An atmosphere of insurgency hangs over France. Month after month, demonstrations against the legalization of gay marriage bring together hundreds of thousands of people, and mobilization is not weakening. Members of the government are harassed by disgruntled crowds during each trip they make. Bankrupt factories are stormed by angry workers who sometimes occupy the streets [...]
The widely commented decision of British physicist Stephen Hawking to boycott a conference in Israel attracts attention again on a piteous but persistent reality. Although unspeakable atrocities are committed every day on the planet, although civil war in Syria kills hundreds of people every week, although Iranian leaders continue to make genocidal anti-Semitic statements while [...]
8 MAI 2013 = 28 IYAR 5773 MAY 8th, 2013 = IYAR 28, 5773 68e ANNIVERSAIRE DE LA VICTOIRE SUR LE NAZISME, MAIS AUSSI YOM YERUSHALAYIM, 46e ANNIVERSAIRE DE LA LIBERATION DE JERUSALEM BOTH THE 68tn ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY OVER NAZISM, AND JERUSALEM DAY, 46th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF JERUSALEM Je n’ai vu [...]
Will Scandals Drown Democracy in France ? Not unlikely. Nothing can be more toxic for a government than scandals combined with economic and financial depression. That was the recipe for the French Revolution of 1789 : the Queen’s Necklace scandal (a silly archbishop attempting to have a stupendously expensive piece of jewellery purchased on State [...]
Is France poised for a new revolution ? That’s what the French ask themselves. There is a widespread feeling in France, less than one year after François Hollande’s election as president, and eleven months after a stunning victory of his socialist supporters at the National Assembly, that his administration is doomed. According to the latest [...]
What is taking shape could be a shift toward the end of the Jewish presence in Europe. Exactly one year ago, a killer entered the courtyard of a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, and shot in cold blood a rabbi and three children. He said he had wanted to kill more, and to perpetrate a [...]
The French president repeatedly says he will fight antisemitism. He cannot be forgiven for endorsing the nasty Stéphane Hessel as a national icon. Last Sunday, March 17, François Hollande, the socialist president of France, attended in person the ceremonies held in Toulouse for the first anniversary of what is now commonly refered to as the « [...]
Esteemed sir, Professor Riccardo di Segni, Chief Rabbi of Rome, On the day of my election as the Bishop of Rome and the universal guide of the Catholic Church, I send you my warm regards by announcing that the inauguration of my pontificate will be held on Tuesday, March 19. Having confidence in the protection [...]
Islam Times et The Financial Times, un journal britannique de renom, a indiqué que les services de sécurité britanniques avaient fait irruption dans un appartement de Londres à la suite des préoccupations sur le fait que la résidence a été utilisée pour des activités terroristes, ils n’ont simplement été utilisés pour de la prostitution. Vous [...]
Jews who can do so, leave Europe. Those who do not have the means to leave know they must be extremely careful: it is dangerous again to be a Jew in Europe. It is even more dangerous to be a Jew who supports Israel. In 2012, the number of anti-Semitic crimes in France sharply [...]
Many even have good consciences and feel they are on the side of The Good. If they would begin began to read some books on history, they will see that anti-Semites have always thought they were on the side of The Good. A few days ago, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the leading Jewish [...]
AT LAST!!! It’s the first time since I saw all those Arab/Islamist flags at the Place de la Bastille Paris, in celebration of the socialist election win in May 2012, that I can hope again: perhaps France is not lost after all. These are the first pictures (the big medias will ignore them at best [...]
Hussein Obama was re-elected with 303 electoral votes against 206 for Mitt Romney Those who weren’t waving American flags during the political rallies have won.” Conservative pundits will undoubtedly and deftly point out the Romney campaign’s strategic missteps. They’ll reminisce on how rare Obama bumper stickers were. And how few yard signs were to be [...]
Some French media don’t even care to report about Romney’s campaign. And they think they know about press freedom. PARIS – During breakfast this morning, I listened to RTL, one of France’s major radio channels (my wife’s choice, not mine). There was a quick report on the impending U.S. presidential election. “Yesterday, we followed Barack [...]