“The reality is, almost every Jewish student in France has experienced antisemitism,” the President of Union of High School Students in France told the Post.
“Dirty Jew” and “We will do another October 7” are just two examples of the antisemitic verbal abuse comments hurled at Jewish middle and high school students in France, as revealed in a compilation of testimonies published by the Union of High School Students in France (ULJF) this week.
The Union gathered multiple testimonies which laid bare the antisemitism in the French secondary system, choosing to publish ten of them on Sunday. While a lot has been said about antisemitism within French universities, less is said in the media about what school students experience. The students’ names were altered to protect them from further abuse.
In one particularly shocking testimony, a student, Adam, who attends a middle school in Paris, reported being in the changing rooms after sport when other students in his class pointed to the showers and said, “Adam, you’re going to die in there like in 1939-1945”.