TO BE A JEW IN FRANCE

French police guard Jewish event
Riot police armed with water cannons were on hand to prevent hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators from storming a Jewish event in Paris. Around 400 pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested a gala evening on Monday organized by the French section of the Jewish National Fund to raise money to build picnic areas near Israeli army bases.

One of the groups, the Joint Appeal for a Just Peace in the Middle East, had earlier appealed to a Paris court to ban the event, which took place at a well-known Paris theater. The court ruled against the group and ordered them to pay around $1,200 in costs to the JNF. The event went ahead as planned in the presence of Israel’s ambassador to France, Nissim Zvilli.