Union des étudiants juifs de France
{{Short description|French Jewish student organization}}
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The Union des étudiants juifs de France ("Union of French Jewish students", UEJF) is a French organization that aims to assist French Jewish students.
History
UEJF was founded in 1944 to assist young Jews who came back from concentration camps or, more generally, who had escaped the Holocaust. As of July 2011, the union had 15,000 members across France.{{Cite web |date=2011-07-06 |title=Jonathan Hayoun, président de l’Union des étudiants juifs de France |url=https://www.crif.org/fr/actualites/Jonathan-Hayoun-president-de-l-Union-des-etudiants-juifs-de-France25470 |access-date=2023-11-04 |website=Crif - Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France |language=fr}}
In March 2018, a UEJF office at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.{{Cite news |date=2018-03-28 |title=Un local de l’Union des étudiants juifs de France saccagé à l’université Paris-I |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2018/03/28/un-local-de-l-union-des-etudiants-juifs-de-france-saccage-a-l-universite-paris-i_5277676_4401467.html |access-date=2023-11-04}} In April 2019, the organization's office at Paris Dauphine University was vandalized by individuals unaffiliated with the university, who allegedly entered the premises and urinated on equipment, with the incident recorded and shared on Snapchat, according to UEJF.{{Cite web |date=2019-04-02 |title=Un local de l’Union des étudiants juifs vandalisé à l’université Paris-Dauphine |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/un-local-de-l-union-des-etudiants-juifs-vandalise-a-l-universite-paris-dauphine-02-04-2019-8045277.php |access-date=2023-11-04 |website=leparisien.fr |language=fr-FR}}
Activities
UEJF is well known in part for its participation in litigation about issues involving antisemitism, as in the case of LICRA v. Yahoo!.{{cite journal |last=Duh |first=Christine |date=2002 |title=Yahoo! Inc. v. LICRA |journal=Berkeley Technology Law Journal |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=359–378 |jstor=24120111}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.uejf.org/ Official site] {{in lang|fr}}
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Category:Jewish youth organizations
Category:Zionist organizations
Category:Religious organizations based in France
Category:Student organizations in France
Category:Student religious organizations
Category:1944 establishments in France
Category:Student organizations established in 1944
Category:Jews and Judaism in France
Category:Opposition to antisemitism in France
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