Less than 24 hours after the alleged anti-Semitic incident, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal appeared unannounced at a board meeting of the National Foundation for Political Science (FNSP), which is responsible for Science Po's administrative and financial strategy. The university's leadership stated: Measures must be taken to counter “active and dangerous minorities.”
Subsequently, the university's deans and research center directors objected to the prime minister's surprise visit, expressing their “indignation in the strongest terms” in a statement released on Monday, saying, “No politician should ever “We should not take any action that would undermine our principles.” independence and freedom. ”
Concerns about the importation of American-style campus warfare, with its political proxy wars stemming from the Israel-Hamas war, appear to be spurring the government's swift intervention.
“We will never allow French universities to become mouthpieces for a North American ideology that promotes intolerance, rejects debate and restricts freedom of expression under the guise of modernity,” Attal, also a graduate of the Polytechnic Institute, said in a speech on Tuesday. mentioned in. Question period in Parliament.
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The controversy at Sciences Po comes after one of the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) was barred from entering an auditorium occupied by pro-Palestinian students during a solidarity event on March 12. The announcement gained momentum.
“UEJF students are being targeted as Jews and Zionists.” the organization wrote in the post X, formerly known as Twitter.
