Articles by Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

Since antisemitism is symptomatic of a greater societal malaise, it should be made clear that antisemitism is not a "Jewish" problem, but a hatred that eats away at the foundations of our society. In this fight, nothing less than the future of an open, liberal, Europe is at stake.

Denouncing antisemitic and antidemocratic rhetoric, wherever it comes from- targeting both Jews and the state, the police, and all national institutions— is I believe my and every person of good faith’s duty.

Today, April 19, 2018, we mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Mireille Knoll’s murder haunts me. It is a painful reminder (as if we needed one) of the face of antisemitism in France today, where a helpless and sick 85-year-old Holocaust survivor can be killed in her apartment for one reason only: because she is Jewish.

President Macron's words demonstrate a growing awareness of this scourge at the highest levels of government and a determination to take a stand. So why is it that despite such admirable statements I feel a disheartening and wearying déjà vu?

AJC Europe Director Simone Rodan-Benzaquen responds to an op-ed on Jews in France published in the New York Times.

Three years after the terror attacks against Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher, we checked in with the Paris-based Director of AJC Europe, Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, to get an update on the state of the French Jewish community.

For years, it has been nearly impossible to speak about French Muslim antisemitism.

In the French presidential campaign just concluded, discussion of foreign policy was largely forgotten.

After the first round of the French presidential elections yielded an historic and shocking result, the country is at a crossroads, divided and angry.

The 2017 presidential election is likely to be the most unpredictable in France since the beginning of the Fifth Republic.