Le puissant mouvement de solidarité avec le peuple palestinien, qui se développe actuellement tant aux États-Unis qu'en Amérique Latine, en Afrique, en Asie, en Europe et aussi en France, est la cible d'une tentative de criminalisation à grande échelle visant à l'éradiquer.
The violent repression that hit him is revealing. On American campuses with hundreds of arrests. Or here with a flood of slander and amalgamations as we saw with the peaceful occupation of Sciences Po Paris treated as a criminal action.
The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet denounced Thursday morning “a climate of anti-Semitism which has taken hold” in France. She worried that universities could become “places of unbridled activism,” referring to pro-Palestinian mobilization.
Should we cry, should we laugh? Coming from a “unconditional” Netanyahu who “camped in Tel Aviv” with Eric Ciotti, symbol of the far-right, and the old thug of Betar, a fascist-Zionist shock movement, Meyer Habib, we do not is surprised at nothing.
The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher dares to resound “Sciences Po cannot become an Islamo-leftist bunker.” He denounces for good measure (or to make us laugh) “wokism, an ideology which is taking over part of the university.” Behind the rich bonhomie, the Versaillais, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Joseph Vinoy and Gaston de Galliffet.
Elisabeth Badinter, promised to Les Invalides, sees in the student movement for the ceasefire and international law “a surge of anti-Semitism” and Prime Minister Gabriel Attal denounces “the action of an active and dangerous minority which seeks to impose its rules on our students and teachers, a heartbreaking and shocking spectacle. “The Minister of Higher Education Sylvie Retailleau, like the Prime Minister and all the right-wingers, obviously blame France Insoumise…and particularly Rima Hassan who calls for an “Intifada” in the Latin Quarter and why not a “Jihad” rue Saint Guillaume? We tremble.
However, as soon as we give a voice to those primarily concerned, as France Culture did this morning, May 2, we hear a completely different story, far from the slander and stupidity, the lies and racism.
Listen to these two teachers and this Sciences Po student and you will know what the facts are. Stubborn facts, far from the verbal filth of the ruling classes and their lackeys.
What panics our leaders is history. May 68 appeared as the product of a political fermentation among the youth whose axis was solidarity with the struggle of the Vietnamese people against American imperialism. The various Vietnam Committees in high schools and universities were the crucibles of a generation of activists. The mobilization of students against the Vietnam War prefigures May 68. Commitment, committees, demonstrations, militant networks, radicalization of slogans, training in anti-imperialism, the youth learned their classes through and with solidarity for the Vietnam (Simple reminder: at least, three million five hundred thousand Vietnamese dead – 3.5 million – compared to 58,000 American dead).
Outraged by the murderous bombings, napalm, defoliants, chemical weapons like Agent Orange, which massacred civilians, children and women by the hundreds of thousands, against a people who only wanted their independence, outraged by what the Tribunal International War Crimes Tribunal, called the Russell Tribunal, named after its initiator (Bertrand Russell, Nobel Peace Prize winner), unanimously qualified its members as “genocide”*, the youth, initially students, s is raised for peace. On campuses in the United States, where four American students were killed by the police in 1970, in Europe, in France and all over the world.
For Julie Reuben, historian and professor at Harvard, the current student movement “is unheard of since the mobilizations against the Vietnam War.”
And this is what scares and enrages bourgeois governments, here and everywhere. The specter of a youth committed to the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people haunts the days and nights of the ruling classes. Because they know that when young people become aware of what colonial and imperialist wars are, of their nature, they will sooner or later question the matrix that causes these wars: capitalism.
Yesterday as today those who live are those who struggle and, as Jean-Luc Mélenchon said, the young people who stand up for Palestine “are, for us, the honor of our country”.
Source: NBH
