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Bernard-Henri Lévy: “Not a land, on this planet, which is a shelter for the Jews, that is what October 7 states”

2024-03-18T20:56:26.411Z

Highlights: Bernard-Henri Lévy analyzes the anatomy of the tragedy of October 7. More than a new bloody episode in the Israeli-Arab conflict, he sees it as a pogrom without precedent since the Shoah. The Jews of France had experienced the torture of Ilan Halimi. They had seen the denial of justice that her namesake Sarah Halimi had suffered, post mortem. The France of human rights and Voltaire once again became a country where one could die for being Jewish.


EXCLUSIVE - In his new essay, of which Le Figaro reveals the good pages, the philosopher analyzes the anatomy of the tragedy of October 7. More than a new bloody episode in the Israeli-Arab conflict, he sees it as a pogrom without precedent since the Shoah.


This is not the first time that Israel has been forced into war.

But is this the effect of astonishment created by the new scenario?

The number of deaths?

That of the hostages, whose cause, in Israel, is sacred?

Or the armor of invulnerability of the Jewish State which suddenly fractured?

For Israel, it was a dizzying moment.

And, for Jews throughout the rest of the world, it was a plunge into an unknown abyss.

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The Jews of France had experienced the torture of Ilan Halimi.

They had seen the denial of justice that her namesake Sarah Halimi had suffered, post mortem.

The Toulouse killings in 2012, that of the Hyper Cacher at the Porte de Vincennes in Paris in 2015, the death, in 2018, of Mireille Knoll, a survivor of the Shoah, stabbed at her home, had revealed this unknown evidence. of the thirties themselves: the France of human rights and Voltaire once again became a country where one could die for being Jewish.

Kippah wearers, in Marseille, Créteil, Avignon…

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Source: lefigaro

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