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France Commemorates Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Exonerated Victim of Institutional Antisemitism
(Toronto Star-Canada) Michael Levitt - On July 12, the 120th anniversary of France's highest court recognizing the innocence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, France inaugurated an annual national day of commemoration of this shameful miscarriage of justice. The Dreyfus Affair is one of history's most enduring examples of institutional antisemitism. In announcing the national day to honor Dreyfus, French President Emmanuel Macron decried that the "ancient specter" of antisemitism persists to this day. Indeed, the French Interior Ministry reported 1,320 hate crimes targeting Jews in France in 2025. The writer is president and CEO of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC).