American Jewish Leaders Should Exercise Prudence When Engaging Israel’s Domestic Debates
More than American Jewry has maintained Israel, Israel has maintained American Jewry.
February 13, 2023
France’s Chief Rabbi Brokered a Compromise between Michel Houellebecq and Muslim Leaders
A novelist, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a courtroom.
Perhaps France’s leading novelist, Michel Houellebecq is no stranger to controversy—especially when it comes to his pronouncements about, and literary depictions of, Islam in his country. Thus his prediction in an interview late last year that in France soon “whole areas will be under Islamic control,” and that non-Muslims will respond with violence, led Chems-Eddine Hafiz, the rector of Paris’s Grand Mosque, to file a complaint against him for “community violence incitement.” Michel Gurfinkiel provides some background, and explains how the chief rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, convinced Hafiz to relent:
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