French ministers decried graffiti at College Paris Nanterre calling for a Jewish college students’ union to be ousted from universities on Thursday, promising the motion wouldn’t go unanswered.
“UEJF (Union of Jewish College students of France) out of our universities,” learn graffiti scrawled on the road, shared in an image on X Thursday by the nationwide French union. “Zionists equals fascists.”
The union stated that the graffiti was a crude type of antisemitism and would proceed to characterize Jewish students towards anti-Jewish hatred.
“To those that dream of universities with out Jews: We won’t go away,” stated UEJF.
« UEJF hors de nos facs. Sionistes = fascistes. »Ce tag vu à Nanterre est une forme brute d’antisémitisme.À ceux qui rêvent d’universités sans Juifs : nous ne partirons pas. L’UEJF continuera de défendre les étudiants juifs et de combattre la haine, partout où elle s’exprime. pic.twitter.com/TaIIiKIfEN
— UEJF (@uejf) April 10, 2025
The graffiti was eliminated by the college inside a couple of hours, UEJF stated on Friday. The college had additionally filed a police grievance, in response to Nationwide Schooling Minister Elisabeth Borne, who on Thursday referred to as for the punishment of the perpetrators.
“Antisemitism is a criminal offense,” Borne stated on social media. “The graffiti concentrating on Jewish college students on the Nanterre College campus is insupportable.”
Increased Schooling Minister Philippe Baptiste echoed Borne, additionally decrying the graffiti as antisemitism.
The European Jewish Congress additionally issued a press release of help for UEJF, saying that Jewish college students had a proper to be on each campus.
“Equating Zionism with fascism isn’t solely false, it’s antisemitic,” the EJC stated on X.
