France has paused their program to evacuate people from Gaza after it discovered that a young Palestinian woman it had enrolled at one of their universities has a history of vile and inflammatory antisemitic social media posts.
Someone could have saved them a lot of trouble by pointing to various other examples of this.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, pictured above, has been outspoken on this.
CNN reports:
France halts all evacuations from Gaza over alleged antisemitic reposts by Palestinian studentThe French government will deport a Gaza student accused of reposting alleged antisemitic content on her social media and halt all evacuations from the territory, the country’s foreign minister said Friday as outrage grows over her reposts.“She must leave the country. She does not have a place in France,” Jean-Noël Barrot said in an interview with radio station France Info, without saying if authorities would return the student back to Gaza.The foreign minister did not name the woman, who has also been expelled from her university in the northern French city of Lille.The incident has sparked a political firestorm, dominating French news coverage with the interior minister saying her content amounts to “Hamas propaganda.”The French and Israeli vetting of her before she arrived in France did not reveal the “antisemitic and unacceptable” posts, Barrot said, adding that all French evacuations from Gaza would now be suspended pending the results of an inquiry into the case.
BBC News has more:
The woman, who arrived in France in July, was due to start attending classes at Sciences Po Lille university in the autumn.She has since been deregistered, the university has said.France’s Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau wrote on X that he had requested for the account to be closed, legal action to be taken. “Hamas propagandists have no place in our country,” he added.Palestinians already in France through this scheme will be “subject to a new check” following “failures that brought this young woman here”, Mr Barrot added.He said that security checks carried out by state services and Israeli authorities did not detect these “unacceptable and concerning remarks”.
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