A watchdog on anti-Semitism vowed legal action against a French municipality that named a street after Palestinian Authority terrorist Marwan Barghouti, serving five sentences of life in prison for involvement in attacks that killed dozens of Israelis.
The National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, on Wednesday prepared to ask an administrative court to void the move by Valenton, near Paris, BNVCA founder Sammy Ghozlan told JTA. BNVCA also will complain to police of incitement to commit a crime, he added.
“This celebration of a murderer is unacceptable,” Ghozlan said of the dedication in Venton last month of a street honoring Barghouti, who was sentenced by an Israeli court in 2004 to multiple life sentences for planning dozens of deadly terrorist attacks.
During the Sept. 15 inauguration of Marwan Barghouti Alley, Valenton Mayor Françoise Baud called Barghouti “the face of the unwavering resistance of the Palestinian people against the occupation, the crimes, the destruction, the apartheid and the colonization perpetrated by the Israeli government.”
During the same ceremony, Baud, a member of the French Communist Party, also inaugurated a square honoring Nelson Mandela, a former president of South Africa and an anti-apartheid activist.
“Referring to both men in the same breath is no distinction for Barghouti but a diminution of Mandela’s personality,” Shimon Samuels, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s director for international relations, told JTA.
Ghozlan added that in light of the increase in anti-Semitic violence in France over Israel’s actions, “this is a signal that encourages more attacks on Jews.”
Barghouti was made an honorary citizen of Valenton five years ago. The municipality intends to sign a twinning agreement with the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank, Baud said in her speech.
doing your best to whip up hysteria. do you expect 600,000 french jews to leave because you are shocked they are staying?
The French are the WALMART of the world.
me gustas tu !
The world has gone mad
So I guess, Richard Fox, you think naming a street after a Terrorist is wonderful and reporting it is whipping up hysteria. You have strange values.
Wishing France and the rest of Europe a terror mosque on every street corner. You karma is coming Europe.
They do not learn from their own history. Shame on them and a pox on their house.
Nice I supported this
Jews should live in every country in the world including Arab states
There’s a stupid obsession that people think Jews need to live in the holyland. Then they whine about jews who were chased out Arab countries
You know 2,ooo years,nice climate,cuisine…..
In Europe are millions of Jews, descendants of Jews, crypto-Jews and Jewish Christian converts.
Chill out.
the french has to go to live in Ghaza o Ramallah instead of bringing more muslims in France
These days you can count on anything with the word 'peace' in its name to be a terror supporting entity…
Don't know if it's still true today, but decades ago, you could not find the last name of "Sherman" in the deep South. (Think about it if you are wondering why.)
Sherman is like Cancer. A name you want to avoid. I won;t even live in a county called Sherman or Lincoln for that matter. Both of whom were traitors.
Les Francais me font honte ! Leur stupidity me fait peur ! He vis aux USA…Pas bien mieux ici avec in president musulman … G-d is on Israel side …Shalom
And who are these terrorists israeli that ate prime minister ? Did they cut heads or rape your women ? Go back to school ignorance is not an excuse ….
I guess that some Southerners were upset that General Sherman, one of the greatest Union generals of the American Civil War, thorough This Yankee is sure glad that he did. But I don't really see what your comment has to do with the article under which it is written.
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