French Jews

A rally in support of Israel, Marseille, 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
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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
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  4. From my balcony in Gaza, the wailings of war return
  5. How a resurrected militia is defying Israeli and Palestinian rulers