AA / Tunis / Salim Boussaïd
The French National Assembly adopted at first reading on Wednesday, a bill against anti -Semitism and racism at university on Wednesday.
The text was adopted, after two days of hemicycle stormy discussions, with 131 votes for and 28 votes against, while the Senate had approved it unanimously since February 20.
This bill had been initiated following events that occurred in March 2024 at Sciences Po Paris and tried “discriminatory” with regard to a Jewish student who wanted to attend a pro-Palestine conference, in a context of a war of Israeli aggression against Gaza, who was in his sixth month at the time of the facts.
The new law establishes, in particular, a “common disciplinary section” at the level of each academic region.
According to the rapporteur of the bill, which emanates from the senatorial right, the objective of the new text consists in “making the disciplinary response more effective with regard to users authors of acts or violent, hateful and discriminatory words …”
This measure was considered as an instrument in the hands of the executive to be able to exclude students from their universities, since the new text provides that the members of the regional disciplinary commissions and their mode of operation are decided by decree, therefore by the executive.
The bill was criticized by the deputies of rebellious France (LFI) who criticized the government “for instrumentalizing anti -Semitism to silence the voices for peace in Palestine”.
The left also pointed out a “vague” in the drafting of the bill, calling it as danger to social movements in the university, but also with regard to academic freedom.
Reacting to this new law in the columns of Médiapart, Léa Jules-Clément, spokesperson for the student union pointed out “a real Trojan horse opening the door to the repression of all student mobilizations (…), [notamment à] Those who mobilize for peace in Gaza “.
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