The Minister of the Interior accuses the Palestine Collectif Vancra and the Palestine Action Committee, accused of “appeal to hatred, discrimination, violence” and “provocation to terrorist acts”.
Le Monde with AFP
The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin will request the dissolution of the Palestine Collective Vancra and the Palestine Action Committee, accused of “appeal to hatred, discrimination, violence” and “provocation to terrorist acts “,” he tweeted Thursday, February 24th.
The dissolution procedure, engaged at the request of President Macron, will be launched “in the coming days”, said the department to the France-Press agency (AFP).
The Palestine Collectif Vancra is accused by the Ministry of “Appeal to Hate, Discrimination and Violence”. According to the interior, this group “under cover of defending the Palestinian cause”, “cultivates the feeling of oppression of Muslim peoples (…) with the aim of disseminating the idea of international Islamophobia”. The ministry also blames him from calling “discrimination and hatred to Israel and Israelis”, especially through boycott campaigns.
“Report on the activity of terrorist organizations”
Among the last actions of the collective, based in Toulouse, a campaign “# Palestine2022” which aims to “denounce the collaboration of French governments with Apartheid Israeli” and to “invite the subject of the Palestinian cause in the debates of The presidential election “, can we read on its website.
The collective “firmly denounces this announcement which is an attack on the solidarity movement with Palestine,” said his spokesman Tom Martin. The organization is defined as “anti-racist and anticolonialist”.
The Palestine Action Committee is blamed for “relaying the releases” and “report on the activity of Palestinian terrorist organizations, including Hamas, the Movement of the Islamic Jihad in Palestine and Hezbollah”. He says “in his charter his support for all organizations against Israel, including when they make use of violence or terrorist methods,” the department points.
The Palestine Action Committee, installed in Bordeaux, according to its site, is an association working “for the realization of the national rights of the Palestinian people”, in particular “the right to return of refugees, that is to say The liberation of the Arab land of Palestine “. The association also says denounce “Zionism as a colonial and racist movement”.