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A group of parliamentarians in France will this week propose new legislation that will classify anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism, and therefore a crime, several French news outlets reported on Monday.
Sylvain Maillard — a deputy for France’s ruling center-right LREM party who heads the Antisemitism Study Group in the country’s National Assembly — told France Info on Monday that he and his colleagues had been examining the common roots of anti-Zionism and antisemitism “for several weeks.”
The group had concluded that “hatred of Israel is the new way of hating Jews,” Maillard said.
He continued: “We can criticize the government of Israel, but not question the very existence of this state. Nobody questions the existence of the French state or the German state.”
(full article online)
‘Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism:’ French Parliamentarians Announce New Resolution Amid Rising Antagonism Toward Jewish Community
Sylvain Maillard — a deputy for France’s ruling center-right LREM party who heads the Antisemitism Study Group in the country’s National Assembly — told France Info on Monday that he and his colleagues had been examining the common roots of anti-Zionism and antisemitism “for several weeks.”
The group had concluded that “hatred of Israel is the new way of hating Jews,” Maillard said.
He continued: “We can criticize the government of Israel, but not question the very existence of this state. Nobody questions the existence of the French state or the German state.”
(full article online)
‘Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism:’ French Parliamentarians Announce New Resolution Amid Rising Antagonism Toward Jewish Community