Hamas' attack on Israel has brought almost the entire political spectrum into unison. Except France Insoumise. It once again stood out from other partisan forces with its very nuanced condemnation of the aggression launched on Saturday from the Gaza Strip. And by its unspoken words regarding the qualification of Hamas, despite the fact that it has been labelled a "terrorist organization" by a plethora of international bodies. Enough to make the Nupes waver a little more, and give the executive grist to grind.
Guest of the program Quotidien Tuesday evening, the Minister of the Interior did not go with a dead hand and put his finger on a sensitive point: the relationship that Jean-Luc Mélenchon's movement has with the Jews of France and more generally with Israel. Asked about the anti-Semitism of La France Insoumise, Gérald Darmanin, who makes the link between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, considers that "it has not demonstrated the opposite." "Today, wanting the end of the State of Israel, its destruction, is often a mask against the Jews," the interior minister thundered.
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The conflict in the Middle East having put on hold the strictly national debates, La France Insoumise wishes, according to the member of the government, to use politically this war in France. "There may be politicians, especially on the far left, who want to use it for internal purposes," scoffs the tenant of Place Beauvau. And he mocked Mr. Mélenchon's "very cynical electoral strategy, not at all based on convictions, which is to use the neighborhoods or what he believes to be the neighborhoods to have a very important electoral base."
For Gérald Darmanin, the tactic of the rebellious leader amounts to focusing on a typical population that would necessarily be pro-Palestinian or fed by anti-police hatred: the former presidential candidate "continues, as we have seen for 48 hours, in front of despicable images, - babies who would have died, a youth who would be broke, acts of torture, Hostages taken in front of the eyes of the world - unfortunately playing into the electoral game to get 20-25% in the presidential election.""It's a crime against intelligence. It is an act of fault and a political crime," he said.
While fifty anti-Semitic acts have been reported to the services of the State since this weekend, the first cop of France also indicated that those responsible for these physical or verbal attacks may be "fundamentalist or radical Islamists, people who come from abroad, from the ultra-left." Even if it's "too early" to see the big picture. If "the problem affects every country in the world," France has "the third Jewish community in the world, the first in Europe." The State intends "particularly to protect it.
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