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French police arrest five people after attack on Jewish family in Paris suburb

Two months after an attack on a Jewish family in their home in the Paris suburb of Livry-Gargan, five suspects were arrested by police on Tuesday.

Leading French socialist booted from party over antisemitic tweet

A top official in France’s Socialist Party was expelled on Tuesday days after tweeting an antisemitic image targeting President Emmanuel Macron.

Wave of antisemitic graffiti in Marseille

A number of antisemitic slogans were discovered over the weekend in the centre of the southern French city of Marseille.

French courts punish promoters of antisemitic hate speech

Amid vocal protests by leaders of French Jewry on the judiciary’s handling of antisemitic crimes, French courts made a series of tough rulings on inciters to hatred of Jews.

French socialists seek to expel leading activist after antisemitic tweet

France’s centre-left Socialist party are seeking to expel a member of its national executive who tweeted an antisemitic photomontage of the country’s president Emmanuel Macron, controlled by three well-known Jews.

French court fines teacher for antisemitic statements

An English teacher in a Paris school was fined 1,500 euros on Thursday by a court in the capital for writing on social media that Jews prepared and organised the Shoah.

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