Union of Jewish Employers and Professionals of France

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The Union of Jewish Employers and Professionals of France (UPJF) is an association founded in 1997.

Objectives of the association
The UPJF has four missions: fighting misinformation, combating anti-Semitic violence, developing economic partnerships with Israel and doing social work. Marc Hecker notes that the association, which in 2005 has about a thousand members, has, among its main objectives, that . Paul Ariès reports that the association has with the American Jewish Committee and receives financial assistance from the American Jewish Committee.

Influence
The association receives political figures like Brice Hortefeux in 2009 then Minister of the Interior. On this occasion, the UPJF awarded him its prize in the fight against racism and anti-Semitism.

Political positions
UPJF is considered a very right-hand association.

In 2004, UPJF supported Ariel Sharon, who had called on French Jews to immigrate to Israel.

In 2012, the former UPJF president, Edward Amiach, was the candidate of the UPJF for deputation in The eighth constituency of French people established outside France, which includes Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Italy, Malta, San Marino, the Holy See and Turkey. He made his career in the big cast.

Polemic with other media
In 2011, the UPJF called for the demonstration of the first episode on Canal+ du Serment, the saga in four episodes of Peter Kosminsky, whose subject is the birth of the State of Israel. According to UPJF, this fiction

In 2009, the weekly Marianne castigates the association, which publishes a drawing representing a group of Martians on the planet Mars, demonstrating under a banner "Muslims, stay at home", a sign at their feet: "Mars for Martians!". Menahem Macina withdraws the ticket but confirms: .

UPJF provides regular chronicles to Radio J. In 2012, she expressed her after Radio J's decision to cancel Marine Le Pen's participation in a radio political program. , said Richard Portuguese, President of the UPJF. He added that this decision remitted Radio J.

Principal members
Claude Barouch : President, died of the Covid-19.
William Abbou: Vice-President
Richard Portuguese : ex-president, born in .
Edward Amiach: Former President
Nicole Guedj, Secretary of State for Justice Real Estate Programs in 2004, is no longer a member of the association.

Notes and references

External link

Jewish Association or Organization
Non-governmental organization involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict