A French Catholic newspaper apologized for anti-Semitic editorials it published a century ago when France was debating the case of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus. The apology from the La Croix newspaper came on the 100th anniversary of the publication of “J’Accuse,” French writer Emile Zola’s defense of Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer wrongly convicted of spying for Germany.
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