French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin lashed out at the anti-Semitism rampant in the country 100 years ago, which he said was behind the false charges brought against Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army captain wrongfully convicted of treason. Jospin’s comments came amid a week of events marking the centennial of the publication of “J’Accuse,” a defense of Dreyfus by French writer Emile Zola.
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