« Anti -Semitic media », « radical Islam » … with Bardella, the extreme rights celebrate their common obsessions in Israel – Liberation
At 1 p.m., several alarms sound in the streets of Jerusalem. In front of the Bunyaney Ha’uma international conventions center, visitors stick to the nearest wall, looking for eyes, in the sky, the trace of one of the two missiles launched by Yemen this Thursday, March 27. The disturbing rumor of the projectiles is so appointed to feed the security obsession with a « Radical Islam » distilled throughout the afternoon by the speakers of a conference on organized anti-Semitism by the very right -handed Minister of the Diaspora Amichai Chikli.
Objective displayed of the event: to place the international far right as the main political defender of the Jewish people. Arno Klarsfeld, Franco-Israeli lawyer and ally of Marine Le Pen, will repeat it to the envy on stage: « The extreme right has become a party that promotes Jews. » Besides, she is no longer so « extreme », Still dares the lawyer, unlike his enemy, the rebellious France, which, according to him, would be the new face of French anti -Semitism. A discursive strategy whose cogs, well known in Franceseem to work with the few hundred Israelis registered at the conference.
Over the round tables are taking shape joint passions: « How has progressivism become captive of anti-Semitism », « How does radical Islam feed anti-Semitism in the West? » For the president of the national rally, Jordan Bardella, visiting in Israel since Tuesdaythe event is above all an opportunity to abandon with great pomp and in the Holy Land The bulky ghost of the National Frontcreated in part by former collaborators of Nazi Germany, and its founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, condemned for anti-Semitism and negationism.
Presented as a European leader in the making, Bardella goes on stage at 4.30 p.m., preceding a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. Back by two days of visit around the meeting places on October 7he drawn a parallel between the bloody assault of Hamas in 2023, claimed as an act of resistance to the Israeli occupation, and attacks by international terrorist organizations: « In the space of a few hours, Israel lived its September 11, 2001 and its Bataclan, in reference to this evening in November 2015 when French were decimated by tens », says the president of the RN. Hamas, Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, therefore put on an equal footing. All stored today by the extreme right under the banner of a « Radical Islamism ». But the mixture of genres does not stop there: the ideology of the organization in power in Gaza, advances Bardella, would be present on French soil. « You fight here, among others, Hamas. We fight, we, the presence of his ideas and his supports on the soil of France ”, he launches.
In his speech, no mention of the Palestinian people where more than 50,000 people killed According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. The day before, the European deputy had however been able to hear and see the strikes of the Israeli army in the enclave during his visit to the premises of the Rave-Party of the Tribe of Nova festival. Like Arno Klarsfeld, the leader the far right did not, on the other hand, not miss an opportunity to castigate the rebellious, denounced in France and elsewhere a « Moon of deadly between Islamism and the extreme left ».
Last black beast of the speakers: the media, « Lots of left -wing activists who hate excellence and hard work », Low with Verve Stefan Tompson, founder of Visegrad24, far -right media based in Warsaw. On both sides of the round table, we nod with approval. Gadi Taub, Israeli historian and writer sitting at the same table, takes the opportunity to tackle the newspaper Haaretz, for which he has written some editorials in the past before being dismissed. Largest daily newspaper in the country politically anchored on the leftit is nonetheless « Anti -Semitic », In the eyes of the ex-editorialist, echoing the introductory speech of Minister Amichai Chiklin, who accused journalists of journalists earlierHaaretz to write « lies » in the service of a « Anti -Zionist propaganda ».
Because here, no doubt is allowed: anti -Zionism and anti -Semitism are one. “Anti -Zionism, the rejection of the right to the existence of Israel, is new anti -Semitism. Its objective is the same: the destruction of the Jewish people ”, Abandoned Jordan Bardella, in his speech, including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the United Nations Human Rights Council in a fantasized and dedicated, on the international court of court in a fantasized and dedicated, « To deprive Israel of his ability to defend himself », he concludes. What to charm, no doubt, Benyamin Netanyahu, still referred to by an ICC arrest warrant For alleged war crimes in Gaza.
