Anti-Semitic Student Becomes First Expelled from French University since 1872

A student who posted rabidly anti-Semitic remarks on facebook became the first to be expelled from the prestigious Science Po institute in Paris since the institution was founded in 1872, the UK’s Jewish Chronicle reported on Friday.

During an online debate with an Israeli student, Amira Jumaa, 20, wrote: “You don’t belong anywhere in this world–that’s why you guys are scum and rats and discriminated against wherever you are. Do not blame it on the poor Palestinians.”

In response to being accused of racism, Jumaa, a Kuwaiti, called the Israeli student a “dispersed rat,” and added, “I am not an immigrant from France. I am from Kuwait so my country can buy you and your parents and put you in ovens.”

After an anti-Semitism watchdog blog called TheInglouriousBasterds first published her comments in October, Jumaa was suspended from Science Po, officially known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies. She was also fired from an internship at the French embassy in New York.

A disciplinary committee of professors and students at Science Po decided on Jumaa’s expulsion in December but it was not widely publicized at the university. The announcement was only made via a notice posted on a university bulletin board, according to the French newspaper Nouvel Observateur which discovered the notice and published the story this week.

Full story here.
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Story in the Jewish Chronicle here.
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