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The author Joann Sfar did not appreciate a tweet from the deputy for Haute-Garonne, Hadrien Clouet. The latter was reacting to an interview extract from the customary designer of anti-LFI positions.
Accustomed to taking anti-LFI positions, Joann Sfar spoke on RTL. Come to present his new comic strip What to do with the Jews? in the RTL morning show, Joann Sfar once again denounced the wanderings of part of the left, allied to the Insoumis. He declares in particular: “LFI used anti-Semitism to bring together youth” or “LFI goes beyond the excesses that Jean-Marie Le Pen never allowed himself”.
Elected officials from France Insoumise are regularly accused of anti-Semitism, through ambiguous statements. The media release of the author of Rabbi's Cat clearly did not please the Insoumis parliamentarian from Haute-Garonne.
The deputy for the first constituency tweeted on This slip-up sparked indignation on social networks, particularly given the origins of Sfar, part of whose family was deported by the Nazis.
Joann Sfar is now trying to rehabilitate the SS, to make negationism invisible, to trivialize “jokes about the Shoah”.
What a wreck. Orthogonal to his works. https://t.co/CqFRmKKSzJ
— Hadrien Clouet (@HadrienClouet) https://twitter.com/HadrienClouet/status/1882454550654923177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Joann Sfar was quick to respond in turn: “Usually, it is anonymous trolls who post this kind of insults. Today, he is a deputy. Calling a Jew a Nazi. Making Jews responsible for anti-Semitism.” A response which fuels a little more controversy. Without backpedaling, Hadrien Clouet in another tweet seemed to regret his first statement: “A more calm response was possible. But the withering was such that I said what was on my heart.”
Usually it's anonymous trolls who post this kind of insults. Today he is a deputy. Calling a Jew a Nazi. Making Jews responsible for anti-Semitism. Well done! @HadrienClouet pic.twitter.com/KJ2AOhIYpC
— Sfar Joann (@joannsfar) https://twitter.com/joannsfar/status/1882468420266160510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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These deputies, these methods, these crazy reversals… https://t.co/LRheJhXJp5
— Caroline Fourest (@CarolineFourest) https://twitter.com/CarolineFourest/status/1882680170735362413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
In fact when they used the words of Nazism to qualify the French Jews with links to Israel as pro-genocides and then as genocidaires, they were giving themselves the excuse of anti-Zionism. Now they accuse a Jew of being for the Nazis.
Tweet edited pic.twitter.com/k1xnJt9Vta— Mathias Wargon (@wargonm) https://twitter.com/wargonm/status/1882650801606361327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Full support to @joannsfar faced with these words: hurtful, dismaying, distressing. https://t.co/QDOtAq4zqe
— Michaël Delafosse (@MDelafosse) https://twitter.com/MDelafosse/status/1882526300088496147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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