In the middle of the European campaign, and just thirty years after the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, a debate is raging on the left on the use of the term “genocide” to refer to the massacres of the Palestinian population. On the one hand, the Insoumis, joined by the communists and ecologists, use it and claim it, and on the other, Raphaël Glucksmann refuses to do so and prefers to speak of
“
carnage
”
or
“
mass crimes
”
.
“
I use the term genocide extremely carefully ,
”
defended the essayist on TMC, who at the age of 24 made a documentary on the Rwandan genocide and was, by his own admission, marked for life by it. In return, Jean-Luc Mélenchon criticized him on France 3
for “
covering up the crime, euphemizing it, qualifying it
”
. He also accuses Raphaël Glucksmann of
“
dehumanizing the Palestinians
”
.
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