Several representatives of the Jewish community and the Minister of the Interior were outraged on Monday, September 15 after a message about X of the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure in relation to the recognition of the Palestinian State for France, scheduled for September 22.
After calling to exhibit the Palestinian flag in the municipalities that day, Olivier Faure responded to a surfer, the former Israeli army spokesman Julien Bahloul, who pointed out that this year also corresponded this year to Roch Hachana, the Jewish New Year: “While you think you cannot celebrate the new year and the year 1 of year 1 and hate and hate.”
“Sow blindness”
“Believing that we must choose between celebrating Hach Hachana and waiting for a Palestinian state confusing the religious calendar and the geopolitical conflict. Opposing the two is to sow blindness, no peace,” said the great rabbi of France Haïm Korsia.
The president of the Central Consistory Elie Korchia denounced “a shameless example of the essentialization of the Jews and this hatred of Israel that becomes before our eyes anti -Semitism.”
“What do the members of the Socialist Party expect to denounce the bumps of their first secretary?” Ariel Goldmann, president of the Unified Jewish Social Fund (FSJU) asked. Already on Sunday night, the president of the representative of Jewish institutions in France (CRIF), Yonathan Arfi, had denounced a “demagogic and client tender.”
“A red line is crossed”
“It’s enough. A red line is crossed,” said Philippe Meyer on Monday, the president of France from the NGO B’Nai B’rith, for whom “apologies are essential.” The “We will live” association, created after October 7, 2023, accused the socialist official of “Participation (R) in the trivialization of anti-Semitism”, while Anne-Sophie Sebban-Bécache, Vice President Europe of the American Jewish Committee, denounced “Odious.”
On Monday morning, Olivier Faure explained in X that the “you” of his dispute message “is aimed at the only one” Internet user to whom he responded. “At the intention of non -healthy you are trivialized anti -Semitism, which in my eyes is serious,” he added.
“I remind Mr. Olivier Faure that administrative justice has recently ordered, and on several occasions, the withdrawal of the Palestinian flags of the Fronton of the Town Halls, with the argument that they were seriously involved in the principle of neutrality of public services,” the Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau reacted on Monday.
“There are enough subjects of division in the country so as not to import the conflict of the Middle East,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
