Faced with the controversial positions of La France Insoumise on the terrorist attack suffered by Israel, dissonant voices have been multiplying in recent hours on the left. The latter are all the more relevant as they come from leading personalities, who are or have been in the public debate. The day after the interview with LFI MP François Ruffin in Le Monde, in which he mocked the majority position of his party which is not “up to the seriousness of events”, it is Yannick Jadot’s turn to bring out the claws.
In an interview with HuffingtonPost, the brand new senator EELV from Paris hits hard on the LFI press release, published on Saturday, which did not firmly condemn the crimes of Hamas. For the former presidential candidate, this text is “unacceptable”. While the Insoumis had almost put Israeli policy back to back with the aggression perpetrated by the Islamist organization, which would embody a kind of resistance, Yannick Jadot dissociates himself from the Insoumis.
“Considering that Hamas could be a legitimate form of Palestinian resistance is a political mistake, which disqualifies them from the debate,” scoffed the former Greenpeace activist. And the charge doesn’t stop there. The tenors of La France Insoumise having prevaricated on the disapproval of Hamas and displayed their ambiguities on its terrorist qualification, the ecologist sees a “denial of reality” in the “contestation of the Islamist and terrorist character of this organization”.
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“Considering that Hamas could be a Palestinian armed force in the service of the Palestinian people is a perverse diversion of History and reality,” then insisted Yannick Jadot, who had already been suspicious in the spring of 2022 about the direction that took Nupes, too focused, according to him, on the positions of La France Insoumise. And to confirm his disagreement with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who “too often asks himself the question of knowing with whom he is not aligned, instead of the values”.
If “in the circumstances, we are not safe from a form of electoralism” within LFI, the former Elysian pretender believes “above all in a profound error of analysis on the way of defending the people Palestinian.” This is one of the reasons why Yannick Jadot calls for “going beyond the framework of NUPES as it exists today because it is obsolete.” Especially since the senator is not isolated in the environmentalist family. In a press release released on Wednesday, Generation Ecology, the party of which Delphine Batho is the national coordinator, evokes “a point of no return and a break with democracy and humanism”, which must “lead to immediate political clarification.” “No political or electoral alliance is possible with someone who has crossed the red line separating democracy from the most barbaric totalitarianism.”
