Gilles-William Goldnadel is a lawyer and essayist. Every week, he deciphers the news for FigaroVox. He has just published
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The facts are serious as well as damning: the
Journal du Dimanche
confirmed, in an article published on March 21, that the deputy of France Insoumise, Thomas Portes, had seriously endangered the life of a young French Jew by falsely accusing.
Samuel O. was in fact forced to file a complaint because the Insoumis deputy, repeating the false assertions of a Palestinian journalist, had denounced him on X, accusing him of having tortured Hamas terrorists captured by the army Israeli.
However Samuel O. lives in the Lyon region, is French, has never been part of the IDF and last went - briefly - to Israel for a wedding in 2023...
Since Thomas Portes' untimely announcement, the life of Samuel O., now under protection, has been hell given the death threats and harassment he has suffered from Islamist circles.
The disappointed MP split on X a press release dated March 22 in which he announced, albeit a little late, that he had erased his extremely serious accusations.
The rest, in an attempt to keep face, limit themselves to continuing the trial of Israel.
I report these facts for two reasons.
The first lies in the fact that despite the seriousness of the circumstances reported and widely commented on on social networks, few media outlets reported on them.
I therefore make my contribution to informing the public.
The second reason is, in my eyes, infinitely more compelling.
The fault of the France Insoumise deputy owes nothing to chance.
It is part of a hateful process in which he was carried away and by which he could only, in his momentum, make mistakes.
Thomas Portes is in fact part of the most determined battalion of members of a far-left political organization whose weaknesses for the terrorist Hamas no longer need to be documented.
French Jews in general and Samuel O. in particular are the collateral victims of this obsessive hatred of the Hebrew State.
I have already written that electoral ulterior motives prevent neither an anti-Semitic thought nor a “racizing” anti-Western inclination.
La France Insoumise, in recent days, will have indeed crossed a semantic gap without ambiguity or major moral or political obstructions.
The shameless use of the term “genocide” to apply it to the response of the Israeli army against Hamas in Gaza proves this.
Convincing Israel of genocide means putting the Anglo-Americans in front of Nuremberg a posteriori for their infinitely more murderous bombings of Hitler's German cities.
Gilles-William Goldnadel
We would like not to take the author of these lines for a naive person.
He is not the worst placed to know that the propagandist phraseology of France Insoumise is not part of a rational and historical framework but an ideological and hysterical one.
In my
War Diary
, I wrote on Tuesday October 10:
“Israel responds with massive bombings on an urban area.
Like the allies in occupied France.
Gaza under siege
.
I intend to take a date here.
The great pogrom committed by the Islamo-Nazis is three days old and Israel's real response has not yet begun.
I am not giving three days for Israel to be Nazified and the Palestinians painted as “genocided” martyrs.
Here we are.
And among all the painters that I considered to paint the Jewish soldier in the SS, I obviously placed France Insoumise in the first row of the gallery.
I knew only too well the pleasure she would derive from accusing the ghetto state of genocide.
But for the good faith victims - innumerable - of this fantastical propaganda, I cannot do without the arguments of reason, even though it costs me.
However, before that, a last word from the heart.
Before saying why daring to label the warlike response of the massacred as genocide amounts to ignominy, I would like to write how deeply and sincerely I am saddened by the many innocent victims of Gaza.
Because to paraphrase Barbara, the children are the same, in Gaza or in Beriz, in Göttingen or in Paris...
I come back to reason.
Convincing Israel of genocide means putting the Anglo-Americans in front of Nuremberg a posteriori for their infinitely more murderous bombings of Hitler's German cities.
It is still, much closer to home, accusing the allies of genocide for having destroyed during the war against the Islamic State 65% of the buildings in Mosul while those in Gaza were 35%, according to Professor John Spencer working at West Point.
Without daring to mention Grozny, a city completely razed... We will excuse this macabre calculation in a deleterious context where the figures given by a terrorist organization, no longer even having an administration capable of cross-checking, are considered by many, including public broadcasting...
The Insoumis, like Thomas Portes, and their Wokist or Islamist followers hate Israel in the East because they hardly like Western French.
Gilles-William Goldnadel
I will also not mention the difference in treatment in space regarding the risk of famine.
We talk about it incessantly regarding Gaza.
Four days ago, Arab intellectual Amjad Taha wrote that the UN warned of a risk of fatal famine for 222,000 children in Sudan.
He blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for the situation and was surprised by the deafening silence, comparing it to the noise in Gaza.
To accuse Israel of genocide - sorry to speak as a lawyer, but here, as often, the law meets morality - is to forget the absence of any intentionality.
This is the reason why the International Court of Justice in The Hague, seized by South Africa, to the great dismay of France Insoumise, did not dare to condemn Israel.
It is so true that Israel has never wanted - voluntarily - to touch the slightest hair of a single child in Gaza.
Children cynically used as shields by Hamas.
I would like to end this column with the ideological explanation that I delivered in my
War Diary
, this October 10, to announce the pyre of the genocide which could only be erected: “
The explanation is not just political or media.
It is not based only on the immensity of the Number and the enormity of the Money against the unique and the very small.
On the far-left press still in majesty, which shows a sharp critical spirit for the One and a guilty indulgence for the Other.
On the pseudo-humanitarian relays, all acquired by Palestine, from Amnesty International to MSF via the WHO.
On the fearful and obsequious reverence for the immense sea of the Arab street in its holy anger.
There is all this and classic anti-Semitism
.
There is, however, an unconscious and psychiatric explanation which contains them, but also goes beyond them: Jews are white people squared.
Who defend themselves tooth and nail.
Before we finish off the dying old white male, let us put down the still living young Western stallion.
The Insoumis, like Thomas Portes, and their Wokist or Islamist followers hate Israel in the East because they hardly like Western French, whether his name is Samuel or his name is Pierre.