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PARIS - A letter to Pierre Hurmic, Mayor of Bordeaux from Dr. Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations, Simon WiesenthalCentre, noted, “We have learned that your municipality is creating a programme to contain antisemitism and Nazism. At first glance, we were delighted to see that you have chosen the UEJF (Unionof Jewish Students of France) as a principal partner.”
â¨â¨The letter continued, “To our dismay, you have selected a totally inappropriate group, the UJFP, that is arguably part of theproblem."
â¨â¨The Centre stressed, “The latter group is characterized
- by the well respected NGO Monitor - as a supporter of the BDS campaign (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) against the State ofIsrael. Boycott is illegal under the French Lellouche Law and is included under the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) Definition of Anitsemitism, adopted by the French NationalAssembly in December 2019.”â¨â¨
- “In the UJFP (the Union of French Jews for Peace), the ‘P’ could be presumed out of place in its perpetuation of the MiddleEast conflict by its implicit incitement to ‘stand with the resistance of the Palestinian people’...”
â¨â¨- “Their boycott campaign against the pharmaceutical company Téva, persuading French pharmacists to replace their productswith generics of another brand, would have harmed also Palestinian medical needs in the name of an irresponsible political agenda.”
â¨â¨- “In its apparent delegitimization of the right to Jewish sovereignty, UJFP denounces the ‘colonization policy of theNegev’ by the KKL - Jewish National Environment Protection Fund, whose main role is to plant trees in desolate landscapes.”â¨â¨
- “According to the French anrti-racist organization Licra, the UJFP questioned the pertinence of keeping the word ‘antisemitism’ inthe title of your 'anti-racism programme'. If so, this would reveal its true agenda. Nor can one ignore the recent diatribe of activist, Houria Bouteldja - a constant contributor to the UJFPwebsite - against the runner-up French Beauty Queen, Miss Provence, as 'guilty' due to her father being 'Israeli'. An avalanche of antisemitic hate and threats was launched against her acrosssocial media.”â¨.â¨
The letter suggested, ”Mr. Mayor, we hope that your staff made a simple typo error between the UJFP and the UEJF, an organizationthat truly combats antisemitism.”â¨â¨
The Centre added, “Bordeaux has a tragic history of Jew hatred, especially the 1942 to 1944 deportations to the Nazi deathcamps.”â¨â¨
”We urge you to resolve this matter regarding contemporary antisemitism by immediately fixing the ‘typo’ and replacing theincumbent by an organization acceptable to the victim, the French Jewish community,” concluded Samuels.
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