The deputies notably restored article 3, deleted in committee, creating a “common disciplinary section” to establishments of the same academic region.
Published the 08/05/2025 11:36 Reading time: 2min
The deputies approved at first reading on Wednesday, May 7, a senatorial bill aimed at combating anti -Semitism and racism in higher education. The text, carried by the deputies Constance Le Grip (Renaissance) and Pierre Henriet (Horizons), was adopted (131 votes for, 28 against). Only rebellious France and the Communist group opposed it. It was unanimously approved in the Senate on February 20.
-The National Assembly has notably restored article 3, deleted in committee, creating a “common disciplinary section” to establishments of the same academic region. A government amendment said it could only be seized by the president or director of each establishment, not by the Rector of the Region, with the ambition to respond to concerns about the autonomy of establishments.
The bill followed an information mission launched in the Senate after the charges of anti-Semitism having accompanied the holding of a pro-Palestinian conference in Sciences Po Paris. “Not a single student should hesitate to go to class because he is afraid of being exposed to anti -Semitism”had hammered Tuesday, at the opening of the discussions, the Minister of Higher Education Philippe Baptiste.
The debates stretched out from the first day of the debates. Reproaching the government “To instrumentalize anti -Semitism to silence the voices for peace on genocide in Palestine”the rebellious group was in return accused of contributing to the rise of anti -Semitism and electoral opportunism.
Different from the version adopted in the Senate, the text will now be entrusted to a mixed parliamentary commission to try to find a compromise between the two chambers.
