A French Muslim organisation has denounced a survey that may have been requested by a powerful pro-Israel lobby group, fuelled by data from French intelligence and security authorities, and then passed on to Israel.
Drawing attention to an “unprecedented and extremely serious” affair, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) has called for a “thorough and transparent” investigation of a survey of French Muslims reportedly conducted on behalf of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF).
The organisation was speaking out after pro-Israel French consultant Didier Meir Long claimed in a video to have been investigating and working since early 2023 “on a strategy for the CRIF and various Jewish organisations in France” about Muslims in France.
Alongside Dov Maimon, a senior fellow at the Israeli think tank Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), who advises the Israeli government on its strategy toward Islam and the security of Jewish communities in Europe, Long said he had gathered information from various French security and intelligence figures.
“We met with people from the DGSI [French domestic intelligence service], analysts, former superintendents from Seine-Saint-Denis [in the Paris region], chief superintendents, people from the DRM [Directorate of Military Intelligence], as well as local politicians, security experts, intellectuals, etc.,” Long said.
