it’s “a permanent fight, an eternal fight”, reacts Édouard Philipe

“I think that the fight against anti-Semitism is a permanent fight, an eternal fight”, reacts Monday, November 13 on franceinfo Édouard Philippe, former Prime Minister and mayor of Le Havre (Horizons), the day after the demonstrations against anti-Semitism which brought together 182,000 people across France. He himself participated in the Paris march. France showed “a handsome face” Sunday sums up Édouard Philipe who says to himself “happy” of the‘”atmosphere” in which this event took place: “calm, sobriety, seriousness”.

The former Prime Minister, however, insists that the fight must continue. It is “a struggle which comes from so far away, which is so old and so difficult, that we will never see the end of it”, he analyzes, specifying that it is not only “anchor” In France. “Perhaps some people believed, after the Second World War, that we were arriving in a new era where finally all of humanity, as a whole, realized that anti-Semitism had no basis and that it was to be avoided: clearly, we have not arrived at this stage in the evolution of humanity and it is a fight that our generation must lead.underlines the former Prime Minister, unfortunately predicting “that other generations will still have to drive it”. This fight against anti-Semitism is “essential” repeated the mayor of Le Havre. “We must tell our fellow citizens that we must fight, tell them that it will not pass: anti-Semitism will not pass, it is not acceptable, we do not want it, it is the worst of what France can do.

Édouard Philippe also continues to criticize the discourse of France Insoumise on the subject of the fight against anti-Semitism since October 7 and the Hamas attacks in Israel. The Insoumis were notably absent from the Parisian march on Sunday. “Unfortunately, a certain number of declarations from France Insoumise were not ambiguous at all: they used the codes, the words of an ancient and perfectly abject anti-Semitism,” underlines the president of the Horizon party. “Some get lost by not expressing in a resolute, immediate, unconditional way the fact that anti-Semitism is an error, a demon”accuses Édouard Philippe on franceinfo, pointing in particular to the “conflict” tactics carried out by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Absent on Sunday in the Parisian procession, members of the Insoumis refused to march due to the presence of the National Rally. A presence that does not pose “no problem” to Édouard Philippe. “If we say that the fight against anti-Semitism is an essential fight […] in this case, we do not choose those who fight this fight with you”he adds, recalling that he did not “no tenderness” for the RN and that remains “a political adversary”.