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Israel-Hamas conflict: according to historian Jean-François Colosimo, “leftism” contributes to “distilling” anti-Semitism
Jean-François Colosimo, historian and theologian, is present on the set of 19/20 info, Monday March 18. He speaks following Emmanuel Macron’s speech to the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF).
What does Jean-François Colosimo, historian and theologian, learn from Emmanuel Macron’s speech to the CRIF? “On the one hand, the Jewish fact is consubstantial with France, not since 1789. The Jews have been part of the history of France since Antiquity. There would not have been such a strong knowledge of the Bible in La Sorbonne if there had not been Jewish cheapskates to teach Hebrew and Aramaic, he reacts. (…) The second point is that the president insisted, rightly, on the fact Anti-Zionism has become the mask for a completely ferocious anti-Semitism.”
The responsibility of “leftism”
“It would still be necessary, alongside Islamism, to also pose this leftism which distills this anti-Semitism”he continues, saddened by the fate “universities and schools”, “to suffering from this point of view”. Jean-François Colosimo would also like to point out that October 7 “awakened the memory of the Shoah”following which a “delusional anti-Semitism has been unleashed globally”. A responsibility that falls partly “to the crisis of globalization“.
“The Jew is once again accused of being in some way the root of all evil. That’s anti-Semitism. (…) When we attend, including in France, parades where it is said that Israel is committing genocide, that the Israelis are worse than Hitler, that means that there is a bankruptcy of the monumental school, or that there are ideological manipulations which will stop at nothing”he concludes on this point.
