French Jewish leader slams politician’s comparison of burkini ban to Holocaust

– French Jewish leader slams politician’s comparison of burkini ban to Holocaust 

German high school students in Argentina dress up as Nazis, attack JewsStudents from a German high school in Buenos Aires caused outrage after dressing up with swastikas and Hitler mustaches and engaging in a fight with Jewish students at a nightclub party in a discotheque. French Jewish leader slams pol’s comparison of burkini ban to Holocaust – JTAThe president of the CRIF condemned in his statement tweets by Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the Left Party, who has said that in France, “Jews were persecuted, then Protestants, and today Muslims.”

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