Town of Saint-Etienne introduced a serious change in its worldwide cooperation coverage, by deciding to determine a twinning with a neighborhood Palestinianchanging that established with the municipality Israeli de Nof HaGalil.
In a press launch, the municipality led by Régis Juanico signifies that it needs to “place its cooperation motion below the aegis of worldwide regulation and human solidarity”, evoking “a brand new sturdy act of worldwide cooperation with a Palestinian neighborhood”. She additionally expresses “her deepest concern” about “the tragedy which is putting the Palestinian folks and the genocide nonetheless ongoing in Gaza », presenting herself as a “resolute actor of peace and respect for elementary rights”.
The municipality “feeds the fractures”, says Crif
The twinning with Nof HaGalil, signed in 1974 below the mandate of Michel Durafour, is now thought-about inactive, with the Metropolis establishing “the commentary of a de facto suspension of cooperation operations”. This Israeli commune, which has almost 50,000 inhabitants, was based within the Nineteen Fifties on land belonging to the Arab metropolis of Nazareth, as a part of a venture by David Ben-Gurion aimed toward “Judeizing the Galilee”.
This choice provokes reactions. THE Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif) in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes believes that “by breaking with a democratic Israeli metropolis, the municipality led by Régis Juanico serves neither peace nor justice: it fuels fractures” and “calls elected officers to accountability”.
This announcement comes on the eve of an occasion organized by Rebellious France to “demand detwinning” with Nof HaGalil, adopted by a brand new rally deliberate for Monday through the municipal council, below the slogan “Saint-Etienne should not assist Israeli apartheid”.
