On a Paris university campus, a WhatsApp poll on the first year’s economics students’ class simply asked: “Juifs: pour ou contre” in translation, “Jews: For or Against?” – a chilling sign of how antisemitism has quietly become routine for French students. no longer just a digital quirk but a structural failure of our academic institutions. That single, unvarnished question captures the dread and exhaustion felt by those who have spent the past three years fighting simply to be recognized as equal humans. In a place where their faith alone is enough for others to deny them basic dignity, this is the daily reality for Jewish students at French universities today.

When asked, the University stated it’s “full support for students who had been victims of antisemitic acts as they “condemned in the strongest possible terms” these “unacceptable abuses”. In need of an immediate response, I, alongside fellow members of the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF), chose to plaster “Tracking down Jewish names and removing them, doesn’t that remind you of something?” on hundreds of posters across campus walls. The Sénat’s 2024 information report on antisemitism in higher education starkly warns that we are witnessing the rise of an “antisemitism of atmosphere,” a climate where Jewish students are systematically ostracized and assimilated into........

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