The comparison sparked outrage.
During her meeting in Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) on Sunday, Anne Hidalgo estimated that the
"language of the 1930s which reviled the foreigner, which exalted hatred of the Jews"
, was today
"applied"
to Muslims.
One way to target without naming Eric Zemmour, one of his opponents in the presidential election of 2022. The latter has replied since his trip to Armenia, and considers that the words of Anne Hidalgo are "
delusional and insulting to the Jews in the years 30 ”
.
The leader of "Reconquest!"
sees there
"a candidate who does everything to make people talk about her and get her head out of the water"
.
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"Derivative"
The words of the Socialist have also been denounced by part of the political class, except among its left competitors.
“Anne Hidalgo dares to compare the fate of the Jews in the 1930s to that of the Muslims in France in 2021. Irresponsible, false and dangerous!
An unworthy trivialization of hatred for electoral purposes which fractures the nation, ”
notably denounced on Twitter Éric Ciotti, LR deputy and right-wing Congress finalist.
“Objectively, this remark is despicable.
Compare the situation today of Muslims in France who have absolutely all rights, total freedom protected by the Constitution, with what the Jews have been able to experience, it is unworthy of Madame Hidalgo ”
, also blasted Marine Le Pen, the RN candidate, invited to RMC on Monday morning.
“I do not understand this drift of the candidate Anne Hidalgo that I know much more moderate. The Lépine competition for the most shocking sentence seems open,
”also lamented the LREM deputy, François Jolivet.
"Compare the situation of Muslims in France today with the fate reserved for Jews in the 1930s, it is shameful, abject and it is an unbearable insult to the memory of the martyrs of the Shoah"
, also fulminated Pierre Liscia , regional advisor close to Valérie Pécresse, the LR candidate for the presidential election.
Not new to the left
Faced with criticism, the socialist Jérôme Guedj defended his candidate on Twitter by asserting that she was not comparing
"nothing"
but that she
"denounces the words of the extreme right"
and
"the consistency of words of hatred"
. This is not the first time, however, that figures on the left have claimed to observe similarities between hatred of Jews in the 1930s and the situation of Muslims today. Last February, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate of La France Insoumise, for example considered that the current criticisms against
"Islamo-leftism"
are comparable with those against
"Judeo-Bolshevism"
, a term used at the time by the Nazi regime against the Jews and the Communists
.
“They link the left to a religion and they link religion to terrorism.
“
Go nutmeg
”
, it's the same trick, it's the same way of doing things, ”
he assured in a video posted on his YouTube channel.
More recently, Fabien Roussel, Communist presidential candidate, had also declared at the beginning of December on France Info that Eric Zemmour represented
"France of the 1930s which is preparing for collaboration"
.
The flag bearer of the PCF had notably judged that the candidate of “Reconquest!”
targeted
"particularly judges, journalists, Muslims, feminists, gays and lesbians
."
"
It is all the same the criteria of a speech of the extreme right for a pure race
", he had affirmed.
