The motion has been embroiled in controversy over the previous six months after refusing to label Hamas a “terrorist” group, as a substitute describing the Oct. 7 assault as a “battle crime.”
Sciences Po counts French President Emmanuel Macron amongst its alumni and is named a breeding floor for the French political class. Just a few dozen members of the Unbowed scholar department there confronted off with activists from UNI, a scholar union with historically robust ties with the conservative Les Républicains celebration and the Nemesis collective, an Islamophobic far-right group that formally promotes girls’s rights.
“Unbowed France and the far-left are corrupting universities,” UNI consultant Yvenn Le Coz advised reporters.
The anti-Mélenchon college students chanted calls to rid universities of “Islamo-leftism” because the opposing activists replied with anti-fascist and anti-Israel slogans.
As Mélenchon made his means towards the college a person confronted him, accusing the 72-year-old politician of being “complicit of Hamas.” The following convention was additionally briefly interrupted by protesters.
Throughout the occasion, Mélenchon doubled down on his pro-Palestinian stance, extending his ideas to folks in Gaza “being massacred like objects,” earlier than presenting his newest e book, printed final 12 months, which calls to motion in direction of a “civic revolution.
