Everyone knows these magazine games, where you have to connect the dots together, one after the other, for a drawing to appear. Conscientiously, we move forward in the blur of curves, straight lines and straight lines, until a boat, a flower or a dinosaur takes on its shape and meaning. Because the points were arranged on purpose.
Here are five.
Point one. Sunday June 20, 2021, during the political interview on France Inter, Jean-Luc Mélenchon declared: “You will see that in the last week of the presidential campaign, we will have a serious incident, or a murder. It was Merah in 2012: we will have a very serious event, which will once again make it possible to point the finger at Muslims and invent a civil war. It’s all nonsense.” Boat ? Boat. A terrorist attack which killed three soldiers in uniform, and four Jews, including three children at gunpoint, because they were Jews… Nothing but banal! According to Mélenchon, it was only an “event” exploited by a conspiracy of the system. The Islamists can only applaud. It is their very matrix.
Point two. October 21, 2021. The same Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on the set of BFMTVspoke of the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour in these terms: “He reproduces a lot of cultural scenarios: we don’t change anything about tradition, we horrify creolization… All these are traditions which are very much linked to Judaism. “
Point three. June 4, 2022. Two rebellious legislative candidates appear all smiles on their Twitter account with Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labor Party who came to give them his support. Under his rule, complacency towards anti-Semitism in Labor was so strong that an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission concluded that the party had unlawfully discriminated against some of its members. because they were Jewish.
Point four. On August 26, 2023, the rapper Médine was received and acclaimed at the summer universities of La France insoumise. Two weeks earlier, he made a pun on essayist Rachel Kahn’s last name, talking about ResKHANpée. A play on words which would undoubtedly have made Jean-Marie Le Pen laugh, from the time when he himself indulged in the genre, with “Durafour crematoire”. Whatever. The Insoumis said they were “honored” to receive the rapper. Mélenchon even declared: “the victim of racism is him”.
Point five of course from last weekend. In front of the images of women – sometimes dead – displayed to be spat on, in front of the images of children taken from their parents, humiliated, harassed, in front of the images of young “ravers” fleeing the indiscriminate bursts which killed 250 people Between them, the vast majority of LFI executives turned a blind eye. Describing these terrorist acts as “attacks by Palestinian forces”, which would only have avenged the injustices perpetrated by a colonizing state. The images are, however, universally obvious: what is seen there, what is read there, is not Palestine will live. But the Jews will die. What is seen there, what is read there, is the difference between war and terrorism. The difference between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism.
Oh. But as always, La France insoumise will recriminate. “How can we imagine that we are anti-Semitic, or complacent with anti-Semitism? Us? Never! We are the left, we are good.”
I only believe what I see. I connect the dots, and I see a frightening design. Those who don’t see it just don’t want to see it.