The Sciences-Po Paris student who was prevented from accessing a pro-Palestine conference on Tuesday March 12 testified this Wednesday in the columns of Le
Parisien
.
Introducing herself under the name Rachel, a pseudonym she wanted used for the interview, the 20-year-old young woman recounts what happened during that day of blockade of the Paris campus by student activists for the Palestinian cause.
This incident has since had considerable resonance and has even become an affair of state with the announcement, this Wednesday evening, of the seizure of the public prosecutor by the government to
"contribute to the investigation and contribute to the mobilization of services to determine what happened.
“You, you’re not coming back!”
Rachel says that this Tuesday, March 12, she wanted to attend this conference on Palestine.
“As soon as I arrived at the door, masked organizers blocked me.
They told me: “You, you’re not coming back!”
I asked them to explain.
They just replied: “We know you”
, she declares, specifying that she did not
“hear”
the sentence herself:
“Don’t let her in, she’s a Zionist!
»
.
However, she specifies that "
at the microphone, the organizers said: 'Attention, there is the UEJF (Union of Jewish Students of France) in the room'".
“They pride themselves on saying that they are not anti-Semitic because they do not shout “Death to the Jews”.
However, calling me a Zionist, refusing me entry to such a meeting, is anti-Semitism
,” she asserts to Le
Parisien
.
Asked about a possible recurrence of anti-Semitic acts at Sciences-Po Paris, Rachel replied:
“It was brewing, but since
October 7
, it has been a real problem.
Every day, we hear jokes, even about the Shoah.
I heard: “Ah, she’s going to get hit,” or “You’ll get a free ticket to Poland.”
The young woman remains nuanced by affirming that this is often the result of a
“very noisy minority”
which faces a
“majority which remains silent”
.