http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210224-153840-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/a-witch-hunt-in-french-universities/ A Witch Hunt In French Universities Perroud, Thomas eng 2021-02-24 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 "Islamo-Leftism" Academic Freedom Frédérique Vidal Gender Legal Studies Postcolonial Studies Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 At a time when French universities are struggling to deal with the epidemic, when students’ poverty should be a prime concern for the authorities, the French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Frédérique Vidal, announced on a TV channel that she intends to set up an inquiry into “islamo-leftism” and postcolonialism in French universities. This reminds the attacks in the 1930s against the “judeo-masonic” lobby, attacks which ended up in the cleansing of universities when the Vichy Régime was established in 1940.