Yana Grinshpun
The SUD éducation union defines itself as: "an inter-category union which strives to unite the demands of staff from nursery school to university, in schools, colleges, high schools, universities and all services".
Its stated aim is to fight for the improvement of school and university life, but its real actions go in another direction: the Islamization of France and the fight against Israel.
Thus, in January 2018, this union tried unsuccessfully to cancel the reading of a letter from Charb at Paris 7. This offensive against a tribute to those killed at Charlie Hebdo and to secularism failed in Paris, but succeeded at the University of Lille. Freedom did not matter, only Islamic brotherhood counted: the letter being deemed "Islamophobic", it was necessary to "gag" the students, as Riss, injured in the attack, noted.
On November 9, 2021, staff members at the University of Montpellier discovered in their mailboxes a press release from SUD Éducation aimed at interfering in a court decision concerning a foreign country, in this case Israel. Sud Éducation calls for support for organizations whose links to terrorism have been proven:
« Press release from SUD education UPV:
Designation of Palestinian Civil Society Groups as “Terrorists”: A Brazen Attack on Human RightsOn October 19, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense issued a military decree designating six Palestinian civil society organizations operating in the occupied Palestinian territory as “terrorists.” The six organizations are Addameer, al-Haq, Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense for Children Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees (UPWC). The designation, made under a 2016 Israeli law, effectively bans the activities of these organizations and authorizes Israeli authorities to close their offices, seize their assets, and arrest and imprison their staff members. It is also prohibited to fund or even publicly express support for their activities.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, working closely with several of these organizations, issued the following joint statement: :
"This deplorable and unjust decision constitutes an attack by the Israeli government against the movement international Human Rights Commission. For decades, Israeli authorities have systematically sought to silence human rights monitoring and punish those who criticize its repressive regime against Palestinians. Staff members from both our organizations have themselves been subject to expulsions and travel bans, but it is Palestinian human rights defenders who have consistently borne the brunt of the repression. This decision is an alarming escalation that threatens to bring to an end the work of leading Palestinian civil society organizations. The failure of the international community over decades to challenge Israel’s serious human rights violations, and to impose meaningful consequences, has emboldened the country’s authorities to take this brazen step.
The international community’s response will be a real test of its resolve to protect human rights defenders. We are proud to have worked with our Palestinian partners for decades. They embody the highest standards of global civil society. We stand with them to challenge this outrageous decision.. »
What about these groups? accused?
Israel has indeed demonstrated that charities hide terrorist organizations.
The six organizations incriminated by Israel are so because of their links with the POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE
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The PFLP is officially considered a terrorist organization by the Council of the European Union. [1]
Founded by George Habash in 1967, the PFLP embodies an even more radical line than Fatah within the PLO. The founder is the author of numerous attacks in Israel and around the world, from the hijackings of planes in the 1970s to the present day. The press release from Israel's Internal Security services dismantled the mechanism: these NGOs diverted humanitarian funds from European donors to the PFLP and recruited members into the terrorist group. Similarly, sworn testimony attests that these NGOs provided "vital" funding to the PFLP, that they employed PFLP terrorists, and that PFLP terrorists used the offices of the NGOs to hold their meetings.
What type of NGO does Sud Éducation defend?
Al-Haq, which presents itself as a “human rights” NGO, is in reality one of the main actors in the legal war against Israel – and in the BDS boycott campaign, just like SUD éducation in France. Its established links with the PFLP justified the refusal of entry visas to Israel and Jordan to its general director, Shawan Jabarin.
The same goes for the deputy director of the NGO's board of directors. Addameer, based in Ramallah, who is a senior PFLP official.
The same goes for Ubai Aboudi, executive director of Bisan, who was arrested by Israeli authorities on November 13, 2019. In June 2020, he was sentenced to 12 months in prison “for being a member and activist of the Popular Front organization during the period from 2016 to July 2019.”
Founded in 1980, the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees, UPWC, supports "the boycott of the occupation in all its forms, including economic, cultural, academic and any other form of boycott" and rejects any normalization with Israel as "treason." UPWC is identified by Fatah as an "affiliate" of the PFLP and by a USAID-initiated audit as "the women's organization of the PFLP." [2]
According to Fatah's website, the UAWC (Union of Agricultural Works Committee) is an "affiliate" of the PFLP. A USAID audit calls it the "agricultural arm" of the PFLP. [3]
As for Defense for Children International (DCI), its leader was openly recognized as a member of the PFLP:
“The Front praised the comrade as a leader, noting that he joined the ranks of the national liberation struggle and the PFLP from a young age, that he was arrested several times, and that he represented a model of a steadfast fighter and defender of the rights of our people through his work in Defense for Children International. … His last message on his Facebook page before his assassination: “Tolerance, normalization… lead to defeat, while solidarity, cooperation, mutual support among the Palestinian people, the promotion of a culture of unity and resistance, a sense of belonging and identity… raise the youth and strengthen the Intifada.”
And South Education?
The Sud Education press release is careful not to mention these facts. This is not due to ignorance. It is therefore either because its adherence to the PFLP ideology pushes it to promote its "values" on French soil, or because it has a more ambitious objective.
Not only is defending its citizens a right of every state, it is even an obligation. This is what disturbs Sud Éducation so deeply: Israel defends itself against organizations dedicated to its destruction and working on its own soil. For critics of Israel, this represents a scandal and a violation of human rights.
Mohammed Merah subscribed to this right: "I kill Jews in France, because these same Jews (...) kill innocent people in Palestine." SUD Éducation advocates the ideology of the PIR, whose spokesperson, Houria Bouteldja, declared in a burst of murderous identification "Mohammed Merah is me." The PIR, Sud Éducation, same fight and same defense of groups linked to terrorism against Israel.
Support for Muslim Brotherhood entryism through the Palestinian cause
The PFLP is an Islamist movement disguised as nationalist. The liquidation of the Palestinian camp Yarmouk in Syria is its work. In Lebanon, it acts on behalf of Hezbollah. But it is not only Palestinian-centric. It has become the mercenary of Iran, whose program is modeled on that developed by Said Qutb, founder of the violent revolutionary branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The decolonial theses promoted in France and to which Sud Education adheres, are included in the program of the OIC, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, "the second largest organization after the United Nations with 57 member states in 4 continents. The OIC is the voice of the Muslim world whose interests it ensures the safeguarding and protection "in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony between the different peoples of the world" but by calling for "making declarations against anything that offends Islam and the belief, symbols and sanctuaries of Muslims."[4]
In the meantime, Sud Éducation, whose path strangely resembles that of the PFLP, is taking advantage of French pusillanimity and its hypersensitivity to the accusation of Islamophobia to launch destabilization campaigns on this theme.
If it continues to follow the example of its big brother PFLP, a next step in Sud Éducation's journey should lead it to promote forms of soft (unarmed) terrorism by disintegrating the academic world. The slogans of the fight against Islamophobia and the defense of groups linked to terrorism are the first symptoms and the most eloquent proof of this.
