French Jews

French police suppress a demonstration in Paris in solidarity with the Palestinian people and against the Israeli assault on Gaza, October 14, 2023. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

France steps up crackdown on Palestine solidarity amid Gaza war

French authorities have banned demonstrations in support of Gaza, arrested protesters, and moved to dissolve several Palestine advocacy groups.

By Deborah Leter October 31, 2023

Tsedek! member Simon Assoun. (Courtesy)

For these French Jews, anti-racism cannot succeed without anti-Zionism

Facing a largely right-wing and Zionist French-Jewish community, Tsedek! is advocating a decolonial vision to combat state racism at home and in Israel-Palestine.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth August 14, 2023

Yael Lerer. (Rabeea Eid)

The Israeli bringing the fight for justice in Israel-Palestine to France’s parliament

After years in the Israeli radical left, Yael Lerer wants to replace a Netanyahu ally as the representative of French citizens in the eastern Mediterranean.

By Deborah Leter March 21, 2023

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Salah Hammouri speaks to the press and supporters at Paris Charles de Galle Airport, France, after having been exiled by Israel, December 18, 2022. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Exile of Palestinian lawyer reignites struggle over France’s Israel policy

Israel's expulsion of Salah Hammouri has energized France's Palestine solidarity movement — but backlash is spurring antisemitism smears.

By Deborah Leter December 29, 2022

A rally in support of Israel, Marseille, France, July 27, 2014. (Alain Azria/CC BY 2.0)

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

Relatives of Palestinian baby Ali Saad Dawabsha grieve after he was murdered in an arson attack on a Palestinian house, Duma, West Bank, July 31. 2015. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2015

You, our readers, voted with your clicks. The following is a list of the most popular articles we published this past year. By +972 Magazine Staff 25. Photo exhibit challenges Zionism’s most popular myth Using haunting aerial photographs of the Negev Desert, American artist Fazal Sheikh challenges the notion that the desert was an unpopulated,…

By +972 Magazine December 16, 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

Is Europe seeing a new wave of Jew-hatred?

While the murders in Toulouse are evidence that anti-Semitism certainly subsists in Europe, there is no reason to believe that European Jews need to be saved. In fact, the reality is that Jews are increasingly open and confident about expressing their Jewish identity. By Dov Waxman Reading much of the media commentary in Israel and…

By +972 Magazine March 25, 2012