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Israeli ambassador compares France’s far-left leader’s rhetoric to Hitler as antisemitism surges
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PARIS, France — Israel’s ambassador to France says far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s rhetoric against Jews «reminds me of Hitler,» warning that foreign influence is fueling a surge in antisemitism that has some French Jews hiding their identities to survive daily life.
France recorded 1,320 antisemitic acts in 2025 — triple the 436 incidents in 2022 — but a senior member of the Jewish community leaders told Fox News Digital they refuse to retreat, even as the attacks and incidents keep coming.
Israeli Ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, says France is home to Europe’s largest Muslim community and is contributing to a high volume of antisemitic incidents reported across the country each day. France also has Europe’s largest Jewish community.
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Leader of French left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) party Jean-Luc Melenchon delivers a speech during an electoral campaign meeting of the local LFI candidate for French municipal elections in Marseille, southern France, on March 7, 2026. (Miguel Medina / AFP via Getty Images)
«The number of events is extremely high — not because the French government does not fight it, but because there is this base in which antisemitism is growing,» he said, due to foreign influence, which he claimed comes from Iran, Russia, Turkey and Qatar.
While he says those state actors are fueling the fire of Jew-hatred from the outside, certain French political actors exploit antisemitism for the purpose of getting more votes. According to Zarka, foremost among them is the far-left party La France Insoumise (LFI).
«The way [LFI leader] Jean-Luc Mélenchon speaks in front of a crowd reminds me of Hitler. The way he uses the idea of uniting against one enemy by speaking of Israel is similar to the way Hitler used to speak about the Jews,» Zarka said.
In February, the Human Rights League criticized Mélenchon after he mocked the pronunciation of Jewish names, including that of MEP Raphaël Glucksmann.
Palestinian protestors wave flags with some seemingly making Nazi-like salutes during a soccer game between Israel and Paraguay during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Parc des Princes in Paris on July 27, 2024. (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images)
Mélenchon previously wrote on his blog that «antisemitism remains residual in France,» remarks critics said downplayed a surge in Jew-hatred following Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel.
Fox News Digital repeatedly contacted Mélenchon’s media adviser for comment but did not receive a response.
Zarka added that over the past three years there has been a shift in the Jewish community’s perception of what was once considered the extreme right, with many no longer viewing the National Rally, formerly led by Marine Le Pen, as such.
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Protesters hold signs reading «raped at 12 because Jewish» during a demonstration called by associations including SOS Racisme and the Women’s Foundation to denounce antisemitism, in Paris on June 20, 2024, after the alleged antisemetic gang rape of a 12-year-old girl in Paris’ suburb of Courbevoie. (ZAKARIA ABDELKAFI/AFP via Getty Images)
«Let’s not forget that [National Rally president] Jordan Bardella went to Israel and, at Yad Vashem, made a formal commitment to fight antisemitism, be it from the right or the left, and that is significant… that is sinking into the mind of the Jewish community,» Zarka said.»
Recent incidents include the partial cutting down on Jan. 12 in Lyon of a tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, who was abducted and murdered in a 2006 antisemitic attack. On Feb. 9, a young boy wearing a kippah was assaulted by a group of five individuals, one of whom allegedly held a knife to his throat. Ten days later, acid was sprayed in two dining rooms of a kosher restaurant in Paris’s 17th arrondissement. On Apr. 15, racist and antisemitic graffiti targeted three high schools in the Montpellier metropolitan area.
El Al’s offices in Paris were vandalized, showing graffiti on the building’s exterior. (Noemie Olive/Reuters)
In March, two brothers were arrested in connection with what authorities described as a «deadly and antisemitic» plot after police discovered a semi-automatic weapon, a bottle of hydrochloric acid and an Islamic State flag in their vehicle.
Rabbi Elie Lemmel was targeted in two antisemitic attacks, including last June in Deauville, where he was punched in the stomach. Days later, he was attacked again in Neuilly-sur-Seine while sitting at a café terrace, when a Palestinian from Gaza struck him with a chair.
Lemmel told Fox News Digital he had almost never faced aggression before, but believes the post-Oct. 7 conflict has intensified tensions. He said he understands those who choose to be more discreet and would never judge them.
«You have to be vigilant,» he said. «Unfortunately, some people see a kippah and it bothers them. Those who want to do harm will always find reasons.
«If we start hiding, it is the beginning of the end,» he added. «I have always worn a kippah, and that is why I continue to wear it.»
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Yonathan Arfi, president of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF), said some Jewish families now forgo displaying mezuzahs or use different names on mobile apps to avoid being identified.
«On the one hand, there is a rise in antisemitism that leads to precautionary behavior,» Arfi told Fox News Digital. «On the other hand, Jewish life remains more vibrant than ever, with synagogues full and more kosher restaurants than ever before.»
«We must not offer antisemitic terrorists and those driven by hatred our fear and withdrawal as a trophy,» said Arfi. «Wherever possible, Jewish life must continue openly and proudly.»
French riot police use tear gas to disperse demonstrators during a pro-Palestinian rally at Republique Square in Paris on Oct. 12, 2023. (Ibrahim Ezzat/Anadolu)
Immigration to Israel, he said, should nevertheless be seen as a warning sign that some Jews no longer see a future in France.
Historically, French immigration to Israel averaged between 1,500 and 2,000 people annually after the Six-Day War. The figure peaked at around 8,000 annually between 2012 and 2015, fell to about 1,000 in 2023, then rose again to more than 2,000 in 2024 and 3,500 in 2025. The Jewish Agency for Israel estimates roughly 4,000 immigrants from France in 2026.
The Israeli ambassador to Paris noted that French authorities take combating antisemitism seriously, and therefore the country remains «a relatively safe place,» while urging Israelis to exercise caution when traveling to other European countries such as Spain, Belgium and even the Netherlands, «where antisemitism flourishes.»
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 23, 2025. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
In February, President Emmanuel Macron denounced the «antisemitic hydra» that had crept into «every crack» of French society during a ceremony commemorating Ilan Halimi, a Jewish man kidnapped and tortured to death by the Gang of Barbarians in 2006.
«In 20 years, and despite the resolute efforts of our police officers, gendarmes, judges, teachers and elected officials, the antisemitic hydra has kept advancing,» Macron said, according to Le Monde.
«Constantly assuming new faces, it has insinuated itself into the heart of our societies, into every crevice, too often accompanied by that same pact of cowardice: to keep silent, to refuse to see,» he continued.
Macron also condemned the «Islamist antisemitism» behind the Oct. 7 Hamas-led massacre, as well as «far-left antisemitism,» which he said «rivals that of the far right.»
He added that antisemitism increasingly «uses the mask of anti-Zionism to advance quietly.»
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Marine Le Pen and deputies Sebastien Chenu and Jordan Bardella participate in a march against antisemitism from the Esplanade des Invalides to the Senate in Paris on Nov. 12, 2023. (Antoine Gyori/Corbis via Getty Images)
Even so, bilateral ties with Israel are not without friction, with Zarka disclosing that the government of French President Emmanuel Macron refused to allow U.S. military overflights carrying weapons to Israel during the war against Iran.
«The French made the decision not to provide us with an aerial bridge for American weapon shipments to fly over during the war against Iran,» he said.
It was the second time France had denied such a request, the first occurring during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the envoy noted.
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Paula Klein, Premio Lumen de Novela: “¿Hasta qué punto conocemos a la persona con la que compartimos nuestra vida?”
El amor inventado es el título de la obra ganadora del Premio Lumen de Novela. Su autora es argentina y se llama Paula Klein. Su nombre se develó hace apenas unas horas. El jurado leyó en esta novela una indagación sobre la mentira en la vida íntima y en el periodismo, dos territorios que la autora decidió poner en fricción desde una misma pregunta: “¿Hasta qué punto conocemos a la persona con la que compartimos nuestra vida?”, dijo en diálogo con la prensa, como un interrogante abierto e interpelador.
La novela ganadora obtuvo una dotación de 30 mil euros y su publicación en todo el ámbito hispanohablante. Entre 683 manuscritos, una cifra récord para el premio, la obra fue elegida por mayoría y la organización informó además que la recepción de originales se duplicó en países como España, Argentina y Uruguay. Klein, que reside en Francia, viajó a España para conversar con los integrantes del jurado y la prensa.
Klein reveló que investigó casos reales de periodistas que falsificaron reportajes y también redes de mujeres estafadas para construir la novela. La tensión central del libro, según sus propias palabras, está en pensar la mentira en la prensa, porque en el periodismo “hay un pacto de confianza con el lector que no puedes romper” y, si eso ocurre, “hay una construcción democrática que se derrumba”.
Klein afirmó que el personaje masculino nació de una investigación sobre “periodistas que habían falseado, ficcionalizado incluso reportajes enteros”. Mencionó durante la rueda de prensa nombres como Jayson Blair, Janet Cooke, Oriana Fallaci y el “falso Tom Kummer” como parte del material que la ayudó a pensar cómo se construyen trayectorias públicas sostenidas durante años sobre una identidad adulterada. Aun así, marcó un límite: “Es una novela que no está basada en hechos reales”.
El centro de su interés no fue reproducir un caso puntual, sino explorar a personas enamoradas que “no paran de mentirse”, tanto entre sí como frente a su hija, sus padres, su entorno y la sociedad. “En la prensa no podés mentir”, dijo ante la pregunta por las fake news. Añadió que la no ficción y la ficción no pueden confundirse porque, si esa división se vuelve borrosa, “ya no sabemos dónde estamos parados”.
La autora sostuvo además que eligió a un periodista como figura central porque trabaja como académica sobre periodismo de investigación y le interesaba pensar un mundo de “hechos alternativos”. En ese marco, describió un tipo de personaje al que vinculó con figuras de poder contemporáneas: “el contador de mierda profesional”, alguien que mezcla medias verdades hasta volver indistinguible lo verdadero de lo falso.
“La mentira en el periodismo es algo grave. Deberíamos tener ese consenso”, sostuvo. “Que pase lo que pase con los casos particulares, cómo se consume nos dice mucho de cómo somos como sociedad, qué relación tenemos nosotros con los relatos que nos contamos”, dijo agregó: “Me fascinan los casos en los que no solo no hay castigo, sino que además parecen ser premiadas esas personas que mienten. Pasa mucho con los impostores: lograron darle la vuelta al sistema. Y nuestra sociedad pareciera aplaudir”.
“En ningún momento quise hacer ni una crítica ni un elogio de la mentira, sino realmente meterme en el fondo de estas cuestiones. Me parece que es una novela que no da respuestas, pero sí confronta un montón de situaciones posibles y a un montón de tratamientos que la mentira genera, tanto en mujeres engañadas, en víctimas, en bullshitters. Pero no me interesa plantear un juicio moral, porque la ficción está ahí justamente para sacudirnos. La ficción también es oxígeno”, aseguró.
La otra mitad del libro, según la propia escritora, está en el matrimonio. “El amor verdadero puede convivir con el desconocimiento total de la persona que tenemos enfrente”, dijo al resumir la sospecha que organiza la novela. “Tengo la íntima convicción de que los matrimonios que duran o esas parejas que mejor resisten en el tiempo son los que se vuelven muy hábiles en el secreto, en la omisión, en la mentira noble, como decía Voltaire, esas mentiras que decimos para no lastimar al otro”, arremetió.
“Me parece muy interesante que todas esas relaciones afectivas estén atravesadas por la mentira, pero la mentira como algo incluso hasta noble, positivo, virtuoso, que siempre va a terminar haciendo mal a la larga. Partí de esa íntima convicción: que las parejas que duran están atravesadas por el secreto, que son quienes saben mantener y omitir, los prestidigitadores del secreto”, dijo. “Los escritores y los artistas parecemos ser los únicos que tenemos la mentira autorizada por la vía de la ficción”, agregó.
“Con ese storytelling y esa invención estás ficcionalizando y embelleciendo, pero también le damos otra paleta al mundo que nos rodea: nos permitimos ver las cosas de otra manera. La mentira, al menos como la exploro dentro de las relaciones sociales, es como un ámbito de libertad. También es un estadio en la evolución de los niños”, dijo y concluyó: “Los que trabajamos con la ficción tenemos ese placer suplementario: todavía podemos seguir jugando por la vía de la ficción”.
Paula Klein es una escritora, investigadora y docente universitaria argentina nacida en Buenos Aires en 1986. Es licenciada en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), magíster por la École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (París) y doctora en Literatura Comparada por la Universidad de Poitiers.
Vive en Francia desde el año 2012. Escribió La luz de una estrella muerta (2021, su primera novela, centrada en el artista plástico argentino Alberto Greco) y Las brujas de Monte Verità (2023, novela histórica en la Suiza a comienzos del siglo XX).
El Premio Lumen de Novela es otorgado por la editorial española Lumen, perteneciente al grupo Penguin Random House, a una novela inédita escrita en idioma español por una autora mujer. Existió entre 1994 y 1999 y se reactivó en 2023, cuando lo ganó Leticia Martin. Siguieron Natalia Litvinova en 2024 y Inma Pelegrín en 2025. En esta edición, se incluyó una mención finalista para Estado de distancia de Belén López Peiró.
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Senate Republicans narrowly halted another attempt to handcuff President Donald Trump’s war authority in Iran as a peace deal begins to take shape.
The latest failed war-powers resolution, this time from Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., comes after Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with the Iranian government that could lead to an end to the war. While Congress is still in the dark on the details of the deal, Republicans still stood behind the president Tuesday.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who has led the Democrats’ war powers efforts for the last several months, argued that while a possible deal was a good thing, it appeared the U.S. and Iran would be headed to an «intermission» in fighting as both sides hammered out the final details of a longer peace deal.
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President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a bilateral meeting with the United Arab Emirates’ president at the G7 summit in Evian, France, on June 16, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
«An intermission is a great time to do what we should have done before this war, which is have the consultation with Congress that the Constitution requires,» Kaine said. «Why restart a war if we haven’t done our job?»
Still, Warnock’s resolution failed despite a previous effort advancing in the Senate last month when a cohort of Senate Republicans joined nearly all Senate Democrats to rebuke the war. That same group, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Bill Cassidy, R-La., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., joined all Democrats to vote for the resolution.
But absences on both sides of the aisle helped the GOP in their effort to give Trump more runway to hammer out a deal to end the war.
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Senate Foreign Relations Chair James Risch, R-Idaho, argued that Democrats were effectively trying to «help Iran» with Democrats’ war powers efforts, and he countered that if the resolution passed, Iran would back out of any forthcoming peace deal.
«If a miracle happened, a miracle happened, and this passed, got through the Senate, got through the House, and the president signed it — if that miracle happened, do you think Iran would sign the deal that has been negotiated? Of course not,» Risch said.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during a Senate Republicans press conference at the U.S. Capitol on June 2, 2026, flanked by Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.)
Meanwhile, Congress is still waiting for details of the deal, which as of Tuesday, had yet to materialize publicly or behind closed doors in the upper chamber.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he still had not been briefed on the matter. When asked if it was normal for Thune and others to request these kinds of briefings from the administration, Thune said, «Since I’ve been in this job, we haven’t had this issue, so I don’t know the answer to that.»
«My assumption is that it’s a function of, at some point, they understand they’re going to have to, I think they’ve intimated as much, that they’ve got to get this in front of us,» he said. «And hopefully, that’ll happen sooner rather than later. But you know, obviously it sounds like they’re not going public with it until later in the week, so we’ll see.»
Some Democrats, on the other hand, are contending that early reports of the deal appear to favor Iran more than the U.S.
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Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said, «It’s essentially a surrender.»
«But I think that’s the only play we can make at this point. We have to end this war, stop wasting money, stop killing Americans and civilians, stop driving a crisis,» Murphy said. »So, it’s a bad deal, but he’s not gonna get a better deal. So, we just have to accept the humiliation.»
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