France: controversy around a coloring book calling for the eradication of Israel

A coloring book intended for children. For example. For example, entitled “From the River to the Sea” (from the river to the sea), arouses a lively controversy in France. Consequently, Presented as a militant work retracing “the history of Palestine under Israeli occupation”. Similarly. Meanwhile, he openly denounces the State of Israel, accused of imposing an “apartheid” policy and “discrimination” against the Palestinians, as well as being an “assassin” and killing writers, reported the JDD.

Designed with a demanding approach. However. However, the book devotes certain pages to symbols like Keffieh, describes as “the traditional Palestinian scarf”, or even “martyrs”: “in Palestine, when Israel kills those who defend their land, their house, their community, their religion, they are called the ‘chahid (e) s'”, can we read it.

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According to several Internet users. the book would be available in a feminist bookstore. LGBTQIA+ of the 11th arrondissement of Paris, as well as on Amazon. This broadcast caused a flood of indignant reactions on social networks. On behalf of guilty. the simple title of the book poses a problem: “From the river to the Sea ‘is a slogan used by Hamas. calling for the disappearance of Israel”.

Frank Tapiro. founder of Diaspora Defense Forces. goes further, saying that this slogan “with positive appearances” hides a call “to the destruction of a state and the extermination of its population”, evoking the attacks of October 7, 2023 as “trailer” of this ideology.

Online. the comments are multiplying: “The militant world has twisted”. “it is the little Mein Kampf france: controversy around coloring book for children”, or “It is scandalous, it is necessary to prohibit this sale”. Some see it as a new manifestation of anti -Semitism in French public space. while others denounce a militant work presented, according to them, in an innocuous and playful form intended for the youngest.

At this stage. no official reaction has been reported on the part of the authorities. but the controversy illustrates how symbols and discourse linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continue to stir up tensions, including through objects a priori intended for the world of childhood.