Despite the cold, several dozen Sciences Po students were in front of their campus “from 6:45 a.m.“, this Friday morning, in Poitiers. First and second year political science students came to demonstrate “in support of the Palestinian people, who for several months now have been victims of genocide”. Sitting under a blue canvas, computers sometimes on their knees, everyone asked to remain anonymous. However, a public meeting was organized in Paris between the management of the IEP and student activists on Thursday May 2. A debate which will not have succeeded in calming tensions. One of the young people, present during the town hallhas the feeling “not to be heard by the administration. We have had no positive response to our demands”. Among them, “the end of the intervention of the police at Sciences Po and in the universities” And the opening of a commission of inquiry into IEP partnerships with Israeli universities. “We are concerned about possible human rights violations and that these universities may support the Israeli government”develops a student. The group also calls for condemnation of the ongoing genocide in Gaza “which is recognized by the International Court of Justice,” she adds..
Clémentine Prouteau
“We want to fight against all types of discrimination”
Some of the young people present condemn the expulsion of activists by the police in Paris and denounces “an attack on freedom of expression“. “Our movement takes place in a pacifist context, without damage or excesses”. “Today we often deplore young people who lack commitment. We prove that this is not the case: students continue to engage. “. Another student, in his first year, wants “that the political spheres stop discrediting us and criminalizing our action, all by saying false things. All accusations of anti-Semitism, of apologizing for terrorism. We want to fight against all types of discrimination, whether it is anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism.”he adds.
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