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Are French courts unwilling to call out antisemitism, recognize Jew-hatred? - analysis

In December 2025, an Algerian nanny was sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for poisoning a French Jewish family, but the court ruled this was not an act of antisemitism.

French flag and court gavel in this illustration taken November 5, 2025.
This photograph shows a French flag fluttering with the La Defense business district in the background skyline, in Paris, on December 5, 2025.

Jewish boy tripped, punched, held at knifepoint on way to Paris synagogue

 People block the entrance to Ashdod port during a protest against aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip, in Ashdod, southern Israel, February 1, 2024.

French judges issue legal summons for French-Israel activists accused of 'genocide' - interview

A French National Police officer, wearing a body-worn camera, stands in Paris, France, December 10, 2025.

'Deeply alarming': Jewish primary school in Paris vandalized, CCTV damaged


'We will f*** you like Hitler did,' French highschoolers reveal experiences of antisemitism

“The reality is, almost every Jewish student in France has experienced antisemitism,” the President of Union of High School Students in France told the Post.

 A university student of Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris) walks down the street wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh to demonstrate against Israel's war in the Gaza Strip, in Paris, on October 8, 2024.

Concern among French Jews: 'Macron is playing into Hamas' hands'


'Macron is an unwavering ally to the Jewish people,' says WJC President Ronald S. Lauder

“He has been an unwavering ally to the Jewish people, especially during these challenging times,” Lauder said.

FRANCE’S PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron speaks during a music festival in the courtyard of the Élysée presidential palace in Paris, on Friday. Macron has opened a Pandora’s box that leaves French citizens disoriented, worried, and angry, says the writer.

CRIF: After France terrorist attack, we need to change perception of antisemitism's sources

Following the La Grande-Motte attack, CRIF’s Yonathan Arfi calls on France to recognize and combat rising modern antisemitism.

 Yonathan Arfi, President of the Representative Council of the French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), attends a demonstration to protest against anti-Semitism in front of the City Hall of Courbevoie, near Paris.  June 21, 2024.

French students return to campus wary of renewed anti-Israel activism

Since the October 7 Massacre, Jewish students had been deeply troubled, and they faced rising antisemitism not just on campus but in broader society.

A general view of the occupied building of the Sciences Po University by masked youths in support of Palestinians in Gaza, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Paris, France, France, April 26, 2024.

Suspect arrested for terror attack outside French synagogue causing car explosion, one injured

A French police officer was injured on Saturday when a blazing car exploded in the car park of a synagogue in the coastal town of La Grande-Motte.

 Reported footage of the suspect who perpetrated a terror attack in a synagogue in France, wrapped in a Palestinian flag and armed with a pistol.

‘Hitler was right': French Jews harassed on Paris, Montpellier metros

The Paris Police Prefecture said on Thursday that it was looking for a man who verbally harassed an Orthodox Jewish family.

 Police officer patrols on the Trocadero square in front of the Olympic rings displayed on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic games in Paris, France, June 7, 2024.

'It pushes us more': French Jews tell 'Post' of how antisemitism forced them to make aliyah

The Jerusalem Post spoke to four families making aliyah from France.

 French Jews arrive in Israel for Aliyah, August 1, 2024.

Defiant of Iranian threat, over 150 French Jews immigrate to Israel

The Jewish Agency and Aliyah Ministry said that over 7,000 new Aliyah applications had been opened in France in 2024 compared to 1,200 the year prior.

 French Jews arrive in Israel for Aliyah, August 1, 2024.

Paris Grande Synagogue treasurer: ‘French Jews must stay in France’ - interview

Levy explained that many of the fears around rising antisemitism were exaggerated, and said that he had never encountered antisemitism himself.

 Great Synagogue in Paris