Pro-Palestinian campaigns have become a regular occurrence in France, which recently granted honorary citizenship to the assassin of Israeli Minister of Tourism, Rehavam Zeevi, and celebrated members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. These events have drawn heavy criticism from the Jewish community, who see them as justifying terrorism.
An Iranian screaming “Allahu Akbar” on Tuesday attacked a rabbi and his son with a knife as they were entering a synagogue in Paris for the morning prayer.
A delegation of imams from Israel was on a week-long official visit to France to meet with leaders of the Jewish and Muslim communities, Ynet news website reported.
United States Jewish leaders from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations have applauded France’s decision to support a proposal for the European Union to designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius paid tribute to Egypt as “a major power in the Middle East” as he sought to emphasise Europe’s desire for a two state solution to be realised to end Israeli- Palestinian conflict, in his meeting on Tuesday with his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Kamel Ali Amr in Paris.
The legal battle between Twitter and France’s Jewish Student Union continues, with the Union now suing the company and its director, Dick Costolo, for 50 million dollars.
France is ready to add Hezbollah's military wing to the European Union’s list of terror organizations, according to Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat published in London.