At Paris 1 University, students were deliberately excluded from their WhatsApp groups because they had “a Jewish last name,” reports the Union of Jewish Students of France. CRIF President Yonathan Arfi denounced “an anti-Semitic intimidation campaign.” This worrying trend, hidden behind a veneer of activism, marks a new stage in the normalization of anti-Semitism in higher education.
The UEJF recalls that on August 24, 2025, a survey had already been “published on the WhatsApp group of L1 economics at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The question asked was simple, brutal, unacceptable:
“Jews: for or against?”
On September 15, 2025, Jewish students from the same year were banned from their university WhatsApp group because of their last names, followed by a message: “If any more Zionists like the ones I’ve already removed are present, you can leave. We don’t want you here.”
The president of the CRIF strongly denounces this campaign of anti-Semitic intimidation:
These events are part of a series of alarming signals about the trivialization of anti-Semitism in higher education.
