About Jean-Christophe Rufin
Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor, diplomat, historian and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger, one of the earliest members of Médecins Sans Frontières, and a member of the Académie française. The report, as described by the US State Department, recommended the following actions: That a law be created to punish those publicly equating Israel with apartheid or Nazi Germany. That an observation system to monitor racist and anti-Semitic websites be created and that it work closely with authorities to prosecute offenders. The "Rufin report" (as it later became known), as described by the US State Department, concluded the following: Racism and anti-Semitism were a threat to French democracy.
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