Unsuccessful French ban on anti-Islamophobia protests

A nationwide protest against Islamophobia was initially banned by the French government, but thousands turned out in Paris despite the risk of facing judicial intimidation.

Dozens of organizations marched in Paris against Islamophobia and racism, as Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing have increased state-sponsored repression against Europe's largest Muslim community.

A major theme of the march was protecting children. Since October 7th, 2003, children as young as 10 years old had been charged with so-called 'apology for terrorism', while a child of eight was falsely targeted for praying during recess.

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  French ban on anti-Islamophobia protest fails amid mounting state repression

  Paris becomes the scene of anti-Islamophobia demonstrations amid mounting repression against the Muslim community.

Such scandals have many saying that non-white children are no longer being treated like children but as suspected fanatics, delinquents and full-grown adults.

We Muslims are enduring so much Islamophobia these days, and it's not like there wasn't a lot of Islamophobia in France already.

 The targeting of our children is a step too far and it's incredible that they have taken this shameful step.

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  French support for Israel falls after 6 months of genocide

  Although France had become an ardently pro-Zionist country, recent opinion polls show that a nation evenly split on support for Palestine isn

As France is accused of targeting Muslim children at home, the French elite are giving military and political cover to Israel's mass murder in Gaza of an estimated 15,000 children and the orphaning of some 20,000 others.

It's totally unjust how we are watching murder, torture and the bombing of embassies and nobody is allowed to say anything.

We're here to say stop the violence against Palestinian and Iranian people.

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• Huge fines for French pro-Palestinian protestors as permit revoked
  

  Massive fines for pro-Palestinian protesters in Paris as permit revoked

  The sudden revocation of the permit for a pro-Palestine protest march gave the French police legal justification to use a tool of political repression not seen since the yellow vests, massive fines.

A decade ago, during another Israeli invasion of Gaza, France became the first country to ever ban pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

They banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations for a whole month after the October 7th counterattack on Hamas, handing out hundreds of thousands of Euros in fines and making mass arrests.

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  France criminalizes any public expression of support for Palestinian resistance

  France’s minister of justice has stated that any form of public support for resistance against the Israeli regime is a criminal offense.

Police initially banned this March, claiming it was a threat to public order and possibly anti-Semitic, however, it was overturned at the last moment.

 Many contend that the effort is proof of a long-running double standard against non-whites and non-Jews.

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  President Macron: 'Israel's actions have no legitimacy'

  After five weeks of shocking war crimes committed against Palestinians by Israel, official Western pressure is finally mounting on Tel Aviv, with the French President declaring that Israel

Anytime there is a march about Palestine or Islamophobia, the interior minister, in whatever administration, seeks to ban it. The idea that we are anti-Semitic is total nonsense. I get the feeling that I'm more French than many others who aren't of Algerian descent as I am, because many have totally abandoned the longtime values of French political culture.

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As was the case following the two-year state of emergency France declared in November 2015, many have been shocked by the lack of outcry at this latest targeting of the Muslim community, despite perpetual bragging of being the alleged birthplace of human rights.

• Despite being banned Pro Palestine protests took place in Paris
  

  Despite being banned Pro Palestine protests took place in Paris

  Demonstrators gathered in Paris to demand that Palestinians be given their human rights and that Western governments end their complicity with Israel.

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