“Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Eric Zemmour multiply the polemics on the back of the Jews. As for Marine Le Pen, his dedicolization attempts do not deceive anyone,” said Francis Kalifat, the President of the Representative Council of the Jewish Institutions of France .
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It was two years since the annual dinner of the representative Council of the Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) could not take place because of the health crisis. Renourishing with the tradition of this meeting (it was its 36 edition) between politicians and personalities of the Jewish community, Thursday, February 24, the organizers had to compose with a complex situation. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the very morning, deprived them of Emmanuel Macron, who held in Brussels, dispatched his prime minister, Jean Castex, to read the speech he had prepared.
It is with a slight accent of the Southwest that the President of the Republic, not yet officially candidate, was able to assure his guests that “in the months and years to come” they could always “count on [him] “. Three declared candidates, Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot and Valérie Pécresse, were present to hear this commitment. Three others – Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Eric Zemmour – had not been invited because they represented, in the eyes of CRIF leaders, “extreme parties”. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Eric Zemmour multiply the polemics on the back of the Jews. (…) As for Marine Le Pen, his dedicolization attempts do not deceive anyone,” said Francis Kalifat, the President of the CRIF, before announcing: “In the coming election, I will call to brading all the candidates of extreme left and extreme right.”
The representative of the executive began with a word about the military operation of Russia: “We all have the meaning of history and know what were the long efforts that allowed our continent During these seventy years a balance based on the values of peace, freedom of the peoples and sovereignty of the States. We will have to be united and determined to defend this fundamental achievement. “
The government was mostly expected on how to stop the rise of anti-Semitism, which is increasingly worried about the representatives of the Jewish community. In his last speech, Francis Kalifat brushed a very dark picture of the situation. “73% of all anti-religious acts aim for Jews”, which count for 1% of the population, he recalled. He noted that anti-Semitism was hitting today “anywhere, without shouting station”, and obsessively on social networks, where hatreds are unleashed in “a disgusting mixture of complocistic stereotypes, insults of character. sexual, hate of Jews and Israel, denial of the shoah and amalgam with Nazism “. The health crisis “aggravated our situation,” he insisted.
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