Jean-Luc Mélenchon knew very nicely the reactions he would provoke by writing, in a weblog submit dated June 2 and dedicated to Palestine: “Opposite to what official propaganda says, anti-Semitism stays residual in France. In any case, he’s utterly absent from well-liked gatherings. » The exit was greeted by protests from sure left-wing executives, akin to Olivier Faure (PS) and Sandrine Rousseau (Ecologists).
Antisemitism will not be residual.
It explodes.— Sandrine Rousseau (@sandrousseau) June 4, 2024
Residual, anti-Semitism, actually? Definitely, Jewish populations in France are not persecuted or discriminated towards in employment or housing as they might have been within the twentieth century. Nevertheless, clichés regarding Jews and cash, Jews and energy, persist within the collective creativeness. Moreover, to say that anti-Semitic stereotypes have abandoned the demonstrations is a fantasized imaginative and prescient of “the folks”, which might be impervious to any deviation.
Particularly at a time when the federal government is counting 366 “anti-Semitic details” within the first quarter of 2024 – a rise of 300%. Figures which however need to be clarified by the Ministry of the Inside, which has by no means indicated the perimeter of a “anti-Semitic act” : if these are assaults, insults, tags or acts of one other nature.
In protection of David Guiraud
To learn the rebellious chief, the accusation of anti-Semitism is solely a technique of the “abusive stun ray » to silence help for Palestine, a trigger that has develop into central within the discourse of the rebels since October 7. It’s a proven fact that the fitting and Macronie have largely maintained the confusion between denunciation of Israeli coverage and anti-Semitism. That each one the accusations fall beneath this technique is to fall into denial.
In the identical weblog be aware, Jean-Luc Mélenchon considers, for instance, that the accusations of anti-Semitism concentrating on MP David Guiraud are “caricatural ». The elected FI from the North was criticized, in January, for having used the expression of “celestial dragons”, well-liked with the anti-Semitic far proper. Then, to have known as the pro-Israeli MP Meyer Habib a “pig”on the Nationwide Meeting, on the finish of Could, and to persist in his remarks.
Questionable outings on which Jean-Luc Mélenchon is all of the extra keen to surrender as a result of they’re a part of a technique of division, which he assumes, nonetheless on his weblog: “There are dozens of hours of anti-LFI TV. So the esteem acquired by the rebellious was via battle.” he says.
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