France On Edge As Israel-Hamas War Opens Old Scars With Jews and Muslims

Posted by Chauncey Koziol on Tuesday, August 27, 2024

As home to both the largest Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe, France is feeling the strain of the Israel-Hamas war like no other country on the continent.

Tensions are embroiling everyone from school children to football players in a country with a complicated colonial history in the Middle East and North Africa, one that is suffering the unmistakable reverberations of a conflict that’s pitting Jews against their Muslim neighbors.

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