“The times designate me as Jewish,” regrets Michel Hazanavicius

“I have the impression that the times designate me as Jewish”regretted the director Michel Hazanavicius at the microphone of France Inter this Tuesday morning. An impression linked to the operation led by Israel to eradicate terrorist forces in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon following the pogrom of October 7. “You define yourself as a Jew who has never given a damn, but you have the impression that you react like a Jew”he was questioned about a column published in The World in August titled “Why do I feel like Jews are the coolest enemies to hate?”. “A sentence from Sartre says that it is the anti-Semite who creates the Jew (in reflections on the Jewish question, Editor’s note)”.

“It’s a sentence that is quite unpleasant, but I think I understand it now. This platform came from a joke where I had the impression that from a minority like the others we had become the paragon of colonialism, of imperialism…”explained the director to explain the origin of his platform. “And within a few weeks I had become naughty. The basic title was Despicable Me, and I called my column that but The World did not keep this title »he added.

Why does every Jew who says or does something stupid have to take all his people with him? Why do I feel like for a while now, Jews have been the coolest haters to hate?

Michel Hazanavicius

“And why, when we put Netanyahu on trial, do I too often hear the trial of Israel, or even the trial of the Jews, instead of simply putting the extreme right on trial, even if it were Israeli?”he wrote there. “And also, why couldn’t a Jewish asshole just be an asshole? Why does every Jew who says or does something stupid have to take all his people with him? Why do I feel like for a while now, Jews have been the coolest haters to hate? Much cooler than the Russians or the Chinese, for example” .

“Certain little things scare or hurt me”he explained on the microphone of France Inter. “A few seconds of hesitation that people have before saying the word Jew, Arab, Palestine, or Israel. People say you're 'uh' Jewish? That little 'uh' there is terrible. There is an overprotection, a precaution, a fear of these subjects which is not normal. It doesn't matter to be Jewish or Arab, everything is fine”he concluded.