Invited Monday in France 5 after being targeted by left and far left activists for his reading deemed “Zionist” from the conflict to the Middle East, the PS deputy attacked those who, like the rebellious, “play with fire”.
He was, last week, at the center of media attention. Violently taken to task at the cry of “Zionist gives off!” During the Parisian rally in tribute to the murder of a young Malian in a mosque, then the 1is May, where he was targeted and insulted by demonstrators on the left or extreme left, the socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj, of Jewish confession, responds to his detractors who accuse him of having a pro-Israeli reading of the conflict to the Middle East. As well as those who, in his own camp, “Play with fire” and feed a climate he judges “Anti -Semitic” against him. “Behind” dirty Zionist “, I obviously hear something else, I see” dirty Jew “”, Did he argue on Monday evening on France 5, evoking Вана Metristissure » who hurts his convictions “universalists».
Above all, the elected official of Essonne considers that his political family “Locked lucidity” On the scourge of anti -Semitism, the acts of which have been up to the resurgence since Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023. “Myself, I have sometimes been in denial, I would never have thought that the Jewish question would come back from the left”, He was lameted in reference to the polemical statements of the rebellious and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, accused of instrumentalizing as soon as they have the opportunity the war between the Hebrew State and Hamas for electoral purposes. While stretching community tensions in France. “After October 7, there was deliberately this idea of organizing this confrontation by essentializing the positions of each other”, he attacked.
No political party “spared” by anti -Semitism
The Ile -de -France deputy took advantage of his visit to the antenna to denounce once again “Angelism and denial” Within the left vis-à-vis the anti-Jewish thrust. “There is an anti -Semitism that crosses all the strata of society, there is not a party that can be spared (…) We cannot be in the” it does not concern me, we are purity “he cracked, clearly targeting the movement led by Manuel Bompard. Unwittingly, Jérôme Guedj takes up almost word for word the declaration of the first secretary of PS Olivier Faure – whose defeat he hopes to the Congress -, who recognized Sunday evening the existence of a “Left anti -Semitism”.
If Jérôme Guedj, symbol of the malaise of the left on the question of anti -Semitism, assures being “A defender of the two -state solution” in the Middle East, but also “An opponent of colonization carried out in the territories (Palestinians) and Benyamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister, Editor’s note) ”, he assumes “Do not want to use all words, all terms”as “genocide”, “colonial state” or “apartheid” – used by activists of the Palestinian cause to delegitimize the existence of the Hebrew state.
In a semantic and political debate that he considers “Very Manichean”the socialist claims more than ever «nuance». According to him, “There is a continuum between the words that we do not use with discernment, which one is not able to chisel to be within the framework of the peaceful dispute, and the drift towards violence, exclusion and ostracism” of which he says the victim.
