What if we finally listen to Jean-Luc Mélenchon? “Consider what I say, because in my opinion, I know how to speak on my own,” he initiated on March 13 on France Inter. We did it. We read it and tried to understand. Without a priori.
What we see beforehand is that rebellious France cannot be anti -Semitic. It is a starting postulate. Because rebellious France is on the left. “Please let us go. We have nothing to do with racism, and on March 22, moreover, we are manifesting against racism,” he said on France Inter. Has anti -Semitism has largely passed over in silence, the very day of the aggression of the Rabbi Arié Engelberg in Orleans? What does it matter. The left of Mélenchon fights against all hatreds, it is an irrefutable starting point.
A “paralyzing radius”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon himself defined, on his blog, on August 16, 2015, this rhetorical process. He called it a “paralyzing radius”. That is to say an argument of authority “used to prohibit any debate”. Let us take the paralyzing radius for a moment and imagine that Jean-Luc Mélenchon is not immune to any anti-Semitype anti-Semity, for example, that of a force pulling the strings in the shadows. “Contrary to what the propaganda of officiality says, anti-Semitism remains residual in France”, writes Mélenchon on his blog on June 2, 2024. Who would be necessary to see behind this “propaganda of the officality”? In 2024, anti -Semitic attacks represented 57 % of all racist and anti -religious aggressions in France.
On April 29, 2024, on the La Insubession site, he violently attacks PS deputy Jérôme Guedj, his “left Judaism” denied, his “fanatic medium” and “the leash of his memberships”. But who holds the leash? If Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not represent an unsuspected left, we would also wonder about the remarks made on Eric Zemmour, October 21, 2021, on BFMTV. “It reproduces a lot of cultural scenarios: we do not change anything in tradition, we have the horror creolization … All this, these are traditions which are much linked to Judaism”, he said. We would even wonder what he wanted to say by denouncing the “arrogant oukases of the CRIF communitarianists”, on December 13, 2019. Who is arrogant if not a domineering people? But maybe we’re going to get too far away. On July 16, 2023, Jean-Luc Mélenchon gave the answer. CRIF is “the extreme right”. In the matter, the man on the left knows a radius.