BREAKING: 🇫🇷🇮🇱 A large mobilization is underway in France to block the adoption of a new law that will criminalize criticisms of Israel A large mobilization is underway in France to block the adoption of the 'Yadan Law' (Bill n°575), scheduled for debate and a vote in the French National Assembly in two weeks. Authored by MP Caroline Yadan, the bill aims to combat "renewed forms of antisemitism". Legal experts, medias and human rights organizations claim it would criminalize most political criticisms of the State of Israel and create France's largest censorship law. By integrating the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of antisemitism into French law, the bill could classify comparisons between Israeli policy and the Third Reich as criminal hate speech. A new provision targeting "calls for the destruction of a state" could lead to slogans like "Free Palestine" being prosecuted as an advocacy for terrorism. An online petition already gathered 150.000 signatures against the bill.
