On the eve of October 7, the Minister of Higher Education, Patrick Hetzel, called on universities to ensure the maintenance of order and respect for neutrality and secularism. It was not to the taste of Jean-Luc Mélenchon who encouraged young people to put Palestinian flags everywhere in universities from October 8.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a brilliant politician. So he knows what he’s doing when he calls for the rebelliousness of young people so that they can fly the Palestinian flag “wherever they can”.
Mélenchon is not calling for these Palestinian flags to be waved on October 7, the anniversary of the pogrom which cost the lives of 1,200 Israelis including 42 French. No, he calls for brandishing them on the 8th! The day after the anniversary of these mass murders, rapes and torture committed by Hamas.
“He knows that anti-Semitism in France is not residual”
He knows, contrary to what he said, that anti-Semitism in France is not residual. He knows the figures for the outbreak of anti-Semitic acts. He knows that pro-Palestinian demonstrations in universities like at Sciences Po have degenerated and that Jewish students are afraid.
He knows that according to Fondapol (Foundation for Political Innovation), more than a third of young French people find it justified that France’s Jews are being attacked because of the policies pursued by Israel and that more than a third of Muslims in France consider that the Jews of France are responsible for this policy.
He knows that 67% of Muslims in France agree with the following sentence: “Israelis behave with Palestinians like Nazis do with Jews.” He also knows that 69% of Muslims in France and more than a third of young people voted for him in the 2022 presidential election. Jean-Luc Mélenchon therefore knows that he is playing with the fire of anti-Semitism to make his electoral business prosper.
“He prefers to stir up hatred”
Mélenchon could use his aura to work for the reconciliation of the French among themselves, but he prefers to stir up hatred. Why did he accuse Madame Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, of “camping in Tel Aviv to encourage the massacres in Gaza”? Why would Benjamin Haddad, Minister Delegate for European Affairs, be “supported by Netanyahu’s policies” according to Mélenchon? Only because they are Jewish.
Under the Fifth Republic, a man also played with the leprosy of anti-Semitism. He also implied that a French minister, Lionel Stoleru, had a hidden allegiance to Israel because he was Jewish. This man, it was Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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