US EditionFive Researchers Refuse to Participate in a Colloquium on the History of the Jews of France, an Unprecedented Boycott
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The researchers based in France cancelled their participation in the demonstration held on 15 September because of the flight tickets of a PhD student supported by a research program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Museum of Art and History of Judaism deplores an "unprecedented boycott" of its symposium on the history of the Jews of France, motivated by arguments related to the war in Gaza Several
According to the Museum of Art and History of Judaism, located in Paris, the researchers questioned the participation in the event of a PhD student funded by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and more generally the war in Gaza.
Several researchers have cancelled their arrival at a symposium organized by the Museum of Art and History of Judaism (MahJ). It is scheduled to be held on 15 and 16 September 2025 in Paris.
According to the organiser, the Museum of Art and History of Judaism (Mahj), these researchers claimed, among other things, that "their participation was equivalent to supporting the Israeli government".
A press release from the Museum of Art and History of Judaism (mahJ), published on Wednesday, September 10, confirmed that five French researchers had decided to boycott the scientific symposium "Les histoires juifs de Paris", prepared since 2024 and originally bringing together twenty-five French and Israeli speakers. This withdrawal is a first for the mahJ since its creation in 1998. To justify these withdrawals, some have "just referred to th…
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