Located in the south of France, the Palestine collective will defeat and the Palestine Action Committee, which profess a radical anti -Zionism, are accused of “calling for hatred, violence and discrimination”. They dispute the government’s decision.
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The Council of State promises to be, Tuesday, April 26, the theater of a very sharp debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the inflamed phraseology which it sometimes arouses. The highest administrative jurisdiction must look at the appeal filed by two Propalestinian associations against the dissolution of which they were the subject, following a decree taken in the Council of Ministers, March 9.
The measure had been announced two weeks earlier, on February 24, a few hours before the annual dinner of the Representative Council of the Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. The associations implicated, the Palestine collective will defeat and the Palestine Action Committee, two small structures located in the south of France which profess radical anti -Zionism, are accused of calling for “hatred, violence and discrimination” . By the voice of their lawyers, they intend to contest the order of closure targeting them, which they appear to a questioning of freedom of expression.
“It is an abject political maneuver, which instrumentalizes the fight against anti -Semitism, which is a necessary fight, in the same way as the fight against all racisms, to silence the opponents of the Israeli government”, proclaims Tom Martin, an unemployed thirty -something who is the main manager of the Palestine collective will defeat. “It has been several years that there has been the temptation to criminalize anti-Zionism, and Macron has taken action, for electoral reasons among others,” said Tayeb al-Mestari, a 56-year-old official, Chairman of the Committee Palestine action.
“Nazi Jewish State”
The Palestine collective defeated, created in 2019 in Toulouse, had before its dissolution a dozen active members, one of the main activities of which consisted in holding an information stand in the city center. Clearly marked on the far left, he is not mystery of his sympathies for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (FPLP). This small organization combining Arabic nationalism and Marxism is classified terrorist by the European Union – a legacy of its embezzlement of the 1970s. But since the end of the second Intifada (2000-2005), it is especially active within Palestinian civil society.
The Palestine Action Committee, for its part, emerged in 2004, in Bordeaux, of a break with a more association in the center of the French Propalestinian galaxy, Palestine 33. Of a very modest size too, it is positioned as a purist of the cause, willingly critical of all those who do not share their line.
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