2024-04-28 23:54:32
She wants to be inflexible on anti-Semitism. The “suspension” of disciplinary procedures announced by the management of Sciences-po against students mobilized for the Palestinian cause does not concern the investigation opened in March after an accusation of anti-Semitism, the Minister of Defense stressed on Sunday. ‘Higher Education. There is “no question of lifting, reducing or removing either sanctions (for) anti-Semitism, or procedures” on this subject, said Sylvie Retailleau on BFMTV.
Pro-Palestine demonstration at Sciences Po: “There is no question of lifting sanctions on anti-Semitism”, says Minister Sylvie Retailleau pic.twitter.com/NtvnVgvTC7
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The commitment made on Friday by the management of the Parisian establishment referred to a procedure “which has no link with anti-Semitism”, linked to more recent facts, unrelated to “the unfortunate, intolerable event, of March 12.
The minister refers to the occupation, in March, of an amphitheater by students mobilized for the Palestinian cause, which resulted in an accusation of anti-Semitism from the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF ), rejected by the mobilized students. After this episode, the government contacted the prosecutor and an internal administrative investigation was also launched, which could lead to sanctions, according to the ministry.
“Chord of Shame”
Friday evening, at the end of a day of blockage and mobilization, punctuated by tensions, the management of Sciences-po notably announced the “suspension of referrals to the disciplinary section initiated since April 17”. She also committed to organizing an internal debate by Thursday.
“Universities must remain a place of debate, but debate is not blockage (and) is not illegitimate demands,” observed Sylvie Retailleau on the subject of student mobilization. “Claims about a call for an academic boycott (of) ties with Israeli entities (or) investigations into partnerships, well no. There is no question of going back on demands that I call illegitimate,” she said. “What Sciences-po proposed was to try to set up a measured debate where controversy is possible, the distressing spectacle that we saw on Friday was not a debate,” according to her.
The head of the Les Républicains (LR) list in the European elections François-Xavier Bellamy criticized the Minister of Higher Education on Sunday for having supported an “agreement of shame” between the management of Sciences-po and the demonstrators. He also asked the government to consider stopping public subsidies to Sciences-po Paris, interviewed at the Grand rendez-vous CNews, Europe 1, Les Échos.
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