Gilles-William Goldnadel is a lawyer and essayist. Every week, he deciphers the news for FigaroVox.
To name the last burlesque extravaganzas of certain leftist associations which once impressed the bewildered spectator with complacent advertising, the amateur of comedy hesitates between the
Precious Ridicules
and the
Tartuffe
.
The last performances of the UNEF before, perhaps, a lowering of the curtain, are worth the detour.
The far-left student association that had touched the sky of prestige in the heat of May 1968 had first hit the ground when it was learned that despite her once uncompromising secularism, a prominent official was wearing the veil. .
It is also true that the numerous recriminations of unionized female students complaining of the behavior of overly ardent or even violent male comrades had also made a bad impression.
The fact that the secretary general at the time (2006-2009) was called Caroline de Haas, who we would have thought more attentive, had added to the deceptive anguish.
But the latest incredible events could well deal the blow of disgrace.
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It is, among other reasons for bickering, the disputes in 2017 between supporters of Benoît Hamon and aficionados of Jean-Luc Mélenchon which precipitated a movement already largely in decline, at the bottom of the ravine.
That same year, seven members of the national office and its treasurer had been dismissed because of their extreme proximity to France Insoumise.
But it is in this month of April that the movement will have sunk into vaudeville.
As Le Figaro
tells it
, a violent incident in October opposed Imane Oueladj, newly elected president, to a member of the National Bureau.
The president reproached the second for her lack of loyalty.
But this one presents a far more dramatic version of events: “
I was locked in a room and read private messages on my phone without my consent in order to prove my alleged dishonesty.
For more than two hours I was threatened, intimidated.
It was very violent psychologically
”.
A grief-stricken lawyer would see it as a serious offense for less than that.
Following his latest escapades, the Minister of the Interior would have committed, in the eyes of the reverent left, a crime of lèse-majesté.
What am I writing too lightly?
A blasphemy worthy of the stake!
The minister dared to question the legitimacy of the Holy League to receive the denier of worship or, more prosaically, that of our taxes.
Gilles-William Goldnadel
But President Ouelhadj disputes part of the facts: “
She read some of her text messages which clearly proved her desire to sabotage our actions.
She drove us crazy and I ended up losing my temper.
I started yelling at him.
I shouldn't have, I was tired
.
Following which, the exasperated president was hospitalized for a week because of “burn-out”: “
I had before me a people's court, with some militants who wanted to organize a putsch.
I understood that their objective was to push me to the limit in order to make me leave my post
.
It is believed that some members of the association would leave it without tears and without baggage for another very close to the Insoumis.
Last I heard, the corpse is still moving.
The Candide who still imagined a UNEF filled with peaceful left-wing ideals and tender camaraderie will have to revise his classics: Tartuffe unmasked or the Precious ones ridiculed?
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Now let's move on to LDH, where the same gloomy diagnosis had already been imposed for ages.
Here again, the League of Human Rights lives, like any good leftist NGO, on a largely usurped reputation, and on an uncontrolled designation.
Following his latest escapades, the Minister of the Interior would have committed, in the eyes of the reverent left, a crime of lèse-majesté.
What am I writing too lightly?
A blasphemy worthy of the stake!
The minister dared to question the legitimacy of the Holy League to receive the denier of worship or, more prosaically, that of our taxes.
His last exploit will have been, in accordance with his ideology, to victimize the violent and illegal demonstrators of Sainte-Soline while making the gendarmes feel guilty who were only doing their duty.
By lying shamelessly.
She will indeed have succeeded in fooling a large part of the public - with the kind collaboration of Le
Monde
and
Mediapart
- into believing that the wicked gendarmes would have deliberately prevented the helpers from coming to treat the poor injured demonstrators.
In reality, these could only be authorized to intervene when all risk of not receiving Molotov cocktails from enraged people who were sometimes stuck on S would be ruled out.
In passing, we will notice the drift of the left-wing press in terms of scrupulous respect for journalistic truth.
I refer my reader to my article in these same columns devoted to the invention by
Liberation
of imaginary pogroms committed by the ultra-right in several cities in France the day after the France-Morocco football match.
These are the same newspapers which, moreover, track down
fakes
on the Internet with the assistance of very serious and ruthless fact-checkers.
To return to the League of Human Rights, it had not waited for this month of April to commit itself.
One could summarize lady LDH as an Islamo-leftist militant in three letters.
Secularist with variable geometry, more obsessed with declining Catholicism than with conquering Islam, she supports the veil and the burkini but in 2016 she unsuccessfully launched a lawsuit against the Christmas crib in Beaucaire.
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In September 2001 she attacked Houellebecq who sharply criticized Islam and was dismissed.
Worse still, it attacks, with other associations of the same flour, my dear George Bensoussan who had had the audacity to question Islamic anti-Semitism.
Again, she loses all the lawsuits.
In the same vein, she campaigned in vain for the release of the terrorist Ibrahim Abdallah, condemned by French justice for having participated in the assassination of two American and Israeli diplomats.
With an undeniable ideological consistency, the League supports Tarik Ramadan, vituperates Robert Redeker threatened with death by the Islamists and marches in step with France Insoumise during the demonstration organized by the CCIF “against Islamophobia”.
A last memory: the current president of the League, Patrick Baudoin, represented the parent company, the International Federation of Human Rights when it tried in vain to ban in France the firebrand against Islamism, La rage et l
' Pride
, written by my client, the great and late Italian journalist Oriana Falacci.
I wouldn't like to be accused of being miserly, but perhaps you will understand my reluctance to see my taxes subsidizing hypocrites.
At this stage, I no longer have the inclination to invoke Molière.
The comedy of the Rights of Man has gone on long enough.
