The Paris administrative court rejected, on Wednesday 12 November, a request for temporary relief filed against the decision of the administrators of the Collège de France prohibiting the holding of a scientific conference entitled “Palestine and Europe: the burden of past and present dynamics”. The judge assessed that, as long as the event organizers were successful in holding the event on the same dates, Thursday 13 and Friday 14 November, with live broadcast of the debate via video conference, “there have been no serious and clearly illegal attacks on freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and academic freedom, for example, to justify the intervention of a summary judge within forty-eight hours”.
But the judge acknowledged that the conference would take place under certain conditions “significantly degraded, especially in terms of room size, compared to the original plan” : it will be held at the headquarters of the Center for Research and Studies of Arab Politics in Paris (Carep) which can only accommodate 35 people while the Collège de France amphitheater has 460 seats.
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