Early this morning, Israel was rocked by a brutal and unexpected Hamas attack on its territory, which is still ongoing. When we woke up, the whole world was able to see, through countless videos circulating on social networks, the horror of the ongoing fighting. Very quickly, reactions from the political class poured in. In French, English and Hebrew, President Emmanuel Macron “strongly condemned the terrorist attacks” and assured Israel of France’s support.
On X (formerly Twitter), Marine Le Pen recalled that “terrorism cannot be tolerated” and that she stood “more than ever on the side of Israeli democracy”. Republican President Éric Ciotti provided his “total support for Israel” and considered that “France’s duty is to be more strongly alongside the Jewish state.” For his part, Éric Zemmour (Reconquest) sent his “thoughts and support to the Israeli people who are still suffering jihad on their soil”.
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If the overwhelming majority of political leaders from all sides were moved by Hamas’ aggression, La France Insoumise, on the other hand, stood out by partly justifying it. In a press release published on X, the far-left party therefore chose not to condemn. He even believes that “the armed offensive by Palestinian forces led by Hamas comes in a context of intensification of the Israeli occupation policy in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem”, thus placing the blame on the Hebrew State. . And taking care not to specify that Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by many countries.
Same register for the LFI deputy Louis Boyard, who does not condemn and regrets that “France turns a blind eye to colonization and abuses in Palestine” and that it “returns back to back the violence of the Israeli State and that of Palestinian armed groups.
No condemnation either from Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who deplores “the violence unleashed against Israel and in Gaza”, thus putting the Hamas terrorist attack and the Israeli response on the same level.
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These statements aroused the anger of elected socialists, allies of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party within Nupes. “Jews are always responsible for what happens to them. It is a constant in anti-Semitic discourse,” responded PS senator Laurence Rossignol to Louis Boyard.
“To the useful idiots of Hamas terrorists who exonerate them by putting things into perspective in the name of the political impasse of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the continuation of colonization, Netanyahu… you disgust me. That we find them on the left is unbearable,” said socialist deputy Jérôme Guedj.
The president of the Court of Auditors and former socialist minister Pierre Moscovici came out of his reserve to judge the positioning of LFI “as shocking as it is desperate”.
The LFI deputy François Ruffin was less ambiguous than his colleagues. “Total condemnation of the Hamas attack,” he wrote on X, saying he feared the “response of the most brutal Israeli government in 30 years.” An observation “shared” by his colleague Alexis Corbière.
Elsewhere on the left, the national secretary of Europe Ecology Les Verts Marine Tondelier expressed her “immense fear at the horror of the attacks”, but called on Israel not to have “an indiscriminate reaction towards the civilians of Gaza”.
More direct, the national secretary of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel expressed his “unreserved condemnation of the Hamas attack” which he considers “unacceptable and unjustifiable”.