Published November 14, 2023
Jews planning to attend Tuesday’s demonstration say they feel imperative to show up in force as a counter to the large protests against Israel across globe
On Monday morning, Margie Maidman boarded a caravan of 10 buses from Boston to Washington, DC, headed to a massive demonstration in support of Israel and against antisemitism.
The journey is eight hours each way, and most of the people on her bus, like her, are in their 60s and 70s. It isn’t the first time she’s gone to the National Mall to attend a mass rally. In 1987, she was one of more than 200,000 people to descend on Washington for another cause trumpeted by a wide range of Jewish activists: advocacy for Jews in the Soviet Union.
“The last time I did something like this was in the late 1980s,” Maidman, whose transport is organized by her local Jewish federation, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “Aside from maybe women’s rights in Boston or something, I have not really been part of something on this scale.”
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SOURCE: www.timesofIsrael.com
RELATED: Macron hosts religious leaders for talks on combatting anti-Semitism
Published November 13, 2023
PARIS, France – President Emmanuel Macron on Monday hosted religious leaders for talks on combatting anti-Semitism in France, a day after a Paris march rallied tens of thousands to express anxiety over an upsurge in acts against Jews.
There have been growing tensions in France, home to large Muslim and Jewish communities, as war rages in the Gaza Strip between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel.
Macron had urged the religious leaders to make an “educational effort to increase the number of measures addressed to young people,” Catholic bishops’ conference head Eric de Moulins-Beaufort told reporters after the meeting.
“The president’s aim, which of course we will help pass on, is to spread this message,” said Elie Korchia, president of France’s Central Israelite Consistory.
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SOURCE: www.mb.com.Ph
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Paris le 12 Novembre 2023. Grande Marche citoyenne contre l’antisemitissme // Esplanade des Invalides
Published November 14, 2023
More than 100,000 people demonstrated in Paris on Sunday, and tens of thousands more across France, for the ‘great civic march’ against anti-Semitism. Politicians from across the spectrum were present, including the far-right Rassemblement National. But not President Emmanuel Macron, nor radical-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The rain had just stopped and the gray skies were letting through a few golden rays when, shortly after 2 pm on Sunday, November 12, the crowds began to pour onto the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris. They came in small groups, with family or friends, some with a dog on a leash, one lady even carrying her cat on her shoulder, like for a stroll outside on an autumn Sunday. They were in their thirties, forties, fifties, sometimes more. There were few young people, however, at this gathering against anti-Semitism.
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SOURCE: www.amp.cnn.com
RELATED: More than 180,000 demonstrators march in France against antisemitism
Published November 13, 2023
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Sunday to call out a sharp rise in antisemitic acts since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
In Paris, an estimated 105,000 demonstrators joined the march, making it the largest mobilization against antisemitism since the protest against the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Carpentras in 1990, according to CNN affiliate BFM TV.
Protesters were joined in the French capital by political figures including Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and former presidents Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy. Together they held a banner with the words, “For the Republic, against antisemitism.”
Demonstrators came out in smaller numbers in cities including Nice, Lyon and Marseille, according to BFM TV. More than 182,000 people took part in marches across the country, BFM TV reported, citing the interior ministry.
Tensions have been rising in France, and particularly in the capital, over the Israel-Hamas war, resulting in a surge in antisemitic incidents, according to French President Emmanual Macron.
In a letter published in French newspaper Le Parisien on Saturday, Macron condemned “the unbearable resurgence of unbridled antisemitism.”
He said more than 1,000 antisemitic acts were committed in France in one month alone – three times more than over the course of the entire previous year.
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SOURCE: www.amp.cnn.com
