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Why France Refuses to Prosecute an Antisemitic Murderer
A January 2019 demonstration for Sarah Halimi in Paris, France. (Fred VIELCANET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Sarah Halimi was beaten and thrown from her window. Her killer will go free because he smoked weed.
By Bari Weiss
04.15.21 — International
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In a normal world, everyone would know the name Sarah Halimi.

It’s understandable if you don’t. The press didn’t obsessively cover her murder the way they cover other hate crimes — for reasons I will explain.

Sarah Halimi was a retired French physician and schoolteacher. She was also an Orthodox Jew. On April 4, 2017, Halimi was in her Paris apartment wh…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press, host of the podcast Honestly, and editor-in-chief of CBS News. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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