France is the country with the largest Jewish diaspora in Europe, and yet it is also the country with one of the largest anti-Semitic cultures, regularly propagated for decades by left-wing elites in particular. We need only refer to the precursor and leader of the anti-militarist and popular left, Jean Jaurès, who in his Tivoli speech in 1898 emphasized the relationship between Jews and money, describing Jews as “devoured by a kind of fever for gain” and knowing how to “handle with particular skill the capitalist mechanism, a mechanism of rapine, lies, corsets and extortion”. Such words and ideas, coming from a leader of his time, have survived the decades, can be found in the discourse of the anti-capitalist and populist left, and are taken up by today’s elites, notably Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The alliance between left-wing anti-capitalism and Muslim communitarianism has enabled anti-Semitism to flourish for several years now and to become increasingly popular among the electorate of this movement. The COVID-19 crisis, the war in Ukraine and the events in Israel and Gaza have caused an explosion in anti-Semitic acts.
The situation is similar in the UK, Europe’s other main Jewish host country after France. The former leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, Britain’s second largest political party, is an outspoken anti-Semite in a number of actions and statements. In 2009, he invited representatives of Hamas and Hezbollah to attend a British parliamentary meeting, calling them his friends. In 2013, he criticized his fellow citizens of the Jewish faith, saying they didn’t understand the English irony, even though they had always lived in the UK. In 2014, he took part in a commemoration in Tunisia and saluted the memory of the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
In the United States, “freedom of speech” allows for verbal abuse, with politicians like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar making virulent, even anti-Semitic comments against Israel and the Jewish community. These comments
are echoed by apolitical figures who, encouraged by this political trend, come out of the woodwork and openly advocate anti-Semitism. In the UK, for example, rapper Wiley declared in early July that “people have never wanted to challenge Jews and the Ku Klux Klan”. Wiley likens the Ku Klux Klan to rednecks, and the Jews to lawmakers who “don’t give a damn what black people have been through. They just use us (blacks) to make money”.
This anti-Semitic onslaught in rap circles can be seen in Nick Cannon’s statements in June with his guest on the Cannon’s class podcast that the Jews control the media and the world, illustrating his point by citing the Rothschild family. It’s worth recalling the anti-Semitic comments made by Kanye West and Kyrie Irving and the recent remarks of Susan Sarandon, the singer Angele and the controversial climate change activist who, with the events in Gaza, has become pro-Hamas.
So, with these declarations across the Atlantic, across the Channel, and in France, and the political support and silence, the anti-Semitic breeding ground can flourish. No amount of apologies or regrets in the face of the controversy that has arisen can reverse the trend. These statements are designed to steadily and gradually inseminate anti-Semitism into people’s minds, and denials can no longer reverse the groundswell that has been created. Their authors are well aware of this and know that the message will carry all the more if it is distilled during a period of doubt and fear, such as the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, inflation and the economic crisis, and above all the latest events in Israel.
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I accuse Brazilian President Lula of having uttered extremely dangerous words, equating the Hamas attack with Israel’s response. The president of Latin America’s largest country considers Israel’s response to be “as serious” as the attacks by Hamas terrorists on the Hebrew state. “After Hamas’s acts of terrorism, the consequences, Israel’s solution has turned out to be just as serious as Hamas’s. They are killing innocent people without any hesitation. They kill innocent people without any criteria”.
President Lula continues, declaring that “bombs should be dropped where there are children, such as on hospitals, on the pretext that terrorists might be there”. “It’s inexplicable. First of all, you have to save the women and children, then you fight with whoever you want.
With these statements, he is endangering Brazil’s 120,000-strong Jewish community, because pro hamas supporters are taking to the streets and threatening the Jewish community.
Two people suspected of preparing anti-Semitic “terrorist attacks” have been arrested in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
The figures in Brazil are glaringly obvious: before the conflict began on October 7, the daily average of mentions of anti-Semitism was between 200 and 300. After the Hamas attack, it increased. It has not dropped below 8,000. These figures include all public and private expressions of anti-Semitism, including
anti-Zionist statements.
President Lula has no problems throwing his Jewish citizens to violent anti-Semites, mainly of Muslim origin, whose community is growing rapidly, numbering over 2 million by 2023.
His political calculation is easy to make, but it’s not the only thing that makes President Lula attack Israel so virulently.
Brazil’s economic interests are closer to Qatar’s billions than to Israel’s technologies.
technologies. Electoral campaigns are paid for with money, not with patents.
Mr. President Lula, shame on you and your unacceptable remarks embracing lies and dismissing the truth.
Shame on you for not mentioning the Jewish hostages, and prisoners of the Palestinian terrorist group hamas. Not even once.
History will remember and you will be judged as all the ones before you.
I accuse the French president, Emmanuel Macron, of having made very controversial remarks urging an end to the bombing of Gaza. He declared “the bombardments that are killing civilians.” and added “There is no justification” for these bombardments. “This is extremely important for all of us, because of our principles, because we are democracies. It is important, in the medium and long term, as well as for the security of Israel itself, to recognize that all lives matter.”
These are words that could have been spoken by the French politician Edouard Daladier in Munich in 1938 who wrongly thought that a peace agreement with Hitler could be achieved. In politics, those who win and stand strong are courageous men worthy to be remembered. Cowards who think about their political future cower and crumble.
Mr. President Macron, your citizens of Jewish origin are suffering in France because of your policies and your words. You sold French Jews to the horde of Muslim barbarians who attack every day in France. The numbers for antisemitic acts since October 7, 2023, have been four times more in one month than in the last year. These are very worrying figures, and you’re adding fuel to the fire. In 2022, you were re-elected and are still, as such, France’s fire chief, but with your latest remarks on Israel, you’ve become the chief arsonist.
A great president of a democracy like France must be a great leader who governs his country and not a grocer who calculates the number of votes for the next elections. Beyond these electoral arrangements,
you’re afraid of a Muslim revolt in France.
I accuse you of abandoning the French Jews to protect France and the French people, but you should know that, after the Jews, the Muslims will come after the French.
Muslims will come after the French Christians or seculars. You’re afraid of the suburbs, of their reaction, and that’s understandable, fear is a feeling like any other, but you should know, Mr. President Macron, that fear has the power to paralyze both the Jews and the French, and the Jews of France want to be led by a brave man who will go to the front to defend his country and its values. Defending the Jews of France could have been an honor for you and you would have gone down in history.
Instead, you’re going out the back door and everyone will forget you. History doesn’t like cowards.
I accuse the dictator Putin of having an anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish policy, worthy of the greatest Tsars of Russia.
Mr. Dictator, this Russia is finished, it can’t even beat Ukraine. Mr. Dictator, how dare you accuse Israel of bombing Gaza, when you’ve declared war on a brother country by surprise, constantly bombing Ukrainian civilians, with over 100,000 dead, not to mention your exactions with your army of
mercenaries, who kill and rape. Shame on you. In Chechnya, Mr. Putin, your army has murdered over 300,000 Chechen civilians.
Mr. Putin, before talking about Gaza, please clean up your own house.
I accuse feminists around the world like Beyoncé, Stacey Abrams, Taylor Swift, Aisha Nyandoro, Rokhaya Diallo, Adèle Haenel, Céline Pina who have been silent about the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel by Palestinian hamas terrorists. Not a word for all the Jewish women murdered, raped, amputated and martyred by these barbarians. No demonstration of support for all those Jewish women raped and killed, for all those hostages
in Gaza, probably raped every day, living in horrible conditions. I accuse you of not having a human thought for all these women who have been killed and kidnapped, for not having had a feminine solidarity for them. Does the METOO movement apply to all women unless they are Jewish and Israeli? For a Jew, no compassion. Shame on you, shame on your behaviour and attitude. Before October 7, you were feminists, after October 7, 2023, you became anti-Semites.
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez
I accuse Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, of behaving like an ally to Palestinian terrorists following his outrageous remarks about Israelis
and Jews, accusing them of intentionally killing Palestinians and putting hamas and the Israeli army on the same side. Shame on you, you’re acting in bad faith, you Spanish Prime Minister, whose ancestors have Jewish blood on their hands.
Let me remind you of the Spanish Inquisition by Isabella the Catholic. In 1492, Spain killed tens of thousands of her Jewish citizens and sent them into exile, notably to the large Caribbean islands and Cuba, where most of them died from diseases of the newly-discovered islands. Spain had the largest Jewish community in the world and they massacred them, burned them, forcibly converted them, or sent them back without their possessions.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, you’ve missed a good opportunity to make up for all this suffering your ancestors have caused. You could have buried this antisemitism so it could never show its ugly face again but instead, you chose otherwise. Spain, with its criminal past against the Jews, has the right and the duty to keep quiet.
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I blame the UN and all its variants, Unesco, Unicef, and other anti-Semitic machinations. I accuse its Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres, of systematically condemning Israel, accusing them of all the evils of the earth.
This “machin”, as General de Gaulle called it, has become a tool of accusation against Israel and the Jews in the world. The UN is at the service of Muslim nations, some of which, like Qatar, pay handsomely for its services.
countries that support Arab interests around the world, the main target being “Israel”.
This country, Israel, was created by the UN in 1948, with the secret hope that it would disappear as quickly as it was born.
Unfortunately, the course of history proved all those machievelis of UN history wrong, and Israel, against all expectations, won the war against the nations of the world. Israel won time and time again against nations who far outnumbered them and were better equipped.
Your plans were thwarted and since that day, the UN has never stopped condemning Israel. Shame on the UN for constantly attacking the Jewish people, who represent 0.0015% of the population and receive 90% of the UN’s condemnations. Shame on you, nations of the world.
I accuse all the governments of the world who, since October 8, have accepted the pro-Hamas demonstrations, violent and antisemitic through and through.
Antisemitic acts have dramatically increased and no one does anything. No country in the world can have the courage to stand up and condemn it. No. That would take brave men to do so. I accuse the BBC of believing Hamas death count, believing a terrorist organization over actually verifying facts.
I accuse the BBC of behaving like a hamas terrorist propaganda channel, even if you have apologized, your behaviour is inexcusable.
My advice to all the world’s governments is to ask your respective people to take to the streets, to demand the release of the Jewish hostages in Gaza, to demonstrate for the Uighurs in China, for the Ukrainians killed by the Russians, and to demand the release of the Jews.
March for Ukrainians killed by the Russians, for the poor Tibetans, martyrized and killed every day by the Chinese; you must demonstrate
for the poor Haitians who die every day and for whom the UN takes no notice. We must demonstrate for the poor Arabs in Libya, whose people are dying every day. Go and demonstrate in front of the embassies of Jordan, whose Queen is of Palestinian origin and who does nothing for her people, her country, and her country.
If she truly cared she could open her borders and welcome them. Go and demonstrate in front of Egyptian embassies, asking them to open their border with Gaza and welcome them home.
Israel and the Jewish people only want peace, so let them live in peace.
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