France’s Authoritarian Turn
In the wake of recent terrorist attacks, France’s Macron government has announced a string of authoritarian measures which stigmatise Muslims and further undermine the country’s fragile civil liberties.
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Maxime Benatouil
Maxime Benatouil is a member of the national co-ordinating committee of the French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP).
Lebanon’s Interwoven Crises
This month’s apocalyptic explosion in Beirut was a symbol for the disintegration of a Lebanese state plagued by political and economic crisis – and increasingly subject to the intrigue of its old imperial power, France.
The Other 8th of May
Seventy-five years ago today, as the end of war was celebrated in Europe, French colonial forces began a brutal repression against the nationalist movement in Algeria which would result in the deaths of tens of thousands.