VIDEO. “Stop reducing my words to the fact of having a Jewish name,” says Place Publique MEP Raphaël Glucksmann

While the issue of anti-Semitism was placed at the heart of the early legislative election campaign, Raphaël Glucksmann denounced a “deep discomfort” in French society, marked by “the degeneration and violence of public debate and political debate”Friday June 21, on the set of “C à Vous”, on France 5. He says he is “attacked by rebellious circles as being Zionist and pro-Netanyahu, while all [sa] policy is to condemn that of [Benyamin] Netanyahu”. He regrets having been, he believes, reduced to his name and his origins.

“On the Telegram loops of the Jewish extreme right, there is my cell phone number circulating and since this morning, 6 a.m., I have been receiving dozens and dozens of calls and text messages per hour on the theme: ‘ Be cursed'”relates the Place Publique MEP while a woman threw this phrase at him during a campaign, according to images broadcast in the program on Thursday in the “Quotidien” program.

“Stop reducing my words to the fact of having a Jewish name! I am French. I act, I think, I decide as a French citizen (…). I am deeply outraged by this permanent reduction , one way or the other.”he continued.

For the legislative elections, Raphaël Glucksmann called on the candidates of the left-wing alliance New Popular Front to withdraw in the second round of the legislative elections if they came third, in the event of a triangular, in order to beat the National Rally (RN). “Even when there are triangulars, I would not hesitate for there to be a withdrawal if the candidates of the new Popular Front are third and are not able to beat the National Rally”did he declare.