On the sidelines of the negotiations for the creation of the New Popular Front, the subject of the qualification of Hamas has again been at the heart of the debates, as since October 7 and the deadly attack perpetrated on Israeli soil which preceded an unprecedented response. of the Jewish State in Gaza.
The left coalition’s program for the early legislative elections finally revealed these terms: “Hamas terrorist massacres. » This is not, however, an end to the many controversies of recent months, since participants in a mobilization castigated this turnaround in the situation as the elections approach.
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Saturday June 15, during a demonstration against the “extreme right”, many Palestinian flags flew in the streets of central Paris. A demonstrator also took the floor to denounce the choice of the New Popular Front. “The French left is backtracking and calling the resistance “terrorist”. We will not accept it. Palestinian resistance rose up against the occupation. She stood up against Zionism, she stood up against fascism, she stood up for justice.”she shouted to the crowd, according to a video relayed by the Indigenous Party of the Republic.
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“We won’t die alone”
If La France insoumise showed itself to be ambiguous in its way of presenting the Palestinian Islamist movement and the attacks of October 7, other left-wing parties coalition members were not aligned and already described the actions of Hamas as “terrorists”.
The demonstrator also directly targeted left-wing sympathizers mobilized for Palestine since the result of the European elections and not before. “Those who have been on the side for 9 months, where have you been? For nine months that we have been dying under the bombs of the Israeli army, where have you been? You are going out today because the extreme right is at your doors and you are afraid of losing your little privileges”she proclaimed. According to her, France and Gaza are in the same situation: “Today, either you stay with us in the struggle, including after the elections, and we will decolonize together, or we will all die together. We will not die alone because we are facing the same system, here and there: the colonial and capitalist system. »
