French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau moves to dissolve Urgence Palestine ahead of May Day protests in Paris.

Ahead of the May Day protests in Paris, expected to draw around 15,000 participants, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced on the CNews channel on Wednesday that he has initiated the dissolution of Urgence Palestine.

The Palestine Emergency Collective (Urgence Palestine) is a broad coalition comprising citizens, trade unions, political movements, and associations advocating for Palestinian self-determination.

Retailleau justified the move by claiming it was necessary to “hit the Islamists,” saying that Islamism is a political ideology that seeks to exploit Islam for power, representing a distortion of Islam’s true spiritual teachings.

The French state has a documented history of using group dissolution as a legal tool against Palestine advocacy.

    • Anonymaus@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Wasn’t France also about to recognise Palestine, so dissolution of this coalition seems like a step backwards

      • unautrenom@jlai.luEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Macron’s also trying to entice foreign researchers into France with grants and the benefits of our social security while simultanously breaking both apart. He’s a liberal politician, his face is on our dictionary’s entry for ‘hypocrit’.