PARIS, October 16 (IslamOnline.net) - The French Union of Jewish Students has threatened to suing Egyptian-born Swiss Muslim thinker Tariq Ramadan on alleged charges of anti-Semitism.

In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline.net on Wednesday, October 15, the union said it was mulling legal action against Ramadan, a professor of Islamic studies in University of Fribourg, for posting an article on a website of the European Social Forum allegedly classifying French intellectuals on the basis of their religious affiliations.

Ramadan, grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan El-Banna, has posted an article, in French, criticizing several French intellectuals who claim to advocate global values such as justice, equality and freedom while in fact support the aggressive practices of the Israeli government against the Palestinian people as well as the American invasion of Iraq.

Ramadan, a prominent Da’wah leader and speaker on Islam, has pressed in his article for refraining from any discourse that does not take into consideration the value of justice as a basis for dealing with all peoples.

The union statement comes a week after a campaign launched by several French newspapers, magazines and writers against the Islamic thinker, all labeling him an anti-Semitic.

In its October 9-16 issue, the weekly Le Nouvelle Observateur argued that Ramadan has posted a strange article full of anti-Jewish statements and based on the conspiracy theory.

It added that he deliberately mentioned French intellectuals, emphasizing their religious affiliations as Jews and accusing them of supporting the government of Ariel Sharon and the war on Iraq.

In the same context, Bernard-Henri Lévy, a renowned columnist in Le Point magazine, wrote an article describing Ramadan as an intellectual who graduated from the school of the Muslim Brotherhood.

He argued that in his public speeches Ramadan gives the impression of being flexible and convincing while in fact he is not.

Commenting on the charges leveled against him, Tariq told Le Monde newspaper on October 11 that he never stopped battling anti-Semitic attitudes within the Muslim minority.

On calls by Jewish writers to boycott the Islamic thinker, leader of the French anti-globalization movement Jose Bové said it grouped figures from various religious and ethnic backgrounds and that Muslims are part and parcel of this fabric and can not be excluded.

It is not the first time that the prominent Islamic activist was targeted by some French newspapers that previously attempt to link him with Al-Qaeda.