Dreyfus trial

US-Saudi F35 sale, Dreyfus posthumously promoted - November 19, 2025

The Jerusalem Post's must-listen news roundup with Shifra Jacobs—the top stories, clear and concise. 

US President Donald Trump meets with Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman, November 18, 2025.
French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus (1859 - 1935), falsely accused of selling military secrets to Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island.

After wrongful treason conviction 130 years ago, France promotes Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus

 A statue of Alfred Dreyfus is seen in Mulhouse, eastern France, October 9, 2025

July 12 to be French national day of commemoration of Alfred Dreyfus, Macron announces

Alfred Dreyfus

Captain Alfred Drefyus to be posthumously promoted to Brigadier-General, 90 years after death


'Theodor' returns to Israeli Opera

The opera attempts to answer why and how Zionism – and our own existence as Hebrew-speaking Jews in Israel – emerged.

 Theodor

This week in Jewish history: Babylonians besiege Jerusalem, Zola publishes 'J’accuse'

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

 Babylonian forces destroy Jerusalem in this 19th-century painting by James Tissot.

This week in Jewish history: The Dreyfus Affair and birth of Zionism

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

Alfred Dreyfus

ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu violate Rome Statute - opinion

Israel should appeal and insist the ICC drop the arrest warrants, to reinforce the fact that the Israeli legal system is functioning, not collapsing.

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a state memorial ceremony for victims of terror, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, May 13, 2024.

Have the lessons of the Dreyfus Affair been learnt 130 years on? - analysis

Over a century after the Dreyfus Affair, antisemitism persists globally. From false accusations to dual loyalty tropes, modern incidents raise concerns about lessons unlearned.

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Porto is an example for reestablishing a Jewish community - opinion

We must find new and innovative ways of ensuring Jewish existence in all parts of our continent for generations to come.

 DIRECTOR OF the Porto Holocaust Museum, Michael Rothwell, clasping his hands, and Israel’s Ambassador to Portugal Dor Shapira, looking on, host Portuguese children from around the country on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Porto Jews push to posthumously reinstate 'Portuguese Dreyfus' into army

Arthur Carlos Barros Basto was a Portuguese Army officer who was declared “immoral” in June 1937 for helping returning descendants of Jews to become circumcised.

 Scenes from the movie "Sefarad" about the Portuguese Dreyfus.

Infamous antisemitic Dreyfus Affair documents for sale

Many pieces of history from the Rennes trial will be up for auction, including courtroom sketches of Dreyfus' wife Lucie, Captain Alfred Dreyfus himself and French officer Georges-Marie Picquart.

Alfred Dreyfus

French parliamentary report on the Sarah Halimi murder case reopens the wound it sought to heal

A parliamentary committee led by French Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib found that police officers arrived on the scene of the 2017 murder before it occurred but did not stop it.

Protesters gather in Jerusalem against the French ruling in the Sarah Halimi murder case, April 25, 2021.

Alan Shatter is Ireland's Alfred Dreyfus - opinion

Shatter was accused of conspiring with Ireland’s police commissioner to ignore complaints made by a police whistleblower. A judicial inquiry determined that allegation untrue.

Alan Shatter.

The Alfred Dreyfus Museum opens in France

French President Emmanuel Macron has inaugurated near Paris what is believed to be the world’s first museum on the wrongful and antisemitic persecution of the late army captain Alfred Dreyfus.

Alfred Dreyfus, circa 1894