Union des étudiants juifs de France
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The Union des étudiants juifs de France ("Union of French Jewish students", UEJF) is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 organization whose aim is to assist French Jewish students.

It was founded in 1944 to assist young Jews who came back from concentration camps or, more generally, who had escaped the Holocaust.

The organization is best known to the general public for a number of high-profile lawsuits that it brings against people or organizations that it deems to support antisemitism, such as the case of LICRA v. Yahoo!
LICRA v. Yahoo!
Ligue contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme et Union des étudiants juifs de France c. Yahoo! Inc. et Société Yahoo! France is a French court case decided by the High Court of Paris in 2000. The case concerned the sale of memorabilia from the Nazi period by internet auction and the application of...

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