France: "I was branded a Nazi four times this week, I was told to go back to the gas chambers."

A group of Israeli students visited French university campuses last week.  i24News reports on their impressions:

On French campuses, the students said, prejudices abound. Thus, "Zionists" designates a people, a nationality, or simply a variant of the "fascist" slur. "Jewish," they discovered, stands for a religion, not a people; all Jews live on stolen land; all Jews are Israelis and all Israelis are Jews; all Israelis are soldiers and consequently have killed Palestinian children voluntarily. The students noted that on all the campuses they found that the language used to describe the Arab-Israeli conflict is the same -- a crude lexicon that seems to have been shaped by the media.

"At Tolbiac, a student gave me a menacing look after he spat on the leaflet I handed him," recalled Batsheva, a member of the delegation who hails from Tel Aviv. "But little by little, he realized he did not know everything." Batsheva said the initially unpleasant exchange ended with a photo session with the speaker and other students at Tolbiac who finally agreed to listen.

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After seven days on French campuses, the Israeli students were left with mixed impressions. "You have to ignore anti-Semitic slurs completely," said Perle, from Jerusalem. "I was branded a Nazi four times this week, I was told to go back to the gas chambers."