To defuse tensions and deconstruct prejudice between Jewish and Muslim people in France, many dialogue initiatives have emerged, over the past twenty years, for young people.
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“In Egypt, from time to time, we say” to have a Jewish heart “. It means that you have no soul, that you have a heart of stone”. One winter afternoon, in 2018, in a social center of 17 e arrondissement, a Parisian teenager confides. By swinging nonchalantly on his chair, he also reports that his uncle “said that Hitler, what he did was good”. These violent words are filmed by Hanna Assouline’s camera. The documentary filmmaker followed The tour of Jewish and Muslims activists from SOS-Racisme , who have gone to meet adolescents throughout France to talk about tensions and prejudices between these two populations. She made it a film, in our turn ! (Gogogo Film, Chaï Chaï Films, France Télévisions, 2020, 52 minutes).
Four years later, one of the young people met in Paris, Hamynata Gueret, remembers this exchange during which “there was no judgment. No questions was stupid. Everyone had time to express himself “. She was 14 years old at the time of the documentary, and remembers very well the testimonies of her comrades about pre -regional anti -Semitism in their entourage. It had surprised him. “In my family, it’s not a subject,” said this young Muslim. The stories of young Jews engaged in SOS-Raccism also marked it. “At that time, I had a self -centered vision. As a young black and Muslim, I did not imagine that people from another community could experience discrimination like us, and feel them in such a strong way.”
Act “Before everyone locks himself in his adult life”
Number of dating and dialogue initiatives have emerged over the past twenty years, intended for young Jews and Muslims, to fight against an increasingly fragmented society and/or in reaction to special events. The association of interconvictional dialogue coexister was for example founded to The rest of the Israeli military operation “hardened” in Gaza in 2009, which had aroused clashes between Pro-Palestinians and Pro-Israelis, in Paris. It is also the anti-Semitic murder of Mireille Knoll by her young neighbor, in March 2018 in Paris, which motivated the launch of the tour of SOS-racism, under the name of “Salam, Shalom, Salut”.
These projects are particularly aimed at adolescents or young adults, ages “where we are very influenced, explains Mohamed Amine, mediator at Judeo-Muslim friendship of France (AJMF) , an association created in 2004 by the Rabbi of Ris-Orangis, Michel Serfaty. We are in A turn between childhood and maturity, and this is where it is important to transmit values, convictions “. “It is an open period, before everyone locks himself in their adult life, believes in turn Radia Bakkouch, president of the association Co -Ex. of society, and at the same time we are thirsty to try to understand what the other lives. It’s time to meet diversity. “
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