The lies of Jean-Luc Mélenchon | EUROtoday

HAS The day earlier than demonstrations in opposition to the acute proper and racism scheduled for Saturday March 22 by a number of left-wing organizations, Jean-Luc Mélenchon refused to make amends, even asking himself as a sufferer, whereas inside the left rose the indignation aroused by the picture broadcast by rebellious France (LFI) on its account X ten days earlier, then retired rapidly. The black and white shot confirmed the face of the tv host Cyril Hanouna, distorted by a threatening grin. It borrowed from the codes of anti -Semitic cinema, recalling the posters of Nazi propaganda movies launched in 1940 as The everlasting Jew, of Fritz Hipler, or THE Jew Süss, de Veit Harlan.

That a company claiming to be of the left chooses a clearly anti -Semitic illustration, which is extra to name for a parade in opposition to racism, is each worrying and scandalous. That his chief not solely finds nothing to complain about, however pretending to not perceive the unworthiness of the method displays a false drift which tends, whereas claiming to be the goal of a marketing campaign of the acute proper, to control prejudices which we all know the place they led Europe.

Because if the coordinator of LFI, Manuel Bompard, and the pinnacle of “rebellious” deputies, Mathilde Panot, ended up recognizing a ” error “ that they’ve unusually linked to the usage of synthetic intelligence,, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was unable to oppose solely a thunderous “Shut up!” »» To the journalist of France 3 who, on March 16, requested him if the selection of this picture was incorrect. On France Inter, the place he was requested the identical query, he had answered, as if he didn’t know the anti -Semitic message of the photograph: “We should examine the faith of individuals we caricature on a regular basis. »»

The denial reached its climax at a public assembly in Brest on March 19. The LFI chief has as soon as once more overplayed anger, difficult the accusations of anti -Semitism in an offender, and saying the historical past of historical past, ignore the posters of Nazi propaganda movies. “No bowl, we should not have these posters, we’re not conscious, we have no idea. All proper ? “, he thundered, saying that the image in question “Is solely broadcast by the acute proper and journalists.”

While the hearing, especially among the youth, of the leader of LFI gives him a particular responsibility to avoid the spread of racism and anti -Semitism, it continues, for electoral ends, to address winks to the part of the population which, including in working -class districts, is sensitive to anti -Jewish prejudices.

This is called playing with fire, when the massacres committed during the terrorist operation of October 7 and the war in Gaza exacerbates anger. This also means breaking with the long tradition of fighting against racism and anti -Semitism of the left, and reconnecting with the anti -Jewish drifts which have not always spared the latter. This amounts to making the play of the extreme right, whose recent philosity positioning cannot make us forget its weight in French anti -Semitism, yesterday as today.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who dreams of facing Marine Le Pen in 2027, targets the “system” to better destroy everything that is between her and him on the political chessboard, pretending to ignore that his drifts are increasingly evoking those of certain leaders of the pre-war period. Adventures that have always ended in marginality and dishonor.