Campaigning in Marseille for the New Popular Front on June 19, Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the PS list in the last European elections, faced the violence of the shock that the rapprochement between his PS group and LFI, with its often claimed anti-Semitic overtones, represented for his voters: “Mr. Glucksmann? I’m not going to vote for you this time because of the others”, “You shouldn’t have done that”, passers-by apostrophe. Until the arrival of a woman who says to him: “Be cursed. As a Jew, be cursed” (for this alliance).
The MEP returned on Friday in the program “It’s yours” on this sequence: “We are touching on something that I find extremely dangerous. During the European campaign, I was attacked by rebellious circles, like being a Zionist and pro-Netanyahu, becausein fine I was reduced to my name and my origin… And there we are in fact witnessing the same phenomenon from the opposite camp. People telling me, ‘Damn you, how can you do that as a Jew‘. Then on the Telegram feeds of the Jewish extreme right, my cell phone number circulated; Since this morning, I have been receiving dozens of calls and text messages per hour on the subject of ‘Be cursed’.”
“Stop reducing my words to my Jewish name”
Glucksmann continues: “Stop reducing my words to my Jewish name. I am French, I was raised in the cult of this republic. I am outraged by this permanent reduction in one direction or the other. never claimed to be Jewish. Being reduced to that is a problem, it is this malaise, it is the defeat of France. It is this France which is threatened today by the degeneration and violence of public debate and. politics. I call for us to pull ourselves together.”
