Manuel Valls announced yesterday the measurements of a plan to fight against racism and anti-Semitism is on the rise in our country.
Given the rising tensions and fears within French society, Manuel Valls, yesterday presented a plan to fight against racism and anti-Semitism, with € 100 million over three years to cope with the increase in racist acts in France. “Racism, anti-Semitism, hatred of Muslims, foreigners, homophobia rise unbearably in our country,” he lamented.
Recalling that the government was “not let nothing, “he insisted that” French Jews were no longer afraid of being Jews “and that” French Muslims should no longer be ashamed to be Muslims. “
Three months after the attacks in January in Paris, the announcement of the plan also involved amid explosion of racist hatred. In the first quarter, 226 anti-Muslim acts were identified, six times more than the same period last year, according to the Observatory against Islamophobia.
But insecurity s’ also moved among French Jews, while the number of anti-Semitic incidents doubled last year compared to 2013. “In France worked by populism, our duty is to organize the start,” said Valls.
So racist words and acts fall under “more of the right of the press but of criminal law”, a measure that cringe among lawyers. The aggravating nature of racism and anti-Semitism “will also be included in the Criminal Law,” he added.
While the web is becoming more like an impunity gap Manuel Valls assured that “passivity on the internet, it’s over.” The plan provides for the establishment of a “unity of struggle against hate on the Internet” and wants to force content hosts “to have legal representation in France.”
Finally, to school, teacher training will be strengthened and “at every stage of schooling, a memory location should be visited.” The € 100 million will be used to fund such a “great communication companion,” but also shares locally, said Gilles Clavreul the interministerial delegate to the fight against racism and anti-Semitism. Some 25 million will also be spent each year to actions in the context of urban policy.
But some of these funds should come from the reallocation of existing envelopes, according to government sources.
Associations met
The president of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism, Alain Jakubowicz welcomed “coherence “measures. The president of SOS Racisme, Dominique Sopo, said to him that “the return of a state word on these subjects is obviously welcome.” The President of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, Roger Cukierman welcomed “a package deal that seems seriously a subject of extreme gravity” even though its effect “will take time, especially in the field of education “.
Michel Wieviorka, sociologist, author of” Antisemitism explained to young people “(Threshold) and” Back in the sense “(Robert La ffont)
“A necessary plan, but beware of incantations”
The plan he replies to the rise of racism and anti-Semitism in France?
It was necessary that the State confirms that the institutional side, there is no acceptance of racism and anti-Semitism. The plan therefore responds to any questions you might have on the strength of power. But is it also responds to the growing phenomenon? You could want but also raise doubts.
Why?
We are in a country where the continued rise of racism and anti-Semitism the result of logical massive, diverse and convergent. But the government’s plan, as voluntary as it is, can not take all these factors into account.
What are these?
The new Semitism and current forms of racism are at the crossroads of internal logic to our society and international considerations. Everything that happens in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa affects us. This means that a plan that would try to take everything round the body should also concern diplomacy and war. In addition, vis-à-vis internal problems to society, this plan comes at a discrediting context of the entire speech that comes from the top and the elite. Therefore these measures will they not reinforce those who think that racism and anti-Semitism are a wound, while leaving others indifferent?
The French company she carries it more racism and anti-Semitism as other European countries?
It is impossible to measure it. Because when we talk about racism and anti-Semitism, we are dealing with multifaceted phenomena (prejudices, discrimination, violence, ideologies). Now we see that in a country one of these forms can go up and another down.
The Government Are not overwhelmed by the power of the Internet?
Today is setting up a new culture of information technology and communication that involves a frantic taste for freedom of expression, an ability to communicate instantly with gigantic relays and which considers all ideas are equal. But this is wrong. There are opinions that are criminal: it is likely that the people who say they do not like the Jews will take action. This is why it is necessary -and there are government efforts to recall importants- not only historical facts, but to highlight the inhuman and barbarous. This is more positive than all the republican incantations. Because saying “Long live the Republic, long live the citizenship” to young people to whom this speech is not addressed in practice, it is against-productive because it reinforces the logic of radicalization.
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