The French newspaper Liberation reports on this latest example of the radicalisation of young Tunisians:
On 10th March some 100 to 150 students shouting antisemitic slogans disrupted the start of a special colloquium marking the inauguration of a library donated to the Tunisian university of Manouba by the eminent Tunisian-Jewish historian and sociologist Paul Sebag, who died in 2004.
Shouting 'Down with Israel', 'Jews to the sea', 'Up Hamas','We don't want the books of a Stalinist Communist Jew', the students blocked the path of guests and scuffles broke out. The police were nowhere to be seen and the university staff linked arms to protect the guests. Among them were Sebag's daughter, the French cultural attache and the historian Claude Nataf, president of the Historical Society of Tunisian Jews.
CRIF, the body representing the Jewish community in France, has written to the Tunisian ambassador calling for the troublemakers to be punished. Fewer than 2,000 Jews still live in Tunisia.
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