The Union of Jewish Students in France (UEJF) denounced the antisemitic assault on three Jewish students by “anti-Israel” activists at the University of Strasbourg.
The incident took place on the night of Sunday to Monday, January 29, while a UEJF activist, accompanied by two other Jewish students, was putting up posters calling for the release of Hamas hostages and the phrase “No to antisemitism” near the University of Strasbourg’s law campus.
The group was verbally threatened by an anti-Israel activist, presumably a student on the campus, who was present at the scene, reported the UEJF.
Upon their refusal to yield to threats by stopping their poster campaign, she returned with a group of five people. They started attacking the three Jewish students, knocking them to the ground, shouting “Zionist fascists.” One of the victims suffered significant bruises.
The UEJF has joined the complaint filed by the victims and urgently calls for several measures: the identification and condemnation of the perpetrators; the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against the assailants and their immediate expulsion from the University; a preventive ban on the attackers from accessing the university campus to protect the victims; the dissolution of any organizations to which the attackers may belong.
“For the UEJF, the anti-Semitic nature of this assault is undeniable. It is precisely because they refused to succumb to threats merely for denouncing antisemitism that Jewish students were attacked,” wrote the Jewish student organization.
Samuel Lejoyeux, its president, explains that “this antisemitic physical assault committed in a group cannot go unpunished. It must also serve as a widespread alert: the demonization of Israel fueled by far-left groups in universities leads to anti-Semitic violence. It is urgent to stop tolerating it.”
