US EditionMacron Announces Dreyfus Memorial Day Amid Rising Anti-Semitism
FRANCE, JUL 12 – France will annually honor Alfred Dreyfus on July 12 to mark justice prevailing over antisemitism, amid 504 anti-Semitic acts reported in 2025, officials said.
- French President Emmanuel Macron declared July 12 as an annual national commemoration day honoring Alfred Dreyfus, starting in 2026.
- The declaration follows a long history of Dreyfus being falsely accused of treason in 1894 amid broad antisemitism and a divisive trial process.
- Despite his initial conviction and sentencing to life on Devil’s Island, evidence uncovered by Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart led to Dreyfus's retrial in 1899 and final exoneration in 1906.
- On June 2, all 197 members of France's National Assembly present voted in favor of elevating Alfred Dreyfus posthumously to the rank of brigadier general, marking a symbolic effort to rectify the historic wrong done to him.
- This commemoration and promotion aim to affirm justice and combat antisemitism amid rising anti-Jewish acts, with over 500 incidents reported in early 2025 alone in France.
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday declared July 12 a national day of remembrance in honor of Alfred Dreyfus, who was wrongly convicted of treason in a notorious anti-Semitic case in 1894.
France to mark annual Dreyfus memorial day: 'Victory of justice over antisemitism'
French President Emmanuel Macron announced that every year on July 12, the date on which Alfred Dreyfus was acquitted of treason, France will memorialize him; The trial of Dreyfus, who was convicted and initially sentenced to life in prison, has become a symbol of antisemitism
The Dreyfus affair was one of the greatest political scandals in French history and exposed the deep-rooted anti-Semitism in France.
Emmanuel Macron announced this Saturday that on July 12, he became a national day of commemoration for Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted and then rehabilitated in 1906, and his fight for justice.
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