Sarkozy Stirs Anger With Holocaust Curriculum
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Franceâs president touched off protests with a plan to have students learn the life stories of children the Nazis killed.
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French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy stirs up controversy by calling for state funding for mosques in his new book.
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A Resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis was honored Monday in schools across France, although some teachers defied an order by President Nicolas Sarkozy to have his final letter read aloud, saying the government was trying to twist history into propaganda.
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A school text book for Arab children in Israel has sparked an outcry among rightist Jews by including a reference for the first time to the Palestinian view of the Jewish state's founding as a "catastrophe".
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Arsonists have set fire to a Jewish soup kitchen in central Paris and daubed Nazi symbols on the building, police say, in the latest anti-Semitic act in France.
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The wave of anti-Semitic attacks in France is a "new and extremely worrying social factor", says a report into racism.
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State funding for mosques to counter attempts by extremists to indoctrinate young people on Muslim-dominated areas is urged today by France's most talked-about politician, the finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy's chief of staff chided French media on Tuesday in the latest sign of a growing rift between Sarkozy and journalists who have picked over the details of his very public love life.
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A Jewish social centre in Paris has been set on fire in what the authorities say was an anti-Semitic arson attack. No-one was injured in the attack but the centre, on the ground floor of a building, was badly damaged.
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A gathering of Holocaust deniers in Iran touched off a firestorm of indignation Tuesday across Europe, where many countries have made it a crime to publicly disavow the Nazis' systematic extermination of 6 ...Comment
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Israel's foreign minister praised France on Tuesday for working to stem a four-year wave of anti-Semitic violence but emphasized that efforts to combat prejudice against Jews need to be reinforced among the public &#151; especially French youths.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, facing  a tide of criticism over his call for schoolchildren to "adopt"  Jewish child victims of the Holocaust, hit back on Friday  saying France had to raise children "with open eyes."
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France's Education Ministry is distributing DVDs with excerpts of the classic Holocaust film "Shoah" to its 5,500 lycees this week, in another step Paris is taking to fight growing anti-Semitism.
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An arson attack destroyed a Jewish social club in the heart of Paris yesterday, alarming and infuriating French politicians and Jewish leaders who are struggling to halt an epidemic of anti-Semitic incidents across France.
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Once again, arson struck a Jewish center in Paris, and once again condemnations by French government leaders are heard in what has become a routine.
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Vandalized Jewish graves in western Europe. Growing support for extreme-right parties in Germany. Comments by France's far-right leader playing down the evils of the Nazi occupation.
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The Israeli ambassador has criticised the French government for issuing a death certificate for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stating his place of birth as Jerusalem.