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...from the older phenomenon of religious bigotry known as anti-Judaism. The practices and policies that lead to genocide, pogroms, lynching, and the systematic exclusion of Jews from civil society simply because they are Jews are indisputable examples of anti-Semitism. The recent kidnapping, torture, and murder of Ilan Halimi in France and the explicitly hateful policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran are contemporary examples of anti-Semitism.How then did “anti-Semitism,” with its specific political meaning and with all its horrific historical connotations, come into the discourse of what is essentially a management...
...CAPTURED. YOUSSOUF FOFANA, 26, self-styled "brain of barbarians" and alleged leader of a Parisian gang accused of abducting and torturing to death Ilan Halimi, 23; in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Halimi, who was Jewish, was found Feb. 13 in the banlieue of Bagneux with extensive chemical burns, bruises and cuts; he died on the way to the hospital. More than a dozen people are in French custody and under questioning about their alleged roles in the crime, which a magistrate has deemed anti-Semitic. France has demanded Fofana's extradition...
...film after only a nine-day showing. The reason: five masked men, styling themselves "The Revolutionary Commandos of the Christian West," trashed one of the movie houses, because they found the film "offensive to the memory of the dead." While the movie's director, former Journalist André Halimi, sought less timorous distributors, Let's Sing electrified audiences at three showings during the Cannes International Film Festival...
Claude Servan-Schreiber, Michele Chevalier and Gisele Halimi spoke about repressive abortion laws in France and about women's efforts to change them...
Battling Bachelor. Halimi, who carries Cerdan's picture with him everywhere, is as tough as any of them. The youngest of 18 children of a poor Jewish postal inspector, he quit school at twelve and became a tailor's apprentice. Five years later he sewed himself a pair of green and red trunks, decorated them with a Star of David, and became a boxer. As an amateur, he was champion of France in 1953, '54 and '55. When he turned pro in 1955, he went back to Algeria to begin his career. Along with every other...