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Why are French Jews silent on the occupation?
In the world’s third largest Jewish community, a monopolistic establishment and a fraught discourse on antisemitism leaves no space for criticism of Israel.
By
Deborah Leter
August 3, 2022
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
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…
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March 18, 2018
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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…
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May 8, 2017
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…
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April 26, 2017
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…
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August 26, 2016
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
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
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…
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Haokets
January 11, 2015
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…
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Orly Noy
January 11, 2015
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…
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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…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 10, 2014
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…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
June 25, 2014
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