After weeks of resisting calls to impose restrictions on the weekly anti-Israel marches coursing through London, this week the Metropolitan Police Service finally agreed that enough is enough, and ordered
Vincent Reynouard, a French Holocaust-denier, will be extradited from the UK after his application for leave to appeal was rejected on Friday. Mr Reynouard, 54, a convicted Holocaust-denier, was awaiting
A court in Scotland has granted an extradition request for the convicted Holocaust-denier Vincent Reynouard, a French fugitive in the UK who was caught following appeals from Campaign Against Antisemitism.
A French journalist has been fired from a news outlet following alleged antisemitic social media posts. Geneva-based reporter Dina Abi-Saab was reportedly fired from France 24, a French state-owned network
Gerald Darmanin, France’s Interior Minister, has asked his Ministry to dissolve Civitas, an ultra-Catholic, far-right political party, following inflammatory remarks about Jews. During a seminar last month, Pierre Hillard, one
Freeze Corleone, a French rapper, has recently released a new track that includes the lyrics: “I’d rather be accused of antisemitism than rape.” The line refers to Gerald Darmanin, the
The massive riots currently engulfing France have featured numerous instances of antisemitism. The violent chaos that has spread across France and its overseas territories was sparked by the fatal shooting of a
Four young men have been put on trial, charged with plotting terrorist attacks at Jewish sites in France. Prosecutors have stated that the group conspired together via a group chat
The convicted Holocaust-denier Vincent Reynouard appeared in court today. Mr Reynouard, 54, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for a preliminary hearing in his ongoing bid to avoid extradition to France,
A Canadian university professor has been convicted of carrying out a 1980 terrorist bombing outside a synagogue in Paris. Hassan Diab, 69, a Lebanese-born sociologist of Palestinian-Arab heritage at Carleton
France 24 has suspended four journalists in connection with allegations of antisemitism. The announcement by the French state-owned network, which broadcasts in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, came following a
The Scottish Prison Service is investigating how a French Holocaust-denier is disseminating far-right material online from his jail cell. Vincent Reynouard, 53, was arrested late last year by Police Scotland officers in Anstruther, Fife, in a
A notorious French Holocaust denier living in Britain has denied his consent to being extradited to France, following his recent arrest by Police Scotland officers in Anstruther. The arrest of
A notorious French Holocaust denier living in Britain appeared today in Edinburgh Sheriff Court, following his arrest by Police Scotland officers in Anstruther last week. The arrest of Vincent Reynouard, 53, came after he spent two
A Belgian court has refused to extradite a radical imam who fled France to escape deportation. Hassan Iquioussen, an imam with a history of making inflammatory comments about Jews, was arrested in Belgium in
A notorious French Holocaust denier living in Britain, who was convicted by the French courts last year, has been arrested near Edinburgh after spending two years on the run. Vincent
A European arrest warrant has been issued for a radical imam who has a history of making inflammatory comments about Jews, after the imam went on the run following a court ruling last week permitting the French
A court has ruled that the French Government can after all expel a radical imam with a history of making inflammatory comments about Jews. Earlier this month, the Government vowed
Following the graphic reports of the murder of a French Jewish man by his Muslim roommate, authorities have already ruled out an antisemitic motive. Eyal Haddad, 34, from the town
The French Government has vowed to change the law in order to be able to expel a radical imam with a history of inflammatory comments about Jews. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said
The Prime Minister of France has spoken publicly about the suicide of her father, who was a Holocaust survivor, when she was eleven years old. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne explained
A Jewish man in France was reportedly beaten and called a “dirty Jew” while campaigning as part of the French legislative elections. Liron Rozenhaft, 41, was putting up campaign posters
Two men in France’s north-eastern Alsace region were arrested after police raided the home of alleged neo-Nazis and found a large cache of weapons and ammunition. They found 23 illegal
Police in the Alsace region of France have reportedly arrested four neo-Nazis on weapons charges. The haul reportedly included forty-one guns, twenty-three of which were illegal. Also found was the
Following the news that an antisemitic motive had initially been ruled out after yet another elderly French Jew was allegedly thrown out of a window to his death, it was
The French Jewish community has reacted with a combination of outrage and resignation after yet another elderly French Jew was allegedly thrown out of a window to his death, with the police all too quickly ruling
A swastika and antisemitic tags were discovered on the walls of a kindergarten in the Paris suburb of Courbevoie. The city of Paris filed a formal police complaint following the
It has been reported that two men have been charged with causing the death of a French Jewish man who was fatally wounded after being hit by a tram. The
Luc Bernard, a video game developer and the creator of the first video game about the Holocaust, appeared on the most recent episode of Podcast Against Antisemitism where he spoke
The family of a French Jewish man who was fatally wounded after being hit by a tram has said that antisemitism may have played a role in the incident. While
A new survey of French Jews has found that 85 precent believe that antisemitism is widespread in their country. The survey was published by IFOP, a French international polling and market
Antisemitic incidents in France have skyrocketed by 75% in 2021. According to the French Jewish community’s main watchdog, the Jewish Community Security Service (SPCJ), 589 antisemitic hate crimes were recorded
A Canadian academic accused of involvement in a terrorist bombing outside a Parisian synagogue in 1980 is to stand trial. Hassan Diab, 67, a Lebanese-born sociologist at Carleton University in Ottawa,
A French mosque has been shuttered over support for Islamist groups and dissemination of antisemitism, just two weeks after another was ordered to close for inciting hatred. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin confirmed
An eleven-year-old Jewish boy was allegedly attacked in France by two fourteen-year-olds in what is believed to be an antisemitic attack. The incident took place in Essonnes, just south of Paris, in
Yacine Mihoub, 32, has been convicted of stabbing 85-year-old Mireille Knoll eleven times and has been sentenced to life in prison. Ms Knoll, a Holocaust survivor, was murdered during a botched robbery in March
A teenager has been arrested after reportedly waving a machete in front of a Jewish school in Lyon, France. The act was said to have taken place outside of the
The Paris Criminal Court has fined seven defendants who subjected the runner-up of the Miss France beauty competition to antisemitic abuse on Twitter after she revealed that her father is Israeli. Four women and three
A French court has cleared Jean-Marie Le Pen over his remark about a Jewish singer, in which he made a joke about the Holocaust. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of
French President Emmanuel Macron has inaugurated the first museum dedicated to the Dreyfus affair. Maison Zola-Musée Dreyfus is located in the former home of French author Émile Zola and houses
The trial over the 2018 murder of a Holocaust survivor began yesterday in Paris’ Court of Assizes. Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, fled Paris in 1942 at nine years
Jewish residents in Paris have received hate mail that said “Dirty Jews Out”. The incident reportedly took place last week in the French capital’s suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis where two Jewish
The French courts have given eight defendants who have been convicted of antisemitic harassment a two-month suspended prison sentence. April Benayoum, who won the title of Miss Provence 2020 and
Three French unions representing school teachers have condemned antisemitic tropes that featured at demonstrations against ‘vaccine passports’. In a joint statement, CGT Education 43, FSU 43 and SUD Education 43, all of the
A French court has acquitted an imam of incitement to racial hatred over a 2017 sermon in which he declared that “Judgement Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews”. Mohamed
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the French far-right party National Front (now National Rally), faces trial after being charged with “inciting antisemitic hatred”. The charge against Mr Le
A French Jewish man serving a sixteen-year prison sentence in Turkey who claimed that he was receiving antisemitic abuse in prison has been repatriated to France. As reported by Campaign
Antisemitic protest signs have prompted hate speech and incitement of violence investigations in France. In recent weeks, France has seen regular protests in response to the introduction of the “health
A website inspired by a pro-Nazi World War II-era newspaper is no longer online after the French Interior Minister urged its closure and warned that its publishers and backers may
A memorial in Perros-Guirec, France dedicated to Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor and former Minister of Health, was found vandalised on Wednesday. The stone memorial in north-western France was daubed
The President of France is suing a billboard owner over a poster that depicts him as Adolf Hitler. The posters that appeared in Toulon – the capital of the Var
Antisemitic vandals have used a blowtorch to engrave a Holocaust memorial with swastikas in Grenoble, France. The assailants targeted the commemorative plaques dedicated to the memory of deportees to Auschwitz
The French comedian Dieudonné has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for producing videos of an “antisemitic nature.” Dieudonné, whose real name is Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, is a French comedian
The trial that will determine the fate of a gang of nine men who are accused of beating and robbing a Jewish Parisian family in their own home has begun.
A French former general who has been accused of spouting antisemitic rhetoric on live television has come under investigation. In an interview on CNews, General Dominique Delawarde alluded to a
An anonymous letter describing Jews as “the cancer of humanity” and threatening to attack a full synagogue with “two Kalashnikovs” was sent to the small Jewish community of Béziers in
The French President Emmanuel Macron was assaulted on camera earlier this week by members of the public, one of whom was later found to have had a copy of Adolf
The President of France has condemned antisemitism in an historic address earlier this week. President Macron began his ten-minute long video address to the American Jewish Committee by reaffirming France’s
A far-left French Presidential candidate has said that the murder of four Jews was “planned in advance” in order to encourage anti-Muslim sentiment. In 2012, Mohammed Merah, a Jihadist
It has been announced that a French Parliamentary commission of inquiry will be established in order to investigate the murder of Sarah Halimi. In 2017, Ms Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish
Campaign Against Antisemitism held a rally in solidarity with French Jews yesterday in opposition to the Court of Cassation’s ruling to let Sarah Halimi’s murderer go free. In 2017, Ms
Turkish officials have agreed in principle to repatriate a French prisoner allegedly suffering antisemitic abuse in prison. Campaigners in France say that Fabien Azoulay, 43, who is four years into
France’s Court of Cassation has ruled that Sarah Halimi’s killer could not be held to stand trial due to being high on cannabis whilst committing the murder. In 2017, Ms
Jewish residents in Paris chased and apprehended a man whom they suspected of trying to stab three Jews. The man was then handed over to the police. The incident took
Strasbourg City Council has voted against adopting the International Definition of Antisemitism, despite a number of antisemitic incidents in the city during the past year. The city councillor responsible for
A knife attack on a Jewish school in the French city of Marseilles has been averted thanks to the intervention of school parents volunteering as security guards. École Yavne (Yavne School) was
Organisers of an anti-vaccine demonstration in the French city of Avignon have been described as “brainless” for using the Nazi yellow star in their protest. In the demonstration organised by
An antisemitic e-mail was sent to a French Jewish politician telling her that Muslims will “deal with” her and to “prepare for” the death camps. Yaël Braun-Pivet, a member of
The controversial French comedian Dieudonné was instructed by the Paris Court of Appeals to pay a fine of €9,000 (over £7,700) for mocking the Holocaust in a video. Dieudonné, whose
A French Jewish police officer found swastikas and “dirty Jew” scrawled on his locker at his police precinct. The officer, who is part of an elite unit based south-west of
Leading Catholic bishops in France have issued a declaration to combat what they call the “worrying resurgence of antisemitism in France.” The declaration, signed by the President of the Conference
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old French Jew. Social media posts remembered Mr Halimi who, on 20th January 2006, was
The food-delivery service Deliveroo and two delivery men are facing legal action after two kosher restaurant owners in Strasbourg claimed that delivery men had refused to deliver their food because
Gabriel Attal, a French politician of the La Républice En Marche! (LREM) Party, received a letter on 8th January that contained antisemitic and homophobic threats against him. On the envelope,
An imam in Toulouse is to be prosecuted for incitement to racial hatred over a sermon he delivered in 2017. Algerian-born Mohamed Tatai, 57, was indicted more than two years
Two Jewish cemeteries in the Alsace region of France, close to the German border, were desecrated within hours of one another on 29th December Police are investigating after 107 graves
French police have arrested four people suspected of an antisemitic hate crime, after they allegedly verbally abused a Jewish family and threw bottles at the car in which the family
A French court on Wednesday found fourteen defendants guilty of aiding two terrorist attacks that killed seventeen people in Paris in January 2015, including four people at a kosher supermarket.
French police are investigating after a contestant in the Miss France beauty competition was subjected to a torrent of antisemitic abuse when she revealed that her father is Israeli. Representing
A man who has been found unfit to stand trial after telling a French court that he “wanted to kill a Jew” is the latest defendant to use successfully an
A French court sentenced a man on 30th November to six months in prison after finding him guilty of attacking a Jewish graffiti artist in the city of Strasbourg, France.
A French court has jailed a notorious French Holocaust denier for four months following his latest conviction. Vincent Reynouard, 51, was jailed for four months on 25th November by a
Antisemitic graffiti has reportedly appeared on walls in the French city of Mulhouse. Graffiti first appeared in early November on walls near the centre of the city, which is located
A “dangerous” Islamist, who is alleged to have played a prominent role in organising protests against the Paris high school teacher who was beheaded last week, has been taken into
The Parisian prosecutor’s office has failed to include a hate charge in the upcoming trial of the suspect who spray-painted twenty large red swastikas across the Plate de la Concorde
Police in Paris have arrested a suspect in connection with the vandalisation of the walls and columns of the Place de la Concorde and Rue de Rivoli with fascist imagery.
On Wednesday a Paris appeals court ordered the French state to return three significant works of art to the heirs of a Jewish collector who died in a German concentration
Spotify has been called on to remove the music of a French rapper whose controversial songs are accused of inciting antisemitic views and hatred, particularly among young people. The rapper,
A Paris court last week heard how an Islamist terrorist asked hostages whether they wanted him to “finish off” another victim to silence his moans. Eric Cohen, the father of
A French court has jailed a neo-Nazi apologist for seventeen months over two antisemitic posts online and a third that apparently denied the Holocaust. Hervé Lalin, also known as Hervé Ryssen, posted
France’s leading left-wing politician, Jean-Luc Melenchon, has weighed in on the UK’s general election, claiming that one of the reasons that Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn lost the election was “baseless accusations
The French National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, has adopted the International Definition of Antisemitism. Campaign Against Antisemitism welcomes this decision at a time of heightened antisemitism in France.
Notorious antisemite and Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz will stand trial next month in Chesterfield, where it will be determined whether blog posts published by her since June 2018 constitute a
French President Emmanuel Macron has told Jewish leaders that France will adopt the International Definition of Antisemitism as part of a strategy to counter antisemitism. He said that adopting the
As the world reacted with shock to the horrific attack on families celebrating Bastille Day in Nice on Thursday night, many on social media turned to a familiar scapegoat, convinced
The BBC has published an analysis of the terrorist atrocity in Nice, claiming that the attach was somehow worse than the murder of Jews at the Hypercacher kosher supermarket last January because in
