Monday, October 7, will mark the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel, which led to a bloody repression led by Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime in Gaza. Twelve months during which the position of La Francia Insumisa (LFI) on this conflict deeply divided the left.
A few days before the fateful date, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, once again, refrained from being moved by the fate of the Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas. On the contrary, on Friday, October 4, during a political meeting in Paris, the leader of the “rebels” asked, as of October 8, “Palestinian flags wherever we can.” Reaction to a circular from Patrick Hetzel, of the same day, in which the Minister of Higher Education warns university rectors about their responsibility in the “maintenance of order”, ahead of the anniversary of the Hamas attack.
condemning “firmly” pro-Palestinian demonstrations in recent days, particularly at Sciences Po Paris, Mr. Hetzel believes that “contrary to the principles of neutrality and secularity of the public higher education service”. “It is an abuse of powerprotested M. Mélenchon. I ask young students to rebel and not accept this ban. »
General disapproval
A new controversy. The latest in a long series on LFI over the past year. Beyond the geopolitical earthquake, the reaction of the “rebels” to the October 7 attacks marked a strategic change that transformed the cracks on the left into open wounds. That day, the Socialist Party (PS), the French Communist Party and environmentalists unambiguously condemned the “horrible attacks” of Hamas, described as “terrorists”. This is not the case of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who opts for “contextualize” the massacres perpetrated by the Islamists. “Violence only occurs and is reproduced”Comment on X.
Same tone in the press release immediately published by his movement, which evokes a “armed offensive by Palestinian forces led by Hamas” In “a context of intensification of the Israeli occupation policy in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem”. By giving the impression of relativizing the role of the Islamist group, the LFI provokes general disapproval that resonates throughout the political class, especially on the left. On October 17, 2023, the break was total: the PS closed the door of the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes).
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