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Israel propaganda festival canceled at French university
Activists are celebrating a victory for Palestinian rights after a festival to promote Israel was canceled at the University of Lille in northern France last week.
Meanwhile, the French government is continuing its complicity with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which it claims to oppose.
Activists showed up carrying Palestinian flags and posters calling for the release of Ahed Tamimi, the teenager being subjected to a show trial by Israeli military authorities for slapping and shoving heavily armed occupation soldiers after one of them had shot her cousin in the head.
Others carried posters supporting Salah Hamouri, the Palestinian-French human rights defender who has been imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial since August.
Realizing they were facing determined opposition from human rights defenders, the festival organizers decided to call it quits.
Israel propaganda festival canceled at French university
Activists are celebrating a victory for Palestinian rights after a festival to promote Israel was canceled at the University of Lille in northern France last week.
Meanwhile, the French government is continuing its complicity with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which it claims to oppose.
Activists showed up carrying Palestinian flags and posters calling for the release of Ahed Tamimi, the teenager being subjected to a show trial by Israeli military authorities for slapping and shoving heavily armed occupation soldiers after one of them had shot her cousin in the head.
Others carried posters supporting Salah Hamouri, the Palestinian-French human rights defender who has been imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial since August.
Realizing they were facing determined opposition from human rights defenders, the festival organizers decided to call it quits.
Israel propaganda festival canceled at French university