Asked about France Inter on Saturday April 17 on
“Islamo-leftism”
, the former minister Benoît Hamon declared:
“I observe that we spoke of the“ Judeo-Bolsheviks ”before the Second World War, the same , the same current, now it is the Islamo-leftists. We do not realize where we are going today. ”
By making this historical parallel, Benoît Hamon warned of the return of the same, omnipresent intellectual tropism on the left, which consists in comparing the present situation with the 1930s and the rise of fascism with the consequences that we know. He is not the only one to rush into this breach. Historian Shlomo Sand, who himself
"ceased to be a Jew"
out of empathy for the Palestinian cause, had made this analogy too.
Bouncing back on the more and more widespread use of the term
"Islamo-leftism",
he referred to his Polish communist father, who was once described as
"Judeo-Bolshevik"
.
To read also:
Luc Ferry: "The three ages of Islamo-leftism"
Today the term
"Islamo-leftist"
does not designate an intellectual
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