A member of the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) prevented from accessing the amphitheater and palpable tensions.
The management of Sciences-po and the Minister of Higher Education Sylvie Retailleau condemned on Tuesday the mobilization of a group of students who occupied an amphitheater of the Parisian establishment in support of the Palestinians.
Tuesday morning, around a hundred students occupied the main amphitheater of Sciences-Po as part of a “day of European university mobilization for Palestine”, which blocked the holding of a lecture.
A UEJF student was “prevented from accessing the amphitheater” where the action took place, and “accusatory remarks were made (from the platform, Editor’s note) against” the student association , denounced Sciences-po on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
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— Sciences Po (@sciencespo) March 12, 2024
The management “will contact the disciplinary section with a view to sanctioning these intolerable actions,” she adds.
“We consider that several red lines have been crossed,” she said.
“Atmospheric anti-Semitism”
“Our establishments are places of study and debate (…).
It is intolerable and shocking to suffer the slightest discrimination, the slightest incitement to hatred,” condemned the Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau on the social network X, who visited the site.
Our establishments are places of study and debate.
The law must be strictly respected.
It is intolerable and shocking to suffer the slightest discrimination, the slightest incitement to hatred.
I just went to @sciencespo to check in with management.… pic.twitter.com/MZbM8g9HFp
— Sylvie Retailleau (@sretailleau) March 12, 2024
“Limit crossed at Sc Po (…).
The UEJF students are being attacked as Jews and Zionists,” denounced the student association on of atmosphere”.
“What happened has a name: anti-Semitism,” writes Aurore Bergé, Minister for Equality between Women and Men, also on X.
What happened has one name: anti-Semitism.
Asking people's names, screening them at the entrance, assimilating their names (!!!) to the policy of the Israeli government...
It's unbearable and illegal.
Nothing will ever justify it.
Support @uejf@sciencespo @sretaileau https://t.co/6H6YFofDQd
— Aurore Bergé (@auroreberge) March 12, 2024
According to a Sciences-po student present in the amphitheater, the UEJF student was prevented from entering “for security reasons, because she had previously intimidated pro-Palestinian students”.
“She's the only one who couldn't get in.
Other members of the UEJF attended the debates,” said this student, on condition of anonymity.