Controversy at Sciences Po: “A climate of anti-Semitism has taken hold in our country,” says Yaël Braun-Pivet

A student from the Union of Jewish Students of France turned away from an amphitheater at Sciences Po to cries of: “She’s a Zionist!” The case became controversial after pro-Palestinian students occupied an amphitheater at the Parisian establishment and filtered the students who could enter. Gabriel Attal, the Prime Minister, announced that the government would take legal action, while the school management announced that it would open an administrative investigation.

Targeting a part of the population

Invited this Thursday morning on the set of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews, the President of the National Assembly describes this act as “unacceptable, intolerable”. “Universities, major schools are places of learning. They are places where we train our youth. We must not transform these places into places of unbridled activism. It is not acceptable either that very courageous young activists cover their faces to carry out their act of activism. This must be done with their faces uncovered.” Before adding: “Performing these acts of racism and anti-Semitism anywhere in society, but even more so in a university”, is not acceptable.

The President of the National Assembly believes that “a climate of anti-Semitism has taken hold in our country, not only in our universities”. And to conclude: “With the President of the Senate, a few months ago, we organized a large Republican citizens’ march against anti-Semitism. It’s good because at the moment, there are certain people who, on the one hand, want to import a conflict that is taking place today in the Middle East and on the other hand, use this conflict as a pretext to target a part of the population and engage in anti-Semitic acts and remarks.”