Shh, Jean-Luc Mélenchon creates. For several weeks, he has been entirely dedicated to the careful creation of a new concept for which no one has yet found a name. Tuesday, November 7, here he refines his work in a tweet: “Sunday demonstration of the “republican arc” of the RN to the macronie of Braun-Pivet. And under the pretext of anti-Semitism, brings back Israel-Palestine without demanding a cease-fire -fire. Friends of unconditional support for the massacre have their meeting.” The President of the National Assembly thus cited, the only political figure cited, and these astonishing words: “under the pretext of anti-Semitism”. Three words to cast doubt on the reality of evil. Does anti-Semitism exist? An invention to express support for Netanyahu, to justify the massacre in Gaza, a political maneuver therefore, Mélenchon seems to suggest. This November 7, the new Mélenchonian thought was finalized: insinuational anti-Semitism. “Anti-Zionism gives permission to be democratically anti-Semitic,” wrote Vladimir Jankélévitch. The words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, third man in the last presidential election who became an engineer of chaos, too.
Insinuating anti-Semitism is practical in that it does not expose those who wield it to opprobrium. “No, Mélenchon is not anti-Semitic,” former President François Hollande assured us recently, although he was rarely tender with his former traveling companion. And to justify this assertion, he uses the absence of a judicial conviction of the rebellious leader. Ideal argument, also used as a shield by LFI deputy Manuel Bompard to reject the accusations against his party. How sweet it is to do politics alongside an intelligent man like Mélenchon. Who handles language and excess with so much precision that he can blandly declare: “It is not within my means to be anti-Semitic.”
What skill. Shouting “I am the sound and the fury, the tumult and the crash”, and thereby pretending to be this hyperbolic ogre who abandons moderation, prefers anger and excesses. So, everyone watches on their lips for terrible words, those which are sure to bring condemnation, words which dishonor and which impose public sanction. But these words do not come because Jean-Luc Mélenchon is above all agility and cunning. “He goes too far,” his detractors are content to say weakly. What counter-power, what subtle spirit to denounce, to evade this anti-Semitism of insinuation?
In his camp, a fine maneuverer, he muzzled any form of opposition, the deputy Raquel Garrido paid to see, suspended for 4 months for having expressed criticism. Yet that’s where the blow should come from. Manuel Valls, Bernard Cazeneuve and the others will always be able to shout, they will never have the ear of Mélenchon’s supporters. François Ruffin regretted in a tweet “the arbitrariness and bureaucracy” within the LFI parliamentary group. The denunciation of anti-Semitism in his camp deserves the same boldness.