The signatories, including the actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the designer Joann Sfar, demand “a non-negotiable common minimum” against anti-Semitism.
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A collective of 70 political, cultural and associative personalities, including former Prime Ministers Elisabeth Borne, Bernard Cazeneuve and Manuel Valls, call on European candidates to get involved “without detour and without complacency” against anti-Semitism, in a column published Thursday March 21 by the newspaper The world.
The signatories, including the actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, her counterpart in Nice, Christian Estrosi, the designer Joann Sfar or the Chief Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia, ask candidates for the European elections “a common non-negotiable minimum” against anti-Semitism.
“At the dawn of the next European elections, and because the democratic stakes are major – well beyond the fate of the Jews – we call on the Republican candidates to get involved. Without detour and without complacency. For a common minimum incompressible and indispensable. Whoever saves a life, whatever it may be, saves all of humanity.” write the signatories.
A 1,000% increase in anti-Semitic acts
They highlight the unprecedented increase in anti-Semitic acts recorded in France since October 7, the date of the bloody attack by Hamas in Israel which, in retaliation, declared a war for “annihilate” the Palestinian Islamist movement, relentlessly shelling the Gaza Strip. According to a report from the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), anti-Semitic acts increased by 1,000% between October 7 and the end of 2023.
“We ask for nothing more than others. But nothing less either. Just a common non-negotiable minimum. Against anti-Semitism in all its forms. Against hatred. Against xenophobia. So that loneliness changes sides” , adds the tribune. “We refuse to pay the heaviest price of a fractured society in search of a common enemy to unite”proclaim the signatories.