Wilfried Devillers // Credits: NICOLAS ADAMY / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 7:53 p.m., March 12, 2024

Pro-Palestinian activists blocked a lecture theater at Sciences Po Paris this Tuesday morning, and barred a Jewish student from entering.

Europe 1 visited the site in order to better understand the unfolding of these events which raise questions about security for the establishment's Jewish students. 

A Jewish student deprived of an amphitheater.

This event took place this Tuesday morning at Sciences PO Paris where pro-Palestinian activists prevented a student from entering because she was "Zionist".

The demonstrators took over the main room of the establishment to organize a blockade in order to raise awareness about the situation in Gaza.

The movement took a sad turn when a student who was a member of the Jewish Students of France wanted to enter the amphitheater, but access was simply refused to her by the organizers of the blockade. 

“There are people who were judged as Zionists and were barred from entering. In the amphitheater, students identified as Zionists or Jews were attacked by the group of activists who followed them into the room ", Salomé, president of the Sciences Po section of the UEFJ, tells Europe 1. 

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Incidents outside the establishment 

The incidents continued outside the Parisian establishment.

Jewish students were also attacked during a pro-Palestinian rally near Sciences Po. Events revealing an increasingly tense climate for Jewish students.

“Today is really the culmination of several weeks of tension for Jewish students, who are often singled out as representatives of Israeli politics who are not safe in this very institution because we know that people look at us askance. We're all alone for group work because people don't want to work with us anymore." 

Alerted to the situation, Sciences Po Paris condemns the practices used without qualifying them as anti-Semitic.

The Minister of Higher Education went to the site where she demanded respect for the law in the establishment.