“Since October 7, it has sometimes become difficult for Jewish students to go to university peacefully,” warns Crif

“Since October 7, it has sometimes become difficult for Jewish students to go to university peacefully.“, said Tuesday March 19 on franceinfo the president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), Yonathan Arfi.

The Jewish institution requested on Thursday March 14 the opening of a “parliamentary commission of inquiry into anti-Semitism in higher education“in France, after criticism aimed at Sciences Po Paris, accused of allowing anti-Semitism to flourish against a backdrop of pro-Gaza student mobilization.”It is important to have a work of reflection carried out on this subject, I think that a parliamentary commission of inquiry is the right framework to do so“, he said.

The Parisian establishment has been plunged into turmoil since the incidents that occurred during the occupation of an amphitheater by around 300 pro-Palestinian activists on March 12 as part of a “day of European university mobilization for Palestine“.”Incidents which revealed a climate which weighs today in the French academic world where there is a summons, a form of ‘de-sensitization’ of Jewish students who are summoned to pronounce on the conflict in the Middle Eastregretted Yonathan Arfi. What meaning does this have, if not the ostracization, the stigmatization of Jewish students?“, he concluded.