to terrorism are not all the same

The prime minister compares Israel’s predicament with the Palestinians to France’s current one with jihadists, but the true comparison is to France’s struggle with Algeria in the 1950s and early 1960s. In Paris early this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drove home a message he’s been delivering for decades: “Israel supports Europe in its fight…

By Larry Derfner January 16, 2015

Protesters hold vigil for the slain journalists of Charlie Hebdo, Strasbourg, France, January 7, 2015. (photo: Claude TRUONG-NGOC CC BY-SA 3.0)

France must not push Muslims into the arms of extremists

The terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket were well-trained, spoke French and knew their actions would play into the hands of France’s Islamophobic right. Let’s not give them what they’re after. By Yossi Dahan As Israel’s news outlets covered the terrorist attacks in Paris, we watched how our analysts and correspondence suddenly…

By Haokets January 11, 2015

Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo: Activestills.org)

The real reason Bibi wants French Jews to move to Israel

By calling on France’s Jews to move to Israel, Netanyahu is promoting a worldview in which there is no national conflict, no occupation and no Palestinian people. There are only Jews and radical Muslims. The terror attacks in France have caused Netanyahu to, once again, conflate his role as prime minister with his imaginary role as supreme…

By Orly Noy January 11, 2015

Stock photo of French marines patrolling in Paris. (Photo by Kavalenkau / Shutterstock.com)

France needs no one’s advice on fighting Islamist terror

A look at the facts. In Israel and America, France has this reputation of being the ultimate effete, left-liberal country – so politically correct, so multiculti, so morally relativist and scared to death of offending any minority, especially Muslims, that it’s incapable of dealing with the threat of jihadist terror. Israelis and Americans (led of…

By Larry Derfner January 11, 2015

France Decapitated (again)

[Completely off topic] The New York Times’ Roger Cohen recently traveled to Paris and didn’t like what he saw. His latest op-ed is titled “France Decapitated,” and it predicts a dark future for The Republic. My favorite Francophile, former Haaretz Editor in Chief Dov Alfon, who now publishes a great Hebrew-language magazine called Alaxon, adds some…

By Noam Sheizaf July 10, 2014

Expansion and building of new settlement units of Beit Aryeh on the land of the West Bank village of Abud, near Ramallah, September 13, 2013. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

What’s the significance of a ‘settlement-free Europe?’

The direct effects of official sanctions against Israeli settlements are limited. But the momentum created by such moves inspires and pushes private actors to take their own steps in the same direction. France on Tuesday published a warning to its citizens against doing business in or with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Golan Heights…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man June 25, 2014

Migrants in the "Afghan camp" set up a fire to warm themselves. Tomorrow they face the prospect of being without any shelter. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: French authorities threaten to destroy migrant camps

Migrants in Calais, France occupy a food distribution center to protest Paris’s threat to evict them from their camps. Groups of migrants set up camps on the coast in hopes of sneaking across the channel to the UK. By Anne Paq/Activestills.org Despite rainy weather, hundreds of migrants occupied a food distribution center in the French…

By Activestills May 30, 2014