Nearly 3,000 demonstrators turned out to voice their anger at the “Israel is forever” gala held in Paris on Wednesday, November 13. On everyone’s lips: the name of Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s ultra-nationalist Finance Minister, who was expected to attend.
On the way from the Gare Saint Lazare, the meeting point, to the Place de la République in Paris, a single phrase was on everyone’s lips this Wednesday, November 13: “It’s a disgrace.
The organization by the radical French Jewish association “Israel is forever” of a gala presented by its organizers as the “mobilization of French-speaking Zionist forces in the service of Israel’s power and history”. in Paris, on the eve of the soccer match between France and the Hebrew State at the Stade de France, announced to be under high tension, did not go down well. “A few hundred meters from here [le lieu est tenu secret, NDLR] is a gala apology for the genocide in Gaza”.asserts Fatiha. With her grey hair pulled back, her hands stuffed into her coat pockets and a black and white keffiyeh – the symbol of Palestinian nationalism – draped over her shoulders, the demonstrator is adamant: “To welcome is to condone”..
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