US EditionFrance to Grant Alfred Dreyfus Posthumous Brigadier General Rank
- On June 2, 2025, France’s National Assembly committee responsible for defense gave unanimous support to a proposal to honor Captain Alfred Dreyfus with a posthumous promotion to brigadier general.
- The bill follows the wrongful 1894 conviction of Dreyfus for treason amid widespread antisemitism in the French military and society.
- Despite enduring five years of exile on Devil's Island and public disgrace, Dreyfus was exonerated in 1906, reinstated to the army, and served in World War I.
- The bill highlights that the five years Dreyfus spent in exile and disgrace caused lasting damage to his military trajectory and emphasizes that promoting him now would serve as a meaningful correction of this wrong.
- This posthumous promotion symbolizes France's ongoing commitment to combat antisemitism and honors Dreyfus' patriotism while warning against present-day hate.
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History: Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of espionage in 1895. Now the French parliament makes him a general. Ninety years after his death…
French politicians unanimously supported the promotion of a Jewish captain in the French army to brigadier general.
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The gesture was meant as a signal against antisemitism — the resurgence of which in France Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently attributed to the French government.The post French Parliament moves to promote Alfred Dreyfus appeared first on JNS.org.
The French parliament has unanimously passed a bill to promote Alfred Dreyfus to the rank of general, with the aim of completing his rehabilitation 130 years after his conviction.
About 130 years after his unlawful conviction, the French soldier Alfred Dreyfus is to be posthumously appointed Brigadier General.
At the turn of the 20th century, the "Dreyfus affair" became a symbol in France of the fight against anti-Semitism.
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