A Paris university has withdrawn permission for a Palestine solidarity conference at the behest of the Zionist lobby.
In a statement
issued today, the authorities at the University of Paris 8 said that
the title of the conference – “Israel: an apartheid state?” – was “of a
strongly polemical character.” Because there had been strong reactions
to its theme, the university predicted there could be a “serious risk
posed to public order” if the event scheduled for 27 and 28 February
went ahead.
The complaint
against the conference was made by the representative council for
Jewish organizations in France, or CRIF as it’s better known. It had
objected to the participation of Omar Barghouti, coordinator of the
Palestinian campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against
Israel.
