In February in Bobigny #Paris Jeremy Cohen a 31-year-old Jewish man was molested by 15 people for wearing a kippah. Attempting to flee, he was hit to death by a tram.
Like #SarahHalimi affair there has been no police & media attention as to not shadow the presidential elections.
On Tuesday I had the pleasure of meeting with @nadhimzahawi MP in his capacity of Secretary of State for Education at the @educationgovuk.
I outlined antisemitism at university and we discussed the importance of creating initiatives to combat it @UKLFI.
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I began the meeting with the conclusion of my speech on November 8th in Krakow at the EJA’s delegation to Auschwitz where I declared, in the presence of the SoS, that requiring universities to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism is insufficient to combat antisemitism. 2/7
Before the SoS and I’s brief encounter after my speech where I was invited to a meeting, I felt isolated and unheard because by responding to the incessant hostility and propaganda in the classroom I encountered prevarication and obfuscation from all levels of my institution. 3/7
What does antisemitism in academia look like you ask?
Here are a few quotes from my undergraduate course material at a UK university:
"Despite Zionism's chronic addiction to territorial expansion, Israel's borders do not preclude the option of removal(...its surprising that a nation that has driven so many of its original inhabitants into the sand should express fear of itself being driven into the sea"
“Palestine is a different case, first because it was colonized in twentieth century, and second, because it was colonised by people with a historical counterclaim to indigeneity”
Yesterday in Krakow, Poland, at the European Jewish Association’s 83rd delegation to Auschwitz gala dinner I addressed European vice-presidents, ministers, state secretaries, members of parliament, & Jewish leaders about the hostile anti-Jewish environment on campus
3 years ago today, 85-year-old French Jew and Shoah survivor #MireilleKnoll z"l, was slaughtered in her home in Paris by two antisemitic Islamists.
She was found with 11 stab wounds in her back, throat, and stomach, her body partially burned and her apartment in flames.
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In July 1942 she narrowly escaped the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup which was ordered by Nazi occupiers and resulted in the mass arrest of 13,000 French Jews by the French police. Those detained were held at the Vel’ d’Hiv cycling track and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp
in Poland, where the majority perished. She managed to flee with her mother & cross the border into Portugal on a Brazilian passport obtained by her father. After the war she married an Auschwitz survivor & moved to Canada before returning to Paris. They raised two sons and she