Is preventing a student from the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) from accessing an amphitheater at Sciences Po to cries of “Don’t let her in, she’s a Zionist!” – comments reported by the UEJF – is a “derisory incident”, as Jean-Luc Mélenchon says? Does this accident constitute anti-Semitism? Was the intervention of the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, who traveled to the site and made a statement before the board of directors of the National Political Science Foundation necessary? Are we doing too much or not enough?
The students who participated in the action of the Palestine Committee of Sciences Po Paris, in the call of University Coordination against colonization in Palestine to “put an end to the genocidal war and colonization in Palestine”, all anonymously and courageously denounced the version of the student kicked out of the amphitheater, affirming that the young woman had, since the pogroms of October 7, “almost systematically gotten into altercations and had a tendency to take out her phone to film faces”, in order to send the images to CNews, which would take the opportunity to present Sciences Po students as pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic, which would cause “a wave of harassment”. Given the increase in anti-Semitic acts and remarks since October 7, we can legitimately ask ourselves where the harassment is located.
In view of the images of the neofeminist demonstration of March 8, where a group of feminists marching Also for the Jewish victims of rape and mutilation in Israel was violently attacked by other demonstrators with cries of “Palestine will live!”, or “From the sea to the Jordan”, we can wonder about the degree of harassment of which are victims all those who support victims other than Gazans.
A taste of déjà vu
Because the Sciences Po accident takes place in a context which reveals the seriousness of the event. It has a taste of déjà vu: how many times have universalists backed away from events, acts that undermined secularism as well as the republican model, considering, tactically, that it was necessary to save one’s strength for more serious matters? And not taking this context into account, not accepting the overly long series of micro-renunciations contributes to denial, which transforms into fear and paralysis.
The context is Judith Butler invited by the Georges-Pompidou Center who took the opportunity to take a trip to Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), invited by indigenist-separatists from the collective “Permanent war or revolutionary peace, you have to choose !” (a whole poem), which was associated with everything on the left in France, regularly flirting with anti-Semitism, from the NPA to Permanent Revolution. Houria Bouteldja (whom Butler introduced as a “well-known and admired Muslim feminist victim of persecution”) drank whey when Butler described October 7 as an “uprising” that could not be equated with a “terrorist act.” ” nor to an “anti-Semitic attack”. It goes without saying that screaming armed men Allahu Akbar, shoot civilians, burn entire families, rape and take pride in filming themselves in the joy of killing Jews – which they say out loud while calling their families to prove their victory – this does not is neither terrorist nor anti-Semitic (I’m being ironic, of course). Butler is waiting for evidence to denounce the rapes, because “if these allegations are documented, we deplore these acts”, but we want proof! You would think you could hear Robert Faurisson in Tehran demanding precise proof of the gas chambers. In front of three LFI deputies, Danièle Obono, Thomas Portes and Younous Omarjee, Butler, of whom I have never managed to decipher the slightest line, her essays above all expressing her hatred of herself and her shame at being born a woman and a bourgeois , predicts that she will soon be attacked, but she knows that “you will defend me.” Fabulous context where after having poured out tons of untruths and anti-Semitic hatred, she counts on a white-hot room to spread the bad word and continues to maintain the violence of all against the Jews.
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