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France expels a student from Gaza on a scholarship accused of spreading anti-Semitic messages

Nour Attaalah, 25, called for "killing Jews everywhere," and called for "high-definition images" of the executions of Israelis abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Francia ha anunciado la expulsión este domingo de una estudiante de Gaza que había llegado con una beca pública para la facultad de Ciencias Políticas de Lille por mensajes antisemitas que había colgado en redes sociales, un caso que ha llevado a congelar la acogida de estudiantes de ese territorio palestino.
Lille School of Political Science. Photo: Google Maps

Francereported this Sunday thata student arriving from Gaza to study with a public scholarshipat the Faculty of Political Science in Lille has been expelledon charges of spreading anti-Semitic messages on his social media.

According to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement, Nour Attaalah  arrived in France on 11 July.

Thehead of French diplomacy, Jean-Noel Barrot , has stressed the "unacceptable nature"of the statements that led to the expulsion of the student. He has stressed that he made these statements before arriving in France, but that the French authorities later learned of them.

After leaping these and other messages from Palestinian students into public debate in France, Barrot acknowledged on Friday that "mistakes"had been made in the procedure for awarding and accepting public scholarships in France, and said that is temporarily suspended from the process of receiving more Palestinians until a review is carried out to prevent this happening again.

The French Government has also thanked the Qatari authoritiesfortheir "decisive cooperation" in resolving this crisis.

In account X, Attalah called for "killing Jews everywhere"and called for" high-definition images "of the executions of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas activists on 7 October 2023.

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