(13 Nov 2024)
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Paris, France – 13 November 2024
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1. Various of left-wing party and NGO protesters with Palestinian and Lebanese flags demonstrating against scheduled visit by far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Imen Habib, spokesperson for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) France:
"We’re gathered today to show we disapprove of this gala and the fact that it wasn’t banned ahead of time. This is a gala dinner attended by far-right figures who incite racial hatred and have made genocidal comments about starving a whole population and we find it very unfortunate that there wasn’t a ban enforced ahead of time."
3. Various of demonstration in streets of Paris
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Imen Habib, spokesperson for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) France:
"FIFA and UEFA have both taken a number of measures against Russia but there’s this double standard here when it comes to Israel. It’s intolerable. We demand that sanctions be imposed against the Israeli regime of apartheid. They shouldn’t parade (their football players) while the Israeli government wages a genocidal war in the Gaza Strip. We can’t turn a blind eye on this reality."
5. Protesters holding banner
6. Wide of protesters at foot of statue representing the French Republic in Paris
7. Wide of protesters from second demonstration organised by anti-racist and Jewish groups at Arc de Triomphe
8. Various of protesters holding signs and chanting slogans
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Albert Herszkowicz, spokesperson for RAAR (Network of action against anti-semitism and racism):
"We are a network against anti-semitism and racism and we are in favor of peace and in favor of two states so we decided to protest against this minister and this gala."
10. Protesters chanting slogan (French) ‘Two states now!"
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Albert Herszkowicz, spokesperson for RAAR (Network of action against anti-semitism and racism):
"It’s very difficult, very difficult, because either you are with Israel or you are with the Palestinians. We are with Israel and with the Palestinians against any violence against civilians. We are strongly opposed against the politics of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu in Gaza and Lebanon, strongly opposed, but altogether we fight anti-semitism so it’s a bit difficult."
12. Police officers
13. President of Golem, leftist group against anti-semitism, Lorenzo Aleschi, talking to police officer
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Lorenzo Aleschi, President of Golem, leftist group against anti-semitism:
"In fact, historically, most of the Jewish community is for a two-state solution so these discourses of a big, a large Israel (Greater Israel) is quite recent and we are fighting this also in the French-Jewish community by saying that we can support Israel without denying the Palestinians the right to have a state and without supporting the mass killing of Palestinians."
15. Wide of demonstrations
STORYLINE:
Protests erupted in Paris on Wednesday against a controversial gala organized by far-right figures in support of Israel. The event, intended to raise funds for the Israeli military, included Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich among its invited guests.
"This is a gala dinner attended by far-right figures who incite racial hatred and have made genocidal comments about starving a whole population and we find it very unfortunate that there wasn’t a ban enforced ahead of time," said Imen Habib, a spokesperson for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) France.
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