By JNi.Media
A lot is expected to happen on Monday, May Day: union members and protesters are marching against Le Pen in Paris, and the Front National party is holding its annual gathering to honor Joan of Arc.
By JNi.Media
Out of the 150,000 Jews living in France, 76,000 were murdered after French authorities shipped them away.
French politician Marine Le Pen wants to outlaw the Hijab.
The French Jewish group CRIF said the defeat of the National Front brings an "opportunity to effectively address the causes of growth of extremes."
By JTA
Anti-radical Islam begins to trump anti-Semitism.
By Soeren Kern
In Paris, the Union of Islamic Organizations congress was turned into a platform for Muslim anti-Semitism.
By JTA
A French mayor from the far-right National Front party evicted from city-owned offices an anti-racism group inspired by the Dreyfus trial. Steeve Briois, who was elected last month to run the town of Henin-Beaumont, ordered the Human Rights League, or LDH, to clear out of its workspace last week, LDH President Pierre Tartakowsky told JTA. […]
By Shalom Bear
While definitely offensive to Muslims, it's not clear Le Pen even had Jews in mind when removing pork-free options from the school's menus.
By Soeren Kern
Instead of integration, "parallel societies are forming that continuously distance themselves from each other."
By JTA
French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen said she supports a ban on wearing yarmulkes in public in addition to a ban on Muslim headscarves. “Obviously, if the veil is banned, the yarmulke [should be] banned in public as well," the French daily Le Monde quoted Le Pen, leader of the National Front, as saying in […]
By JTA
A lawyer for Marine Le Pen said the leader of the French far right will sue French-Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy for libel. Wallerand de Saint-Just said he would submit a libel suit on behalf of Le Pen, president of the National Front party, to the Paris Magistrate’s Court next week. In an article originally published […]
Francois Fillon: Jews and Muslims should reconsider "ancestral traditions...We live in a modern society."