A French court issued a bizarre decision: two Tunisian men, both illegal migrants with criminal records, cut down an olive tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, the young Jewish man whom a gang of twenty Muslims kidnapped, tortured for several weeks, and finally left to die. The men were convicted of destroying property, but acquitted of any antisemitic motive. French Jews are outraged. More on the court’s decision can be found here.
Tunisian twin brothers in France were sentenced to eight months in prison each for allegedly cutting down an olive tree planted to honor Ilan Halimi, the French Jewish man tortured to death nearly a decade ago. However, the two men were acquitted of antisemitism charges filed against them, prompting outrage among
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