Accused of fueling anti-Semitism, Jean-Luc Mélenchon recently spoke in the columns of the magazine East XXI. During this interview, the leader of La France Insoumise denied “having failed in his duty” towards the Jewish community. “I feel abandoned by those I have defended all my life. We have never failed in our duty. Nor in the principles on which it is based,” he confided.
And to continue: “The Jewish community that I knew, with whom I campaigned when I was elected from Massy, lived in debate and accepted its differences. There were the ‘cultual’ and the ‘cultural’. The left, ‘was the ‘cultural’ ones.” For Gérard Larcher’s rival, the Jewish community “wrongly” to experience a feeling of abandonment on the part of his party. “We will always be the first to fight without weakness against the spread of racism.”
“Historically, the Jewish community had made the right and judicious choice of the left”, he assured. He deplores that people distort his words and “invent controversies”. “This is part of an ideological war whose aim is to silence opponents. No one has filed a complaint against me for anti-Semitism, yet it is an offense in France. It is therefore that our accusers do not believe it themselves. he reports. A statement which did not fail to provoke a reaction from certain personalities. Starting with Élie Semoun.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the celebrity sights
Visibly amused by the exchange between the politician and our colleagues, the 60-year-old comedian took to his social networks to respond to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “Ah ah ah! I’m going to ask him to be my first part”he wrote in an Instagram story while sharing an article from BFMTV.
Élie Semoun is obviously not the only one to have made fun of the politician. Richard Berry, for his part, was also indignant. “These are the hostages who are abandoned by you and your friends”, he said. For his part, the main interested party has not yet noted.
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