Criminalising protest: Pro-Palestine students in France face increased repression

Criminalising protest: Pro-Palestine students in France face increased repression Submitted by Tassa Adidi on Wed, 05/13/2026 - 07:24 Activists are raising the alarm over a growing trend of criminalising support for Palestine on French university campuses French police take position near pro-Palestine protesters demonstrating near the entrance of Sciences Po Paris occupied by students, in Paris, on 26 April 2024 (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP) Off Kylian, 22, studies law at the Sorbonne University in Paris. After the start of the Israeli massacres in Gaza following the Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023, he joined student demonstrations to demand an end to the bombings and to defend Palestinian rights. Raised in an Algerian family that settled in France in the early 1990s, Kylian was immersed from a young age in a climate of pro-Palestinian activism and support for the right of peoples to self-determination.