Toulouse: showdown between the Capitol and the Palestine Vaincra collective
An openly ideological conflict opposes the town hall of Toulouse and the Palestine Vaincra collective, created in 2019, which calls for the boycott of Israeli products.
The ideological standoff is still relevant between the Capitol and the “Palestine Vaincra” collective, created in 2019 in Toulouse, and which claims to be an “anti-colonialist” association defending the cause of the Palestinians in Israel.
Recently, on the online television channel i24news, in a program called “Les Grandes Gueules Moyen-Orient”, the journalist questioned the deputy mayor of Toulouse, district mayor and vice-president of Toulouse Métropole Maxime Boyer on the affair of the stickers placed by the members of the collective in the Auchan store, then at the University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès.
“Acts” claimed by the collective “in the name of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance and the boycott of Israel”.
“Our position is clear”
For the elected metropolitan, the “position of the town hall is clear, unambiguous or ambiguous” vis-à-vis the collective. “We condemn this collective and the multiple actions they have been carrying out for several months throughout the city, in the public domain, but also at the university”.
And the deputy mayor recalled the trauma of the attacks committed by Merah in 2012: “In Toulouse, we are marked in our flesh, in our heart by this story that will follow us and build the Toulouse identity”.
Spokesman for the Palestine Vaincra collective, Tom Martin denies acting for a good cause. “Our activities,” he says, “are registered with the prefecture, we never had any problems. M. Moudenc’s policy [maire de Toulouse] and his majority is openly pro-iselian, at least they declare which camp they are on. “
It must be said that the matter is getting worse. At the microphone, Maxime Boyer affirmed to have seized the public prosecutor, in connection with the Crif Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (representative council of the Jewish institutions of France), so that “legal consequences” are given concerning in particular the call for boycott consumer goods of the Jewish faith in several stores in the city.
Finally, the elected representative does not demand the “dissolution” of the collective in question, but “calls for the dissolution of all the structures which contravene the republican pact. The peculiarity is that this structure [le collectif Palestine Vaincra, NDLR] is not very clear to us. We have difficulty in identifying the legal identity which accompanies it… ”