In the midst of a controversy over his visit to the summer universities of ecologists and rebels, the rapper Médine defended himself on Friday from the anti-Semitic nature of a pun published on social networks.
“No ambiguity. I attacked Rachel Khan’s career path. The unsuitable formula, which must certainly have offended people and I apologize for it, was not directed to his family or to the victims of the tragedy of the Shoah”, he posted on X (ex-Twitter ). The rapper committed to the left had described the Franco-Gambian artist and essayist Rachel Khan as a “resKHANpée”, namely a “person who has been thrown out of the Hip-Hop square, and literally puffs at the table of the far right. “. Message to which Rachel Khan, Jewish and granddaughter of a deportee, reacted on X with: “It’s all said…”, leading to a controversy over the anti-Semitic nature of the rapper’s remarks.
In the process, the singer had specified that he had made “no allusion to any origin or family history”. “Rachel Khan called me trash a few days ago. I did not shout Islamophobia or anti-Arab racism. The fight against anti-Semitism, against Islamophobia and all forms of discrimination deserve better than anathemas on Twitter,” he added Friday morning, still on X. This dispute arises in a context of controversy around the participation of Medina at the summer universities of the EELV and LFI parties. Target of elected officials and activists of the National Rally with whom he scraps on social networks, Medina is regularly accused by the latter of being an “Islamist”. The artist is also accused of homophobia and anti-Semitism in the light of certain interviews, songs, or past positions (photos performing the anti-Semitic gesture of the quenelle, text where he sings “Crucify the secularists as in Golgotha”) .
The Minister of Transport Clément Beaune, one of the representatives of the left wing of the macronie, on Friday asked La France insoumise (LFI) and Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EE-LV) to reconsider their invitations from the rapper Médine, again accused of anti-Semitism, during their next summer schools. “I will always fight the extreme right. You are precisely playing the game with this unworthy invitation, ”said Clément Beaune to LFI and the leader of the ecologist party Marine Tondelier. “It’s time to come to your senses,” added the minister on X, calling one of the rapper’s last messages “despicable”.
