PARIS, November 8, 2024 (WAFA) – Supporters of Palestine in France Thursday rallied against a gala that would feature Israeli Jewish supremacist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, according to Anadolu Agency (AA).

It said that participants in the rally gathered at Trocadero Square near the Eiffel Tower in the capital, demanding that French authorities cancel the gala organized by the Israel Forever Foundation and scheduled on November 13 in Paris.

The organizers of the gala have as their objective the “mobilization of francophone Zionist forces in the service of the power and history of Israel.”

It added that the demonstrators chanted slogans including "No gala in Paris for Smotrich and his associates" and "Long live Palestinian resistance" in protest of the event.

The protest featured Palestinian and Lebanese flags along with banners that read "The West is responsible for the genocide in Gaza" and "Murderer Smotrich."

Among the participants were French politicians, anti-Zionist Jewish civil society groups and rabbis.

Last month, Thomas Portes, a lawmaker from the opposition France Unbowed party, submitted an official request to the Paris Police Department to cancel Smotrich's participation in the gala.

On Nov. 4, six organizations, including the French Human Rights League, issued a joint statement calling for the event to be canceled.

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