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Mosby

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Sat Mar 22, 2014, 01:19 PM Mar 2014

French university shuts down pro-Israel event amid disruption

A French university shut down a pro-Israel event after disruptions by pro-Palestinian activists.

The administration of the Paris 8 University in Saint-Denis near Paris stopped the March 14 activity of approximately 10 members of the “What Israel” group “regretfully, and because of the risk of disruption of public order,” the university said in a statement.

Videos of the event showed some 25 pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanting “Zionists out,” “Zionist killers,” “Israel, get lost, Paris 8 doesn’t belong to you.” They handed out flyers calling for a boycott of Israel and waved a large Palestinian flag while chanting “Palestine will live on” from loudspeakers. They also chanted: “No dialogue with apartheid.”

One of the demonstrators, a young woman, was filmed hitting the “What Israel” cameraman, who is heard telling her: “Don’t touch me.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/french-university-shuts-down-pro-israel-event-amid-disruption/

I guess violence works sometimes when it's aimed at the "right people".




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French university shuts down pro-Israel event amid disruption (Original Post) Mosby Mar 2014 OP
I'd have thrown the "Palestinian" demonstrators in jail asap. nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 #1
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