The Holocaust and justice in France and Germany
In the battle against evil, roguery, and villainous men, the determination of an unlikely French and German couple to bring old Nazis to justice is an inspiration to us all. Real good is always marvellous and intoxicating
- 20 January 2018
Do you speak the language of Moliere?
Conservative regional councils in France are forcing workers on building sites to speak French -- the so called Moliere clause. But with around 10 percent of France's population being Muslim, demography is the real language of French politics
- 10 April 2017
France and the oppressive burkini
The debate about Muslim swimwear in France is instructive for all of us. The burkini is an affront to the values of modern France, and the West as a whole. It is oppressive to women, and a ban is the right way forward
- 16 August 2016
Shaking the status quo on women and Jews in Algeria
A number of Algerian writers and journalists are creating a stir both at home and abroad by taking on some of the most controversial subjects of our age, such as Islam and the position of Jews and women. It is an example to the whole Arab world
- 10 July 2016
France's shaky peace proposal for the Middle East
France may mean well in its plans for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, but Palestinian violence continues unabated even as (partly because?) the mainstream media blames Israel and whitewashes the Palestinians
- 4 February 2016
The French paradox and the Jews
The French paradox: Although 76,000 Jews were deported from France, how was it that 75 percent of Jews in France managed to survive death in the Nazi era while only 20 percent in the Netherlands, and 55 percent in Belgium were able to do so?
- 15 April 2015
Lethal anti-Semitism originated on the Left
The Marxist Left has a long and sordid history of anti-Semitism. The core belief was that Jews must cease to be Jews in order to be liberated. That has now been extended to virulent hostility to the Jewish State of Israel
- 2 April 2015
French Christian decency and Hamas evil
The story of the courageous and noble 5,000 inhabitants of the village Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in WWII stands in stark contrast to the horrors of Hamas's use of children as human shields
- 31 July 2014
French and British heroes fight radical evil
Hope and hatred. Brits and French. Car chases. Zyklon gas and the Holocaust. Heroes who paid with their lives. Honour to their memory, and an inspiration to all decent men and women today
- 5 July 2014
French ironies and the Jews
In 1791 France served up modernity's first act of Jewish emancipation. Today it is the country of Alain Finkielkraut. Yet it is also the country of Dreyfus, wartime collaboration with the Nazis, and the contemporary anti-Semitism of the far-Right, anti-Zionists, Dieudonné, and radical Islam
- 29 June 2014
The Guardian's problem with anti-Semitism
Such is the Guardian's fanatical obsession with Israel that when it comes to anti-semitism, a different set of rules applies. Apparently Jewish victims of prejudice don't deserve sympathy
- 17 May 2014
Where free speech ends and race hate begins
The eternal struggle between satire and censorship is a beautiful thing, but nobody has the right to provoke hatred, says Richard Ferrer, Editor of the Jewish News
- 7 February 2014
An Impossible standard: Anti-Semitic wolves and Israel
Who could dismiss the argument that if someone wants Jews to die, there’s no question: he has to be anti-Semitic? But they no longer dress up like Reinhard Heydrich (pictured)
- 6 January 2014
Asian immigrant's disgust at European anti-Semitism
With soccer star Nicolas Anelka in mind, the "quenelle" gesture popularized by French "performance artist" Dieudonné says something about anti-Semitism in Europe and why it should bother us, immigrants or not
- 3 January 2014
Sharia law advances in France. Halal in the prisons
As France advances to a 20-50 percent Muslim country over the next few decades, it should not be surprising that Islamic law is on the march. The times they are a-changin...
- 29 November 2013
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