the president of Crif expresses his “sadness” and “his anger”

While a member of La France insoumise brandished a Palestinian flag in the National Assembly on Tuesday, May 28, Yonathan Arfi, president of Crif, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, shared on franceinfo his “sadness” and its “anger”. He denounces “the way in which La France insoumise constantly plays provocation within the very institutions of the Republic”. Especially since “this is not the first time. It is part of a constructed strategy, a strategy of excess, of clientelism, of communitarianism which aims to hysterize the public debate until the European elections on June 9”, supports Yonathan Arfi.

“It worries me because it creates a climate of intimidation towards French Jews” And “beyond that it is a threat to public order in general”, he maintains. “There are calls to demonstrate day after day in the streets, there are threats on social networks to march to the Elysée,” he is indignant.

For him, there is “a form of insurrectionary climate of intellectual and political terror. It is a threat to our democracy in general.” The president of Crif denounces “a misguided use of the Palestinian cause”, even if he recognizes “a certain emotion in relation to the distress of the Palestinian civilian population but this emotion is used, exploited by rebellious France”. “They have made it a central campaign argument in the context of the European elections, it’s a dangerous bet,” he concludes.