Gaza at Sciences Po. Around sixty students blocked the Emile Boutmy amphitheater at Sciences Po Paris between 8 a.m. and noon this Tuesday morning.
A label renamed the room
“Gaza”
and Palestinian keffiyehs were hung on the doors.
Inside, a Palestinian flag, red triangle, black stripe above a white stripe and a green stripe was hung on a ledge.
Three others were projected on the screens.
At midday, activists chanted
“Don’t let her in, she’s a Zionist
,” according to the Union of Jewish Students of France.
“Sciences Po deplores an action and the practices used, which deliberately fall outside the framework set in terms of commitment and associative life. The administration reserves the right to immediately refer certain students to the disciplinary section
,” the management of Sciences Po confides to Le
Figaro
.
"Palestine will win"
“Far-left associations occupied the historic amphitheater. This would aim to organize times for 'debates', including one on the theme of 'Judaism and anti-Zionism', as well as to ask the administration to take positions against Israel's actions in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. We ask the administration to react firmly to the organizers of this disorder
,” reacted to Le
Figaro
, Quentin Coton, head of the UNI union at Sciences Po. This action, the authors of which are not known, is intended to support for a European day of “university mobilization for Palestine”, organized this March 12 in Europe.
At Sciences Po Menton, pro-Palestinian leaflets caused controversy on October 10 by equating Hamas terrorists with
“Palestinian resistance fighters from Gaza”
.
The National Rally MP, Alexandra Masson, then denounced an apology for terrorism.
Around fifty students in favor of the Palestinians and from the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) clashed in front of the school gates on November 29.
If pro-Palestine demonstrations are regular in and in front of the IEP, this was the first time that a clash between the two camps took place.
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More recently, on February 29, a few students gathered to unfurl a Palestinian flag on the grounds of the establishment.
“Palestine will live, Palestine will win
,” these activists chanted.
Anti-Semitic acts have jumped 1000% in France, according to the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), since the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7.
Israel has since launched a counterattack in the Palestinian exclave of Gaza to
“destroy Hamas”
, in the words of the Israeli prime minister.
More than 30,000 people have died, according to the Hamas health ministry.