In Solidarity with Urgence Palestine: France to Shut Down Largest Pro-Palestinian Group

Paris — Last Tuesday, the French Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, announced his intention to dissolve Urgence Palestine — France’s leading pro-Palestinian solidarity and advocacy organisation. Urgence Palestine is a political organisation founded by Palestinians in exile and their allies to combat the genocide in Gaza.

This decision comes amid increased state repression and censorship of pro-Palestinian solidarity efforts in France. The government has repeatedly resorted to a range of authoritarian measures to silence and dismantle the pro-Palestinian movement. These have included police raids, house arrests, arbitrary detentions, deportations from France, and politicised trials against activists since 7 October.

Muhammad Rabbani, Managing Director of CAGE International, said:

“By initiating the procedure to dissolve Urgence Palestine, the French government is once again demonstrating its alignment with the Zionist entity and its open support for the genocide that has been going on for 19 months.”

“CAGE International expresses its deepest solidarity with Urgence Palestine against this authoritarian measure to dissolve them.”