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French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

August 27, 2025, 11:19 am

French president tells Netanyanhu that continued Gaza war is gift to antisemites

Macron responded in a letter to the Israeli PM after he claimed French recognition of Palestine would fuel 'antisemitic fire'

By Lee Harpin

November 10, 2021, 8:41 pm

Teenager arrested after waving large knife in front of French Jewish school

Incident took place outside outside College/Lycee Juive de Lyon, with the suspect allegedly hurling marbles at students in the school and calling them 'dirty Jew'

By JTA

September 18, 2021, 9:26 am

Jewish man assaulted in France after confronting men who called him ‘dirty Jew’

Five men ganged up on the victim who was wearing a kippah and suffered minor injuries

By JTA

Imam Mohamed Tatai gives a sermon at the Grand Mosque in Toulouse, France, on December 15, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube) via Times of Israel

September 18, 2021, 9:17 am

Court acquits imam of incitement charges for quoting text to kill Jews

Mohamed Tatai, the rector of the Great Mosque of Toulouse, had no desire to incite hatred in his sermon from 2017 a tribunal found

By JTA

June 13, 2021, 10:23 am

French court sentences Holocaust denier to five years for making death threats

The sentence, for promoting terrorism and making death threats, is among the harshest in recent years in France over such offences.

By JTA

In Paris, thousands took to the streets to demand justice. (Photo: Reuters)

April 28, 2021, 10:32 am

French-Jewish judge resigns to protest ruling in Sarah Halimi affair

Jack Broda of the Tribunal of Commerce of Nancy stood down saying he 'could not believe' the outcome of the ruling and his resignation was 'accepted and regretted'

By JTA

April 19, 2021, 2:34 pm

Delivery man who refused to serve French Jews deported to native Algeria

Immigration authorities sent 19-year-old worker, who was illegally living in France, back to his country of birth amid the incident

By JTA

Police arrest a man armed with a knife outside a Jewish school and kosher market in Marseille, France, March 5, 2021 (video screenshot via Times of Israel)

March 5, 2021, 3:45 pm

Jewish school guards overpower knife-wielding man outside French kosher store

Incident on Friday morning in Marseille took place near the Yavne Jewish school and Cache Food bakery

By JTA

Police car in Paris (Credit: Andre Bulber, Flickr)

February 20, 2021, 3:54 pm

French Jewish policeman finds swastikas and ‘dirty Jew’ scrawled on locker

The officer, who is part of an elite unit at the Vélizy-Villacoublay municipality near of Paris, filed a police complaint and the incident is the subject of an internal probe

By JTA

February 20, 2021, 2:05 pm

Hate mail to French-Jewish MP tells her to ‘prepare for the camps’

Yaël Braun-Pivet, who is part of Emmanuel Macron's centrist LREM party received antisemitic remarks in a private email

By JTA

February 6, 2021, 6:55 pm

Paris City Council adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism

Local authority adopts version of international definition adopted by numerous governments, including the UK's

By JTA

Plaque is affixed on the village school of Le Chambon sur Lignon and recalls the solidarity attitude of the whole population towards Jews during their WWII persecution, allowing several thousands of lives to be saved. (Wikipedia/ Author Pensées de Pascal / Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0))

January 31, 2021, 3:04 pm

Jewish man leaves £1.75m to French town that hid him from Nazis

Erich Schwam, who died at 90 on Christmas Day, willed his estate to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, the mountain town where his Jewish family hid for two years

By JTA

January 11, 2021, 3:56 pm

Two French kosher restaurant owners claim food courier refused to serve Jews

At least one Deliveroo worker reportedly said 'I don’t serve Jews' when asked to ferry meals to Jewish customers

By JTA

Vehicle of Paris Police Prefecture. (Wikipedia/Author Kevin.B/ Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

December 13, 2020, 11:59 am

French man who stabbed neighbour to ‘kill a Jew’ declared unfit to stand trial

20-year-old stabber, who has not named, told a judge that robots told him to “kill a Jew, who was the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler” before the attack in April 2019 in Bourdon

By JTA

October 27, 2020, 11:19 am

Turkey’s president invokes Shoah in berating France’s crackdown on Islamism

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: 'Relocations, inquisitions and genocides towards members of different religions is not a practice that is foreign to Europe'

By JTA

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