France halts Gaza evacuations over antisemitism row involving Palestinian student - The suspension follows revelations that a ...

France is halting its evacuations of Gazans as outrage grows over a Palestinian student's antisemitic posts. The country's foreign minister said the student "has no place" in France.

From racist attacks to political protests and travel disruptions, Israelis and Jews face a broader backlash tied to the Gaza ...

The backlash erupted after Grok produced a string of controversial posts that referred to Hitler as "history's mustache man" ...

Less than a half-century later, France sent 76,000 Jews to their deaths in Hitler’s camps under the Vichy regime that collaborated with the occupying Nazi power between 1940 and 1944.

Like Marine Le Pen's far-right movement, Defiant France, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, remains defiantly antisemitic.

A generation ago, it would have been unthinkable: the leader of France’s far-right party – an organization infamously founded by Nazis – invited to speak at an Israeli antisemitism conference.

A version of this article appears in print on May 20, 2025, Section A, Page 17 of the New York edition with the headline: Israel and Antisemitism Loom Large as Issues in the Contest to Lead New ...