Youn months after the ceasefire, certainly the most critical of all, between Israel and Hamas, excessive anti-Semitic measures were formulated under the guise of condemnation of Israel. “Zionism” during demonstrations of support for Palestine increased in France. Scream “death to the Jews!” »attacks on Jewish students, class disruptions, blockades within the universities of Paris-VIII, Lyon-III, Sciences Po, etc.
Less spectacularly, slippage also occurs among university lecturers. Some excluded Jewish colleagues who apparently also attended their symposiums and conferences “sensitive”or calling them the sine qua non of condemning Israel’s genocide to demonstrate their credibility. Therefore, Jewish teachers whose research often had little to do with the situation in Gaza were sometimes excluded. Finally, still in the context of support for Palestine, performances are targeted, as happened on November 6 at the Philharmonie de Paris, on the grounds that the concert was provided by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Lahav Shani.
This slippage does not only occur in our country. Invited by the University of Rotterdam, a Jewish colleague saw his conference canceled because he had been a member of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for many years. This anti-Semitic decision was taken collectively. Lahav Shani’s concert was boycotted in Ghent (Belgium)and another was interrupted in Vienna. By placing responsibility for Israel’s policies on the Jewish people without distinction, these events fueled, in France and abroad, an anti-Semitism that was thought to have disappeared. The anti-Semitic excesses committed within the framework of support for Palestine that occurred in the early 2000s have grown since then, and have become increasingly important after October 7.
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