It is an association that makes people react.
Friday, June 3, Danièle Obono, who came to support Danielle Simonnet, Nupes candidate in the 15th district of Paris, was accompanied by Jeremy Corbyn, MP for London and former leader of the Labor Party.
The politician had been suspended from his party in 2020 following the publication of a report pointing to his lack of initiative in the face of cases of anti-Semitism in the ranks of the left.
He has since been reinstated, although not allowed to sit in the Labor Party in the House of Commons.
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Accusations of appeasement in the face of anti-Semitic acts date back to 2015, when Jeremy Corbyn took over as party leader.
Mike Katz, who leads the Jewish Labor Movement, bringing together Jewish adherents, explained in 2019 in
Le Figaro
:
“Since he became president
,
a culture of anti-Semitism has been tolerated and has poisoned the party at all levels.
Twice in 2018, the MP issued a public apology to those who had been
"hurt"
by comments made by
"small groups within the party"
.
But these gestures had not appeased the critics either in the public sphere or within his formation.
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It must be said that in the past, Jeremy Corbyn and the left wing of Labor did not take the gloves off to criticize Israel, flirting with anti-Zionist rhetoric, a position which, according to some intellectuals, could conceal an underlying anti-Semitism.
The deputy had himself left room for suspicion when he had described the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas as
"friendly"
movements (a statement he has since regretted).
In 2010, he even had dinner with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal during a visit to Gaza.
In 2020, following the publication of the report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the commission responsible for enforcing equality and human rights laws in the UK, on the role played by Jeremy Corbyn and his team in handling anti-Semitic affairs within Labour, the Socialist MP felt that "the
extent of the problem has been exaggerated by our opponents inside and outside the party as well as by the majority of the media.
A challenge to the results of the investigation which had earned him the suspension of the Labor authorities.
Before being reinstated a few days later, against the advice of some of the elected Labor officials and the new party boss.
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Why this choice of Danièle Obono to appear alongside Jeremy Corbyn?
Many people are asking the question on Twitter.
For Lamia El Aaraje, opposed to Danielle Simonnet during the legislative elections and invested by the Socialist Party, it is "
a shame
": "
The masks fall: invite and show the support of Jeremy Corbyn dismissed from the Labor Party and the group for complacency with anti-Semitism in England
,” lambasted the candidate in a tweet, adding that “
the left cannot accept this!
".