See online: The UJFP is the target of new media attacks https://ujfp.org/ ---- The newspaper L'Humanité has just published an opinion piece signed by numerous prominent figures and organizations. As new signatures have been added since then, the version below has been updated and will be updated as new signatures are received. ---- The UJFP has taken note of an article in the newspaper Le Point on February 10th that seriously implicates the organization, spreading inaccurate information in an attempt to undermine its work with the Palestinian people, based on suspicions of terrorism.
For two and a half years, a genocide of incredible proportions has been unfolding in Gaza.
Even the Israeli army has acknowledged that the figures provided by the Gaza authorities are accurate, even though they only concern direct deaths, leaving the dramatic consequences of the destruction of vital infrastructure on a population that is 47% children unknown.
History will remember that citizens around the world rose up against a supremacist regime whose leaders declared that "there are no innocent people in Gaza" and who deliberately exterminated tens of thousands of civilians. It will also remember that supposedly anti-racist organizations attempted, as early as October 7, 2023, to criminalize the solidarity movement for the rights of the Palestinian people. These organizations don't even bother to deny the crimes against humanity that have been committed, let alone celebrate them, and do so with complete impunity.
History will also remember that the genocide would have been impossible without political, economic, military, and media complicity in France and Europe. Those who attack the UJFP would like to add a form of judicial complicity to this.
It is alleged that the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) has opened a preliminary investigation against the UJFP for "financing terrorism" following a complaint filed on July 21, 2025, by the association CHAR (Against Hate, Anti-Semitism, and Racism). However, the UJFP is unaware of any such proceedings initiated against it and contests this serious conflation of aid provided to Palestinian civilians with support for terrorism.
This article alleges that Pierre Stambul sheltered Mariam Abou Daqqa, a member of the "PFLP terrorist organization." It should be noted, however, that Mariam Abou Daqqa did indeed obtain her visa for a speaking tour in France on the situation in Gaza and was scheduled to address the National Assembly.
The article in Le Point recounts, in its characteristically biased manner, the conference given by Sarah Katz and Pierre Stambul at the Biocybèle fair in Graulhet-the very same conference that the far-right in Graulhet unsuccessfully attempted to have banned. These accusations against the UJFP (Union of Jewish Students of France), and particularly against Pierre Stambul and Sarah Katz, are a way to discourage donors, criticize the actions undertaken to support the Palestinian people, and criminalize support for the Palestinian people on the basis of alleged support for terrorism. This aligns with Israeli policy, which now prohibits NGOs from going to Gaza, based on the same grounds of suspected terrorism. Yet today it is the Palestinian population that is terrorized, with the solidarity movement working to mitigate the effects as much as possible.
The speakers are criticized for mentioning that their parents were members of the Resistance. Indeed, at that time, being Jewish and far-right was an oxymoron. The UJFP is proud of this humanist and committed heritage of European Judaism.
The article criticizes Pierre Stambul for stating that the UJFP sent thousands of euros to Gaza in support of Palestinian civil society. Every day, the UJFP website gives a voice (with supporting photos and videos) to its representatives in Gaza. Those who attack the UJFP prefer to defend a regime that is orchestrating famine in Gaza. To each their own. For its part, the UJFP is proud to have supported families devastated by the blockade, and to have championed humanism and solidarity between peoples.
The article claims that the UJFP has ties to Hamas, which is utterly false and outrageous, and aims solely to criminalize a French association active in providing aid to the Palestinian people. The newspaper Le Point could simply consult the UJFP website to objectively inform its readers based on genuine journalistic work. For example, the UJFP does not have a "headquarters" in Gaza, but it did have a farmers' center, where they were trying to rehumanize an occupied and devastated territory-a center that was unfortunately destroyed by the Israeli army.
The article claims that the UJFP representative, "Abu Amir Eleiwa[is]a leader of Humani'Terre, an organization itself under investigation for financing terrorism... This is defamation. All of Abu Amir's articles (and there are hundreds) clearly state his actions and his ideas.
After funding a water tower, pipelines, and a farmers' center, the UJFP partnered with Humani'Terre to build a community nursery used by thousands of farmers. Any action in Palestine, funded by those in solidarity, requires the donors' logo to be displayed. Even today, the actions carried out by Abu Amir and reported daily by his team display the UJFP logo.
The UJFP is not the only organization under attack. The article concludes with an indictment of the association "Nature et Progrès," which invited the UJFP (Union of Jewish Professionals of Palestine) to a conference entitled "Farming Under the Bombs." The UJFP, however, welcomes this human connection between farmers in Europe and farmers in Gaza, which is entirely consistent with its Jewish values and its fight against antisemitism.
Like the Israeli government, which systematically accuses humanitarian NGOs and threatens to ban 37 of these NGOs in Palestine, accusing them of terrorism, the newspaper Le Point plays the same tune by discrediting the UJFP's work through the use of serious conflations.
The defamatory accusations made in this article are clearly aimed at preventing essential humanitarian aid from reaching Gazan society. This tactic is despicable, and it will not succeed.
These accusations are now accompanied by a demand for the dissolution of the UJFP, a Jewish association, from organizations that support Israeli policy.
The signatories, whether or not they are members of the UJFP, are resolutely opposed to the legal proceedings (or alleged legal proceedings) and the smear campaign targeting it.
P.S.
Signatures:
http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4633
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Link: (en) France, OCL: Despite the attacks against the UJFP, solidarity with Gaza will continue through Saint-Nazaire. (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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