“Are Jews alien lizards? It would be insulting lizards”: this is one of the many anti-Semitic messages spread by the spokesperson and international coordinator of the French delegation of the Global Sumud Flotilla and discovered in an investigation published by our colleagues at Streetpress and Médiapart. Mustafa Cakici also published denialist and homophobic comments for years, before his exclusion on Thursday, October 16.
A speech that he already gave before his entry into the organization of the international maritime initiative. StreetPress examined Mustafa Cakici’s social media and discovered numerous posts from the French-speaking far-right, such as Action Française, Jeune Nation and Libre Penseur.
Other media outlets had dealt with the activist’s content before them, notably journalist Toufik from Planoise in 2024 in Bisontin’s independent outlet Le Ch’ni. The oldest publications, but also the first alerts about the anti-Semitic speech of the now former spokesperson, date from 2014.
Holocaust denial, LGBTphobia and anti-Semitism
“The invasion continues,” for example, Mustafa Cakici wrote on Facebook, sharing a 2019 article titled Grandes écoles: the Elysée accused of having organized a special competition for Jews. He wrote in 2014 that the Shoah was “voluntary victimization to sow terror.” He also assures that “there has never been an Armenian genocide.”
On Instagram, in 2024, he published a video to which the text “satanic rituals, in the tunnel under the synagogue, foreskins in abundance” was added. He also shares “how the Jewish lobby controls France”, or “how Rothschild got rid of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370”.
In 2014, he again shared an article about the “horror of gay pride and the degenerate LGBT lobby” and about the desire of “LGBT leaders” to “destroy the family”, a year after the legalization of same-sex marriage in France. “Our silence will open the door to these sick people,” writes Mustafa Cakici.
Conspiratorial statements are also part of the arsenal of messages detected in this investigation, in particular about the attack on Charlie Hebdo or the attack of October 7, which was actually “committed by Israel.”
“A certain number of truths”, according to Cakici
And, surprisingly, these comments are entirely assumed by the main interested party. “I have shared objective articles that tell a certain amount of truth, but I am not a fan of these sites,” he explained to our colleagues at StreetPress.
“I take responsibility for everything I have said and done until today. (…) In these publications I condemned Zionism.”
However, the coordinator of the French delegation of the flotilla did not want to explain precisely each of the messages discovered by our colleagues, particularly those that do not concern the Jewish community.
Regarding his position on the LGBT community, he adds: “when I hear violence against children, even reaching sexual violence, it affects my human dignity.”
Médiapart and Streetpress also reveal that, after the appointment of Mustafa Cakici as spokesperson for the Sumud Global Flotilla, several of these former collaborators and local activists alerted the association and LFI in a message that remained unanswered. Only this Thursday, at the request of StreetPress and Mediapart, the flotilla published a press release confirming the exclusion of Mustafa Cakici “with immediate effect.”
Source: BFM TV
