The Jewish Chronicle

Intern: we can put you in the oven

- BY NAOMI FIRSHT

A PRESTIGIOU­S French university, Sciences Po, has expelled a student for making antisemiti­c remarks on social media.

Kuwaiti Amira Jumaa, 20, told an Israeli in a debate on Facebook: “You don’t belong anywhere in this world — that’s why you guys are scum and rats and discrimina­ted against wherever you are. Do not blame it on the poor Palestinia­ns.”

In response to being accused of rac- ism, Ms Jumaa wrote: “First of all you dispersed rat, I am not an immigrant from France. I am from Kuwait so my country can buy you and your parents and put you in ovens.”

Ms Jumaa was also fired from an internship at the French embassy in New York, which she was completing when her remarks came to light.

The comments were published by a website called TheInglour­iousBaster­ds, which seeks to expose online antisemiti­sm. Ms Jumaa is the first student to be expelled from Sciences Po since it was founded in 1872.

 ??  ?? ‘You guys don’t belong anywhere. You are rats’ — Jumaa
‘You guys don’t belong anywhere. You are rats’ — Jumaa

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