France Jews

Are French courts unwilling to call out antisemitism, recognize Jew-hatred? - analysis

In December 2025, an Algerian nanny was sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for poisoning a French Jewish family, but the court ruled this was not an act of antisemitism.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
French flag and court gavel in this illustration taken November 5, 2025.
Mezuzah at the entrance to the O Laffa kosher restaurant owned by a couple belonging to the Jewish community and vandalized by an anti-Semitic act on the night of September 2 to 3 in Villeurbanne, France on September 24, 2024.

Parisian Jewish family ordered to remove mezuzah from apartment door by building management

The family was told they have 15 days to remove the mezuzah, with the management company saying it had been put up "without any authorization."

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Caroline Yadan in Jerusalem, February 17.

'From the river to the sea' could be punishable under new French law, says MP Yadan - interview

French MP Caroline Yadan's Bill 575, which seeks to combat “renewed forms of antisemitism,” has already been adopted by the French National Assembly Law Committee.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
‘All the security is not a normal life,’ Rabbi Moshe Sebbag told The Jerusalem Post as French Jews face an uncertain future.

Jews were target of majority of antireligious acts in 2025, French ministry reveals

The new Anti-Religious Acts Report 2025 found that almost 2,500 antireligious acts were carried out last year, similar to the number in 2024.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Suspect arrested for terror attack outside French synagogue causing car explosion, one injured

A French police officer was injured on Saturday when a blazing car exploded in the car park of a synagogue in the coastal town of La Grande-Motte.

AUGUST 24, 2024ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD, EYAL GREEN, REUTERS
Reported footage of the suspect who perpetrated a terror attack in a synagogue in France, wrapped in a Palestinian flag and armed with a pistol.

‘Hitler was right': French Jews harassed on Paris, Montpellier metros

The Paris Police Prefecture said on Thursday that it was looking for a man who verbally harassed an Orthodox Jewish family.

AUGUST 18, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Police officer patrols on the Trocadero square in front of the Olympic rings displayed on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic games in Paris, France, June 7, 2024.

'Jews have no more than ten years left in France' says Sarcelles Rabbi - exclusive

"I don’t want to play with you because you’re a Jew," Jewish children in France are being told as they are pressured to convert to Islam by their peers on the playground.

AUGUST 1, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Sarcelles Chabad Rabbi Yaacov Bitton

Paris Grande Synagogue treasurer: ‘French Jews must stay in France’ - interview

Levy explained that many of the fears around rising antisemitism were exaggerated, and said that he had never encountered antisemitism himself.

JULY 31, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Great Synagogue in Paris

'Jews live here': French anti-antisemitism campaign hits close to home

The video shows the effect of antisemitism on French Jews through the eyes of a non-Jewish family friend.

JULY 18, 2024ByYUVAL BARNEA
People attend a demonstration against antisemitism at the Place de la Bastille after three teenagers aged 12 to 13 were indicted in Courbevoie, accused of rape and antisemitic violence against a 12-year-old girl, in Paris, France, June 20, 2024.

French Jewish community heads request meeting with National Rally's Le Pen

The Jewish leaders represented small communities and suburbs and did not come from any of the country's established Jewish groups or institutions.

JULY 1, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and member of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group during a debate about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the National Assembly in Paris, October 23, 2023.

This far-left French politician said the Oct. 7 massacre was 'legitimate'

Rima Hassan's comments on the October 7 massacre placed her and La France Insoumise in a precarious position.

JULY 1, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rima Hassan, the then candidate for the European elections on the list of La France Insoumise (LFI), attends a pro-Palestinian protest in central Paris, France, May 29, 2024.

Canary in a coal mine: French Jews warn of extreme politics amid growing antisemitism - opinion

President Emmanuel Macron has opened a Pandora’s box that leaves French citizens disoriented, worried, and angry.

JUNE 24, 2024BySEBASTIEN LEVI
FRANCE’S PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron speaks during a music festival in the courtyard of the Élysée presidential palace in Paris, on Friday. Macron has opened a Pandora’s box that leaves French citizens disoriented, worried, and angry, says the writer.

Macron, French Jews call for action after antisemitic rape of 12-year-old girl

French Education Minister Nicole Belloubet said on social media that the crime against the victim was abominable, and the response to such "barbarism" was "Justice, School, Republic."  

JUNE 19, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
French police stand guard as a forensics member collects evidence after officers shot dead an armed man earlier who set fire to the city's synagogue in Rouen, France, May 17, 2024.

Jews are part of the history of France, but are they part of its future?

Antisemitism, unassimilated immigrant populations, and challenges to French national identity render the next chapters uncertain for French Jews.

APRIL 12, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
‘All the security is not a normal life,’ Rabbi Moshe Sebbag told The Jerusalem Post as French Jews face an uncertain future.