the chilling remarks of a municipal elected official on anti-Semitic attacks in Amsterdam

Shocking comments and proven anti-Semitism. In a video published on social networks, Ismael Boudjekada, municipal councilor in Grand-Charmont (Doubs), speaks about the attacks suffered by Maccabi Tel-Aviv supporters in Amsterdam on the sidelines of a football match.

Without filter, the elected official from Franche-Comté asserts that “the Jews have not taken enough” and regrets not having been present in Amsterdam that evening, “to give a few of them a run”. Comments punctuated by an injunction with homophobic overtones: “record carefully, stupid that you are!” All while declaring that anti-Semitism was an “invented” term and that the sinister events occurring in the Dutch capital would “continue”. Still in this video, Ismael Boudjekada argues that France is “plagued by the Zionist cancer” and assures that “at the end of history, we know that we will win”.

He called the Hamas leader a hero

A diatribe which logically made the entire Jewish community jump. On CNews, David-Olivier, member of the Crif steering committee, calls on the competent authorities to quickly “render a legal decision in the face of this hatred which is carried with the shell of elected representatives of the Republic”. On X, the main person denounces a “harassment campaign” against him.

However, Ismael Boudjekada is not his first attempt. A few weeks ago, after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, he called the mastermind of the October 7 attacks in Israel a “hero”. “Western media refuse to share some of his deeply pacifist statements. I would rather end my days in prison than prostitute myself. This martyr is one of the luckiest among us,” he wrote on X.

Homosexuality is not “in the natural order of things”

The Ciottist deputy Mathieu Bloch then took legal action against him, reports France 3 Bourgogne-France Comté. On June 20, he was sentenced to a 20,000 euro fine and three years of ineligibility for advocating terrorism after declaring that Hamas was a “Palestinian resistance movement”. At the same time, he affirmed on Sud-Radio that homosexuality was not “in the natural order of things”, emphasizing that it was a “sin” in Islam, which could nevertheless be “forgiven”.