Elie Semoun at the Deauville Festival, September 2, 2016.
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Anti-Semitism
After describing the pro-Palestine students participating in the blockade of Sciences-Po as “uneducated morons”, Elie Semoun allegedly received “very serious threats”.
Six months after the attacks of October 7 in Israel and in a context of resurgence of anti-Semitism, Elie Semoun announced this Sunday, May 5 in the columns of Le Parisien, that he had filed a complaint after receiving “very serious threats“.
“I called Sciences-po students ‘uneducated morons’ in a tweet“, explains the director of Ducobu 5 in reference to the pro-Palestinian students who have organized blockades of the Sciences Po Paris campus in recent weeks.
“Maybe I shouldn’t have… Those probably weren’t the right words.“, regrets the comedian, who says to himself”so angry and helpless in the face of this anti-Semitic wave, in the face of all this ignorance“.
“Immediately after my post, I received death threats, a flood of hatred and insults calling me in particular – since this is the rule today – a dirty Zionist“, explains the actor.
“Traumatized” And “shocked“by the attacks of October 7 and”everything that happened next“, Elie Semoun denounces a “uninhibited, generalized anti-Semitism.” “I am certain that times are going to be hard for the Jews“, fears Elie Semoun.
“Anti-Semitism returns, and the worst is that it was the pogrom of October 7 that opened the floodgates, at a time when we could expect the world to close ranks around the Jews, to share our pain . I expected a lasting wave of empathy, and then no“, he still laments.
“It’s unbearable to see these howling packs get agitated only when it concerns Israel and the Jews. Strange, this obsession..“, he said. “I who naively thought that this unbridled hatred was relegated to history in the Second World War chapter. The respite is over.“
Despite the threats against him, Elie Semoun feels “safe” while being “hypervigilant“.”(I am) probably much too caught up in social networks since October 7“, he admits. “I only see that, I only talk about that. It became obsessive. My partner also told me to pick up…”
