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Jewish organization calls on French Minister to ban pro-Palestinian march
Updated: 05/Oct/2007 15:42
Iranian protestors burn an effigy draped in Israeli and US flags after special Friday prayers at Tehran University 5 October 2007, to mark "Quds" (Jerusalem) Day -- Iran's annual day of mass protest marches in solidarity with the Palestinians. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a new tirade against Israel amid growing tensions with the West, vowing to work to abolish the Jewish state and questioning the scale of the Holocaust.
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PARIS (EJP)---The head of a Jewish organization has called on France’s Interior Minister to ban a planned pro-Palestinian demonstration Saturday in a Paris suburb because of the risk of violence against Jewish worshippers.

In a letter to French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie, Shimon Samuels, director for international relations of the Paris-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre, warned of the "danger of a a mass demonstration Saturday, 6 October 2007, at 2 pm, in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil under the slogan 'For the Liberation of Jerusalem and against its Judaization - Yom Al Qods’ (Jerusalem Day)."

The demonstration is organized by the party of Muslims in France as part of the 'World Jerusalem Day' initiated by Iran’s former spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Shimon Samuel, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Paris:"Among the organizers are those who clearly seek a provocation which must be stopped to ensure public order."


Samuels said: ‘This march, organized, inter alia, by extreme left
and Islamist groups - and advertised on their websites - is to pass a
synagogue on the final Sabbath of the Tabernacles Holy Days."

The Centre urged that, "due to the risk of violence to the many Jewish worshippers and to the general public, the Minister should ban this demonstration."

"Among the organizers are those who clearly seek a provocation which must be stopped to ensure public order," Samuels added.



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