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Police fire tear gas as French high school protests escalate nationwide over school conditions

The protests began in September in the deprived suburbs of Paris, before spreading nationwide, presenting a major challenge to President Emmanuel Macron's cash-strapped government.

A masked student attempts to kick a tear gas canister, amid clashes with French riot police during a protest by French high school and university students near Lycee Paul Eluard high-school.
 Amichai Chikli speaks at Conference of Presidents, February 16, 2025.

Amichai Chikli invites politicians from European far-right parties to Israel, in a first

 Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and member of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group during a debate about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the National Assembly in Paris, October 23, 2023.

Despite National Rally's rebrand, Israel is still stuck with a Le Pen dilemma - comment

 Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and member of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group during a debate about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the National Assembly in Paris, October 23, 2023.

French Jewish community heads request meeting with National Rally's Le Pen


Holocaust controversy comes back to haunt Le Pen's election campaign

The vice-president of the French National Front will not take over the party leadership due to allegations that he made remarks about Nazi gas chambers.

Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for French 2017 presidential election, celebrates after early results in the first round of 2017 French presidential election, in Henin-Beaumont, France

Le Pen’s toxic vision

France’s Jewish community recognizes the dangers inherent in a victory for Le Pen.

CAMPAIGN POSTERS for candidates Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN), Jean-Luc Melenchon of the Parti de Gauche, and Benoit Hamon of the Socialist Party who were running in the 2017 French presidential election

Analysis: France rejects the establishment

Elections in France have been turbulent and full of surprises, and continue to evoke fear and hope in France as well as in the whole region as the last round approaches.

Macron, Fillon, Le Pen and Mélenchon

Tel Aviv’s French community turns out in force for presidential election

‘I just don’t want Le Pen to take my passport,’ says one voter

VOTERS STAND in line at the French Institute in Tel Aviv yesterday.

Le Pen, Macron in tight race as France votes for president

Eleven candidates will be narrowed to two for final May runoff

Macron, Fillon, Le Pen and Mélenchon

Russian chief rabbi: France’s Jews should leave if Le Pen wins election

Many French Jews regard Marine Le Pen as dangerous, and the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities has called her and the communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon 'candidates of hatred.'

Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for French 2017 presidential election, attends a campaign rally in Paris, France, April 17, 2017

Le Pen: Expel foreigners who are on watch lists

En Marche candidate Emmanuel Macron urged the country not to "give in to fear" in the wake of the attack.

France's far-right National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a political rally in Six-Fours, near Toulon

Israel condemns Le Pen’s disclaimer of France’s role in the Holocaust

“This declaration is contrary to historical truth,” Israel's Foreign Ministry said.

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Official in Marine Le Pen's party suspended over Holocaust-denying statement

Benoit Loueillet, an official in the far-right National Front party, was suspended after he was recorded saying that "there was no mass murder as has been said."

Marine Le Pen (L), France's National Front political party leader, sits next to her father Jean-Marie Le Pen [File]

France's far-right Le Pen loses EU parliament immunity over ISIS tweets

The French National Front party leader is under investigation for posting three graphic images of Islamic State executions on Twitter in December 2015.

France's far-right National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a political rally in Six-Fours, near Toulon