Israel invites the French extreme right but oust a journalist of « humanity » – Liberation

« A hindrance to the freedom to inform », alerted the writing of humanity Monday March 24. His journalist, Emilio Meslet, hitherto accredited to the international conference against anti -Semitism in Jerusalem that organizes The government of Benyamin Netanyahuwill not be authorized ultimately to cover the event in Israel on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 March, he learned « At the last moment », deplore the communist daily, in an editorial published on his site.

Just a few days before his flight to Jerusalem, the great reporter for the political service of Human has been notified of the change of program by the Israeli Diaspora Affairs and the Fight against Anti -Semitism. «  »Your accreditation has been canceled. You are no longer authorized to participate in the conference against anti -Semitism ”, Simply received Emilio Meslet, without further justification on this flip-flop. « To our knowledge, this exclusion procedure orchestrated by Israeli authorities only concerns humanity« , underlines the newspaper.

If the Israeli government has closed the door to a French journalist, it, conversely, opened it for the first time to French political figures from the far right. Guests, Jordan Bardella, president of the national rally, Marion Maréchal, European deputy for the identity party Libertés, will go there. The first is the number one of the party inherited from Jean-Marie Le Pensentenced to having qualified the gas chambers as « detail » of the history of the Second World War. The second, her little girl.

In his editorial, humanity castigates the government of the Prime Minister, allied with the Israeli far right: “Anxious to strengthen its links with nationalists and reactionaries from all walks of life, Benyamin Netanyahu crossed the Rubicon. From now on, the heirs of collaboration, from the ranks of a party founded by former Nazis, are entitled to the honors of Tel Aviv in a terrifying inversion of values. ” The daily founded by Jean Jaurès also recalls being a « Journal of the anti -fascist struggle, always engaged against anti -Semitism and of which fifteen journalists and other workers died in the resistance or shot by the Nazis between 1941 and 1945. »

On Bluesky, the National Union of Journalists (SNJ), first French organization in the sectorsupported the press title and all of his journalists, while condemning this decision: « The Israeli government does not have to hinder the right to information. »

Benyamin Netanyahu and his cabinet are far from being at their first attack on press freedom. The center-left opposition newspaper, Haaretzfor example was directly threatened by the Minister of Communications in 2023, before the government officially decided to boycott this media in 2024. The NGO Reporters Without Borders also accuses the Army of the Hebrew State of being « Head of death » From 18 journalists last year, 16 in Gaza and two in Lebanon, while preventing the access of reporters to the Palestinian territory to cover the war in progress for almost a year and a half.