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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Paris suburb backtracks on ‘Nakba’ street after complaints
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe mayor of the municipality of Bezons in the northwestern Paris region, Dominique Lesparre, removes a plaque commemorating the Nakba — the Arabic “catastrophe” that Palestinians use to denote Israel’s creation.
The plaques were daubed in graffiti last night, and were removed earlier today at the request of the top central government official for the Val-d’Oise region, who said they could “seriously disrupt public order.”
The CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish associations had also demanded the plaques be taken down, saying they “encourage the current acts of anti-Semitic violence by trying to give them historic justification.”
— Agencies
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