Gilles-William Goldnadel is a lawyer and essayist. Each week, he deciphers the news for FigaroVox.
New statements made by the leader of the Insoumis party have led some to wonder again if Jean-Luc Mélenchon is not anti-Semitic. On October 29, at the microphone of BFMTV, the latter declared that Eric Zemmour would be a representative candidate of "
cultural scenarios of Judaism
" namely "
do not change the tradition
" and "
have creolization in horror
". Good prince, this allowed Mélenchon to exonerate Zemmour of all anti-Semitism and even to recognize charitably that this jealous nationalism had allowed the dispersed people to survive in history. Quite frankly, I consider that an anti-Semitism trial launched on the basis of this single statement seems excessive and even unfair.
I do not consider in any way insulting the Melenchonian description of a Jewish people concerned with its cultural and national preservation.
Gilles-William Goldnadel
Of course, if such remarks had been made by Marine Le Pen, my imagination is powerless to describe the media reaction they would have triggered and SOS Racisme would undoubtedly be fulminating a few complaints.
The CRIF would howl at the return of the foul beast.
I already smell the scent of bundles.
But it is not under the pretext that the derelict far left still enjoys an unfair privilege of impunity that its members should be treated unfairly.
Consequently, I do not rule out the hypothesis that the leader of French political Islamo-leftism had no directly Judeophobic intentions.
I go even further, I do not consider in any way insulting the Melenchonian description of a Jewish people concerned with its cultural and national preservation.
All my intellectual and political struggle is precisely to advocate it for all peoples.
Wishing the preservation of the French identity in France and Jewish in Israel, any cultural scenario contrary to forced interbreeding or creolization is mine.
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The nation-state is not a sect or a tribe, only the structure best suited to protect a people.
On this subject, I recommend reading the excellent
Les Vertus du nationalisme
by Yoram Hazony (Éditions Jean-Cyril Godefroy) which I had the honor to preface in its French version.
The judge that I am not having released Citizen Mélenchon for the benefit of the doubt, I will now explain the deadly dangerousness of this far-left thought for all nations, and not just the Jewess.
It is because Mélenchon and his family consider that this narrow and outdated desire to want to preserve its cultural and national identity is consubstantially racist. In fact, they only proscribe it for the sole purpose of Western peoples. It is for them and for them alone that creolization is ordered. The obligatory interbreeding embodying moreover the same racial fantasy in the 21st century, as the ideology of pure blood in the 20th century, we have simply gone from the exaltation of the Aryan to that of the nothing at all.
Obviously, this imperative injunction to renounce his identity (now all his identities including sexual and gender) concerns only the white Westerner.
The African, the Muslim Arab - and in particular the Palestinian - being on the contrary encouraged to claim their differences, starting with their sufferings.
Bad luck: when the nationalist extreme right dominated the intellectual space, the Jew was seen as a stateless spineless.
Now that the far left is still (a little) in majesty, here it is moving through Israel like a belligerent nationalist.
Gilles-William Goldnadel
In this benevolent framework to the point of complacency, neither borders, nor religion, nor aggressive nationalism are taken for faults. It is in this phantasmic and Manichean framework that the Jewish people is experienced as a retrograde anachronism. Bad luck: when the nationalist extreme right dominated the intellectual space, the Jew was seen as a stateless spineless. Now that the far left is still (a little) in majesty, here it is moving through Israel like a belligerent nationalist. Yesterday, metic, here he is now looked at by the far left and his allies from their Islamized neighborhoods like a white squared man.
But if Monsieur Mélenchon's dangerous game had not been limited to this somewhat treacherous remark, he would not have deserved this wicked trial. It is because our tribune in punishment is a dangerous repeat offender. It was he who led his party in this demonstration against Islamophobia where the Muslim had become the new suffering Jew shamelessly wearing a yellow star. Yet it is the Jews who continue to be massacred in France.
It was he who, still at the microphone of BFMTV, quietly took up the accusation of the deicidal Jewish people.
Exactly like his hero Chavez before him, more regretted and mourned by the rebellious leader than by his submissive Venezuelan people.
It was Mélenchon who until the end supported his comrade Jeremy Corbyn, ostracized from his own Labor Party after his defeat, for purulent anti-Semitism.
Defeat that his French friend will have blamed on the Chief Rabbi of England.
I do not know if M. Mélenchon is an anti-Semite and, to tell the truth, I do not care.
But I know he doesn't mind cajoling the worst enemies of the Jews.
The most dangerous too, and without his caring.
