France: Emmanuel Macron harshly criticizes university blockades by pro-Palestinian students

The President of France, Emmanuel Macroncondemns “with the utmost firmness” the blockades of certain university centers by pro-Palestinian students who demand measures against Israel for its attacks on Link.

In an interview with the newspapers La Tribune Dimanche and La Provence, Macron is “in favor” of the evacuation of these blockades by the authorities when requested by the management of the centers.

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This Friday the Sciences Po centers in Paris and Lyon were evacuated, as groups of students pro-Palestinian They were blocked, preventing the normal development of activities.

The head of state said he understood that the situation in Link caused a commotion and that, in this regard, his country calls for “an immediate ceasefire”, but at the same time insisted that “preventing debate has never helped in resolving a conflict”.

In his opinion, it is “legitimate and even healthy and reassuring” for young people to feel concerned about current international events and want to debate, but not for them to try to impose certain policies on universities “by force and blockade”.

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“Preventing other students from having access to an amphitheater on the pretext that they are Jews is not republican,” he said, alluding to one of the censorships that were made against some of the activists who mobilized at Sciences Po or the Sorbonne.

For MacronThe students who resorted to blockades are “politicized” and follow the line of formations such as La Francia Insumisa by radical left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

“It is simply counterproductive and unacceptable for them to prevent debate in the name of their struggles”, he complained.

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The mobilizations in recent days at French universities, until now very minority in scope, have reproduced a movement that began in the United States with a much larger number of followers.

As in the United States, these protests demand a change in their respective governments’ stance in support of Israel.

Source: Elcomercio

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