“The Jews did not take enough, I would have liked to be in Amsterdam to run some of them,” said Ismael Boudjekada, municipal councilor of Grand-Charmont, on his social networks. Unbearable anti-Semitic remarks.
Two days after supporters of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel-Aviv were violently attacked by groups of individuals in the streets of Amsterdam, Ismaël Boudjekada, an elected official from Doubs, made anti-Semitic remarks during of a conversation filmed on social networks.
Questioned about the events, the politician known for his anti-Zionist speeches which hit the headlines, estimated that the Jews targeted by the clashes “did not take enough”, a few seconds after declaring that “ “anti-Semitism is a term that was invented.”
During the night from Thursday to Friday, between 20 and 30 Maccabi fans were injured. Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema indicated at a press conference that groups of individuals had kicked supporters of the Israeli club. “It’s an explosion of anti-Semitism that I hope to never see again,” she added, saying she was “ashamed” of this violence.
“Yes, Hamas is a resistance movement”
“I would have liked to be in Amsterdam to race a few of them,” continued Ismaël Boudjekada. The elected official from Doubs then uttered insults against the deputy for the 8th constituency of French people outside France, Caroline Yadan.
“Yes, Hamas is a resistance movement. (…) France itself is plagued by the Zionist cancer,” the politician then assured.
On October 15 and 18, the latter had already made similar comments about Hamas Yahya Sinouar. The deputy for the 3rd district of Doubs, Mathieu Bloch then contacted the public prosecutor of Montbéliard. Ismaël Boudjekada faces a sentence of seven years in prison, a €100,000 fine and a new sanction for ineligibility for advocating terrorism on the Internet.
Last June, he had already been sentenced for the same reason by the Nanterre court. Indeed, he had already described Hamas as a “resistance movement”, two days after the terrorist attack of October 7 which resulted in the death of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data.
