is the fresco representing Emmanuel Macron and Jacques Attali in Avignon anti-Semitic?

On the wall of a transformer north ofAvignon (Vaucluse) finds a painting of Emmanuel Macron, represented as a puppet. The one pulling the strings is Jacques Attali, an economist and political adviser from a Jewish family. Some don’t see the problem. “I see no reference to Nazi or anti-Semitic iconography, and I work in image“, says a user. others are outraged, especially associations anti-racists like LICRA, or the Union of Jewish Students of France. “Refusing to delete it in the name of ‘freedom of expression’ is an outrage“, posted on Twitter Raphael GlucksmanEuropean deputy.

The local authorities and the socialist municipality believe that everyone is free to interpret the work as they wish. But for Tal Bruttmana historian specializing in anti-Semitism, there is no doubt: “The fresco is anti-Semitic“. the hidden jew in the shadows that rules the political landscape is well known, and appears at the end of the 19th century, with a significant diffusion of anti-Semitic cartoons in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, and especially during the Second World War.

Lektothe author of the work, is not unknown for his conspiratorial theses. The fresco was finally covered up at the request of the prefect of Vaucluse, because anti-Semitism is not a opinion, but an offense punishable by law.