Paris university moves conference featuring Jewish philosopher over threats and fear

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No war was ever won on the defense. France is spinning out of control.

Paris university moves conference featuring Jewish philosopher due to threat of protests

(JTA) — A conference featuring an address by Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was moved from a Paris university following threats of protests.

The event on Europe’s future was moved at the last moment to the IPAG Business School near Sciences Po university, the original location, and held Tuesday under heavy security. Protesters tried to block access to IPAG but were held at bay by police.

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“Security is our top priority and it’s preferable to take no risks,” organizers of the event at Sciences Po wrote Tuesday in saying they were canceling the conference before it was moved.

The event included other speakers, but they were not named in the letter threatening protests. Finkielkraut was accosted recently on a Paris street for being a “Zionist.”

In their statement, the authors of the call to demonstrate outside Sciences Po wrote: “We cannot accept Finkielkraut’s ‘modern Europe’ and his islamophobic, racist, sexist and homophobic rhetoric.” A Sciences Po spokesperson called the group “far-left.”

The university recently canceled an event on “Israeli apartheid,” which the protesters alleged as showing a pro-Israeli bias by faculty.

Finkielkraut is a centrist thinker who has criticized the far right, as well as Muslim communities and far-left activists, for failing to integrate. A best-selling author, Finkielkraut entered the pantheon of French academia in 2016 when he was admitted into the Academie Francaise, a council of 40 greats elected for life.

A Zionist supporter of Israel, he is a member of the dovish J Call group styled after the J Street lobby in the United States.

In February, police extracted Finkielkraut from a hostile crowd after he was recognized on the street by participants of so-called yellow vests demonstrations over the cost of living. His assailants called him a “dirty Zionist” and told him to “go back to Tel Aviv.”

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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Winston Churchill:
How much longer are we going to appease Islam
as it destroys centuries of hard won freedoms?

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Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

Wow, izslumophobic, homophobic, and racist … Sounds like someone I’d like to meet for drinks. Of course, I’d ask if it was permissible to take notes.

Thurston Howell III
Thurston Howell III
4 years ago

while their country becomes overrun with 7th-century third-world illiterates, the French do still keep one of their most famous traditions alive!

COWARDICE.

congratulations frogs on keeping true to your yellow bellies!

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
4 years ago

Napoleon did put a temporary halt to the massacres. But he was not French.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
4 years ago

The only enemy we have to fear is fear itself!

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
4 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

A self controlled fear of the enemy is necessary for victory as the caution thus generated
will produce common sense rather than foolish bravado.

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
4 years ago

FRANCE IS FINI

The cowards have surrendered their heritage and freedoms and culture without the slightest of any kind of battle or opposition.

From Vintage wine to Camel Urine without lifting a finger.

Marc
Marc
4 years ago
Reply to  Mickey Oberman

Straight to the point. But Le Grande Nation was
already submitting when Hitler ratted his sabers.

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
4 years ago
Reply to  Marc

Yes. And France ran for help to its allies just as they did in WW 1.
We allies of today’s France can expect the same from today’s France.
But we must be very cautious. Islam presents a horde of killers with absolutely no morals at all.

The Jews of today;s France have received more than enough advance warnings.
Their choice is now flee or die.

Marc
Marc
4 years ago
Reply to  Mickey Oberman

That’s the way it is, Mickey. Such cowardice is not only frightening, but raises the essential question of whether these alleged “heirs” ever deserved their great cultural heritage when
they prove so incapable of protecting it and preserving it for the good of their descendants.

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
4 years ago
Reply to  Marc

Thank you, Marc, for your truth and clarity.

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

Cowards!

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