France

57% of French survey respondents don’t know how many Jews died during the Holocaust

The rate was higher among those under the age of 38.

France will create hate crimes office after desecration of Jewish cemetery

“Anti-Semitism is a crime and we will fight it … until our dead can sleep in peace,” French President Emmanuel Macron said.

French-Jewish pundit says he supports general who killed Muslims and Jews

Eric Zemmour, a strident critic of Islam, said he was merely arguing that immigrants should identify with France rather than their countries of origin.

Ideas

How the late French president Jacques Chirac started France’s reckoning with the Holocaust

The Jo Goldenberg Restaurant in Paris, France on June 12, 2005. (David Monniaux/Wikimedia Commons)

Global

In the ’80s, French secret service promised not to pursue Palestinian terrorists who killed Jews in Paris

Global

French city official received a swastika birthday cake

Israel

Outgoing French ambassador to US calls Israel apartheid state

Ideas

The world mourned for Notre Dame. But France still struggles to accept French Jews and Muslims.

Global

French police say terror suspect was inspired by killings at a Toulouse Jewish school

Global

Auschwitz Museum director awarded highest honor from France

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