Terror Franciaországban – Ronald Lauder , Hollande, Egyiptom al-Sisi és Izrael Netanjahu

WJC News Update – TERROR IN FRANCE – Ronald Lauder confers with France’s Hollande, Egypt’s al-Sisi and Israel’s Netanyahu

Response to Paris terror attacks: WJC President Lauder confers with France’s Hollande, Egypt’s al-Sisi and Israel’s Netanyahu

WJC President Ronald S. Lauder on Monday met with French President François Hollande in Paris to discuss the situation of French Jewry. Earlier, Lauder met in Cairo with Egypt’s President al-Sisi and in Paris with Israel’s PM Netanyahu.

France to deploy thousands of forces to protect Jewish schools and ‘sensitive sites’ – New York Times

12 Jan 2015 The French authorities on Monday began to unveil a broad array of measures to send thousands of soldiers and police officers to guard Jewish schools and other sites. READ MORE »

French PM: If Jews flee, the republic will be a failure – The Atlantic

12 Jan 2015 It is not merely the physical safety of France’s Jews that is imperiled by anti-Semitic violence, the country’s prime minister, Manuel Valls, argues, but the very idea of the French Republic itself.  READ MORE »

Lassana Bathily: the Paris kosher supermarket Muslim hero – The Guardian

12 Jan 2015 Lassana Bathily, 24, a Muslim shop assistant originally from Mali, in west Africa, was praised for risking his own life to save those led to safety. READ MORE »

Almost four million turn out for unity rallies across France – Euronews

12 Jan 2015 Officials say attendance in Paris was more than two million and the figure was at least 3.7 million nationwide.This breaks the previous record for the largest rally in France: the liberation of Paris after World War Two. READ MORE »

BBC reporter at Paris rally: ‘Palestinians suffer at Jewish hands’ – Honest Reporting

12 Jan 2015 This isn’t the first time that Tim Willcox has demonstrated disturbing behavior when it comes to Jews. As BBC Watch explains, Willcox promoted the “Jewish lobby” trope on a BBC broadcast as recently as November 2014. READ MORE »