A delegation of French Jewish leaders raised the question of Tunisia's Jewish heritage in a meeting with France's Tunisian ambassador, Raouf Najar on 16 July, Actualite juive reports.
Jean-Pierre Allali, French coordinator of the Justice for Jews from Arab Countries international campaign, mentioned the state of the Jewish cemetery at Gammarth. Meyer Habib asked if it was possible to access the precious archives of Tunisian synagogues. The ambassador replied that these documents could be photocopied or put on microfilm.
Allali and Habib, who went to see the ambassador with the president of the French-Jewish representative body CRIF, Richard Prasquier, praised the ambassador for his stance on antisemitism. In response to Prasquier's suggestion that books on the Holocaust in Arabic should be more widely made available in Tunisia, Mr Najar said he was ready to encourage any such private initiatives. He pointed out that there was no trace of antisemitism or revisionism in Tunisian schoolbooks.
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