"But who ?" : What does this anti-Semitic slogan written on the signs of anti-health pass protesters mean?

This Monday morning, a young woman was arrested for holding up a sign with the words "

Mais qui?"

»In red during the demonstration against the sanitary pass on Saturday August 7th.

The photo quickly made the rounds on social networks, arousing indignation from the political and media class because of its character considered anti-Semitic.

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Indeed, it is possible to read following the slogan “

But who?

"Several names of personalities in the political and media sphere qualified as" traitors ":"

Fabius, Attali, Buzyn, Attal, Véran, BFM Drahi, Macron, Salomon, Sorhos, K. Schwab, BHL, Ferguson ...

" really this sign?

Where does this slogan come from and why is it called anti-Semitic?

Le Figaro

takes stock.

Where does the slogan "

But who

" come from?

This slogan probably originates from an interview on CNEWS with retired general Dominique Delawarde - one of the signatories of the “generals” platform. On June 18, the former general was interviewed by Claude Posternak, member of the political bureau of LREM, also a guest of the show. The latter asked him "

who

", according to him, controlled "

the media pack

". To which Dominique Delawarde replied: "

It is the community that you know well

", implying the Jewish community.

On Twitter, the Licra, the association SOS Racisme and the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) had denounced the words of the former soldier, who would have thus shown "

his face, racist and anti-Semitic

".

How did this slogan arrive in the anti-sanitary pass processions?

Following this controversy, many accounts on social networks began to use this video under the hashtag "

#qui

".

Radical accounts then began to publish false infographics of the French media landscape featuring “

Jewish

” or supposed Jewish officials, as the newspaper

Liberation

explained on

 July 31.

As a consequence in real life, in recent weeks it has been possible to observe some signs with “

Who?

In the hands of some anti-sanitary pass protesters.

Why is this slogan considered anti-Semitic?

On July 24, after a demonstration that brought together more than 160,000 people across France, demonstrators were seen waving this sign.

Some were interviewed by a far-right YouTube channel at the Trocadéro in Paris, as reported by the newspaper

Liberation

.

These then utter anti-Semitic clichés of all kinds, denouncing

“well poisoners”

or even “

greed

”.

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In front of the camera, a young woman expresses herself:

"They have a lot of resentment towards whites, they have a bad background, they consider us as animals, it is written in the Talmud and they absolutely want to crossbreed us with [word beeped] intrinsically inferior

,

”

continues the young woman.

And chanting:

"It would have been better if they did not exist",

notes the daily

.

It's hard not to understand the meaning of these signs.

Reactions of the political class

The Minister of the Interior immediately condemned the sign brandished in Metz, recalling that anti-Semitism is "

a crime, in no way an opinion

". He said that these "

words will not go unpunished

".

The former Prime Minister Manuel Valls recalled that it was necessary to fight "

with an implacable firmness

" anti-Semitism, which, according to him, is often "

harbinger of the worst

". Nathalie Loiseau, LREM MEP, asked that the entire political class denounce "

without waiting and without calculation

": "

Those who will be silent, if there is any, will sign their indignity. There is nothing to understand, only to fight this foul hatred.

""

There is an assumed anti-Semitism among these demonstrators. Odious. Unbearable,

”she wrote on Twitter.

Other personalities responded, including Bernard-Henri Lévy who calls for “

those who sincerely defend freedoms to open their eyes.

Let them stop swelling the ranks of factionists who, rather than the vaccine, would give France a double dose of populism and hatred.

"

The Licra for its part announced to seize its legal commission in order to examine whether criminal proceedings are possible.