The signatories demand “a common non-negotiable minimum” against anti-Semitism.
A collective of 70 political, cultural and associative personalities calls on European candidates to commit “directly and without complacency” against anti-Semitism, in a column published Thursday by the newspaper Le Monde.
Among the signatories, the actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, the actors Yvan Attal and Gérard Darmon, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, her counterpart from Nice Christian Estrosi, the designer Johan Sfar and the chief rabbi of France Haïm Korsia.
We also find Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne, Bernard Cazeneuve and Manuel Valls.
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“At the dawn of the next European elections, and because the democratic stakes are major – well beyond the fate of the Jews – we are calling on Republican candidates to get involved.
Without detour and without complacency.
For an incompressible and essential common minimum.
Whoever saves a life, whatever it may be, saves all of humanity,” write the signatories.
“Against anti-Semitism in all its forms”
They highlight the unprecedented increase in anti-Semitic acts recorded in France since October 7, the date of the bloody attack by Hamas in Israel which, in retaliation, declared a war to "annihilate" Hamas, relentlessly shelling the Gaza strip.
According to a report from the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), anti-Semitic acts increased by 1,000% between October 7 and the end of 2023.
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“We don’t ask for anything more than others.
But nothing less either.
Just a common non-negotiable minimum.
Against anti-Semitism in all its forms.
Against hatred.
Against xenophobia.
So that loneliness changes sides,” adds the forum.
“We refuse to pay the heaviest price of a fractured society in search of a common enemy to unite,” say the signatories.