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Sciences Po University in Paris closes due to new power grab by pro-Palestinian activists

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(Radio France Internationale). Main headquarters of the city Science in Paris woke up from a police cordon this Friday, while all the premises of the prestigious French elite

Sciences Po University in Paris closes due to new power grab by pro-Palestinian activists

(Radio France Internationale). Main headquarters of the city Science in Paris woke up from a police cordon this Friday, while all the premises of the prestigious French elite university They remained closed.

On Thursday evening dozens pro-Palestinian militants They seized a school building on Rue Saint-Guillaume in the city center. Paris.

Activities carried out by students in support of A loop occur mainly in Sciences Po institutions throughout France, but very few in universities, while in the United States the campuses of some forty universities They are experiencing a wave of mobilizations with strong intervention police.

Young people take part in the occupation of the street in front of the University of Sciences Po in Paris | Reuters

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On Place de la Sorbonne, a few hundred meters from Sciences Po Paris, Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) announced that it will hold “dialogue table” most of the day with several guests, including cartoonist Joan Sfar (“Rabbi’s Cat”).

“We want to show that this is not true, that we cannot talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To do this, we must reject those who point to Jewish students as accomplices of genocide,” UEJF President Samuel Lejoyer said on Radio J.

In Lille, entrance to ESJ (Lille Graduate School of Journalism) was still blocked. Students who came to take their exams at Sciences Po Lille entered through the back of the building after their student ID cards were checked.

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Young people take part in the occupation of the street in front of the University of Sciences Po in Paris | Reuters

On Thursday evening the management of Sciences Po Paris, which has between 5000 and 6000 students in the capital – announced the closure of its main premises and invited students and employees to work remotely.

Following an internal leadership debate on the Middle East on Thursday morning that Palestinian Committee students found “disappointing,” they organized “peaceful sitting” in the school lobby, and six of them went on a hunger strike “in solidarity with the Palestinian victims.”

At the end of a two-hour debate attended by faculty and students, the school’s interim administrator Jean Basser confirmed that he would not concede to an “investigation” into Sciences Po’s relationship with Israeli universities, as some students had demanded.

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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