https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed President Emmanuel Macron Friday denounced what he described as an "antisemitic hydra" that had crept into "every crack" of society as he commemorated Ilan Halimi, a French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006. https://www.thelocal.fr/20260213/macron-denounces-antisemitic-hydra-as-he-honours-2006-jewish-murder-victim Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:52:49 +0100 macron-denounces-antisemitic-hydra-as-he-honours-2006-jewish-murder-victim French Jewish groups and Israeli officials protested Tuesday after the mayor of a Paris suburb renamed a street to honour the thousands of Palestinians forced from their homes during Israel's creation in 1948. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180613/jewish-groups-protest-after-paris-suburb-renames-street-in-honour-of-palestinians Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:19:37 +0200 jewish-groups-protest-after-paris-suburb-renames-street-in-honour-of-palestinians Four men and one woman were on Friday charged in France over a brutal attack on a Jewish family in a Paris suburb, judicial sources said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171202/five-charged-in-france-for-attacking-jewish-family Sat, 02 Dec 2017 04:33:42 +0100 five-charged-in-france-for-attacking-jewish-family Police have launched an investigation after two Jewish men, wearing kippas, said they were attacked with a hacksaw following a heated exchange with their attackers in the Paris suburbs. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170224/two-jews-wearing-kippas-assaulted-with-hacksaw-in-paris-suburbs Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:48:09 +0100 two-jews-wearing-kippas-assaulted-with-hacksaw-in-paris-suburbs Another 5,000 French Jews emigrated to Israel last year, figures showed Monday, continuing a trend that has seen tens of thousands quit the country after a series of attacks targeting the community. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170109/5000-more-jews-leave-france-for-israel Mon, 09 Jan 2017 18:24:13 +0100 5000-more-jews-leave-france-for-israel A Jewish teacher who pretended to have been the victim of anti-Semitic violence by supporters of the Islamic State group days after November's attacks in Paris received a six-month suspended sentence on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160513/jail-term-for-french-teacher-who-invented-isis-attack Fri, 13 May 2016 13:23:03 +0200 jail-term-for-french-teacher-who-invented-isis-attack A synagogue in central Marseille has been bought by an Islamic cultural organization for €400,000. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160427/a-synagogue-in-marseilles-will-become-a-mosque-religion-islam-muslim-jewish-judaism-france Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:26:06 +0200 a-synagogue-in-marseilles-will-become-a-mosque-religion-islam-muslim-jewish-judaism-france A row over whether Jews in France should wear the kippah has divided community leaders, with politicians also weighing in on the issue in the aftermath of a violent anti-Semitic attack. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160113/kippah-row-jews-france-row-safety Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:49:41 +0100 kippah-row-jews-france-row-safety A Jewish politician who was found dead in his home in the suburbs of Paris on Tuesday was stabbed and beaten, his relatives have reportedly said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160112/jewish-politician-found-dead-in-paris-home Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:55:12 +0100 jewish-politician-found-dead-in-paris-home The top Jewish leader in Marseille on Tuesday urged Jews in the southern French port city to refrain from wearing skullcaps "until better days" after a teacher was hurt in a machete attack by a Kurdish teenager. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160112/marseille-jews-warned-against-wearing-skullcaps Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:32:39 +0100 marseille-jews-warned-against-wearing-skullcaps A Turkish teenager who stabbed a Jewish teacher with a machete on Monday in Marseille told police he was attacking in the name of the terror group Isis, a prosecutor said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160111/marseille-teen-attacks-jewish-teacher-with-machete Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:46:33 +0100 marseille-teen-attacks-jewish-teacher-with-machete Despite an unprecedented recent rise in both Islamophobic and anti-Semitic acts in France, new research suggests the vast majority of French people hold positive views towards the minorities. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150603/french-more-positive-to-jews-and-muslims Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:22:34 +0200 french-more-positive-to-jews-and-muslims A Jewish man who wore a kippah for a day in Paris to highlight anti-Semitism has released a video showing how he was cursed at, spat on, and followed as he spent a day walking around the French capital with a hidden camera. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150216/video-paris-jewish-hidden-camera-fear-loathing Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:19:00 +0100 video-paris-jewish-hidden-camera-fear-loathing There were twice as many anti-Semitic incidents recorded in France in 2014 compared to the year before, the country's main Jewish group announced on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150127/frances-anti-semitic-acts-doubled-in-2014 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:28:00 +0100 frances-anti-semitic-acts-doubled-in-2014 Malian national Lassana Bathily was awarded French citizenship on Tuesday for his role in helping to save hostages during the siege at a Jewish supermarket that left four people dead. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150120/hostage-hero-set-to-receive-french-citizenship Tue, 20 Jan 2015 23:49:00 +0100 hostage-hero-set-to-receive-french-citizenship A Frenchman was ordered into detention on Friday as investigators probed his ties to Mehdi Nemmouche, a compatriot charged with killing four people at Brussels' Jewish Museum in May. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141213/frenchman-probed-over-links-to-museum-deaths Sat, 13 Dec 2014 12:01:00 +0100 frenchman-probed-over-links-to-museum-deaths French police handed over Mehdi Nemmouche to their counterparts in Brussels on Tuesday. Nemmouche is suspected of shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in the Belgian capital in May. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140729/france-hands-over-jewish-museum-gunman Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:04:38 +0200 france-hands-over-jewish-museum-gunman Mehdi Nemmouche, the French Islamist arrested on suspicion of a triple murder at the Brussels Jewish Museum, is to contest being handed over by France to Belgium, his lawyer said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140605/brussels-shooting-suspect-to-fight-french-handover-to-belgium Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:55:00 +0200 brussels-shooting-suspect-to-fight-french-handover-to-belgium From his kosher store in Paris, David Slama has watched the rise of a violent "new anti-Semitism" for more than a decade. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140605/europes-jews-grapple-with-new-anti-semitism Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:55:19 +0200 europes-jews-grapple-with-new-anti-semitism A new global survey on anti-Semitism made uncomfortable reading for France where more than one in three people were found to hold anti-Semitic views. However some experts say the figure exaggerates the problem of anti-Semitism in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140515/one-in-three-french-deemed-anti-semitic Thu, 15 May 2014 14:03:00 +0200 one-in-three-french-deemed-anti-semitic