France
Helena and Izates of Adiabene.
Winning a battle in a long war.
In search of former glory—and money.
“This odious bombing was aimed at striking Jews who were going to the synagogue, and it hit innocent French people.”
From Paris in 1982 to the Achille Lauro.
“Give us what we want, or we’ll do to your people what we do to ours.”
Helena of Adiabene.
A new book forthrightly stares the various brands of French anti-Semitism in the face. Whether the author succeeds in placing them in their proper context is another question.
For nonbelievers, objects and traditions bound up with religious belief are a substitute for belief itself.
Alain Finkielkraut and Charles Péguy.
Jewish Cologne.
A political combination with a sizable French constituency.
Radical Islam or reefer madness?
Blame the Jews and the bicyclists.
