2023-10-20 15:09:18
The controversy never ends. This time, it was certain LFI elected officials who accused Charlie Hebdo of “racism and anti-Semitism”. In question, a drawing from the satirical newspaper showing the LFI deputy of Paris Danièle Obono alongside Israeli hostages. “Gaza/Israel: Peace is possible!” France exchanges Obono for Israeli hostages,” it is written alongside the drawing.
Among them, the head of LFI deputies Mathilde Panot. “To puke!” The Charlie Hebdo cartoon plays up to the blessed times of the colonies, and quietly signals the return of racist and anti-Semitic caricatures,” she wrote on X (formerly Twitter) in response to the Charlie Hebdo post.
To throw up! The Charlie Hebdo cartoon plays the “blessed time of the colonies” and quietly signals the return of racist and anti-Semitic caricatures.
Perfect audience with Fdesouche who shares immediately.
Don’t we bother you, racists?My whole sorority to my…
— Mathilde Panot (@MathildePanot) October 19, 2023
Danièle Obono has been at the heart of a controversy since Monday. Invited on Sud Radio, she refused to qualify Hamas – the organization in power in the Gaza Strip and author of the attack on Israeli soil on October 7 – as terrorist. She then spoke of an “Islamist political group”, “which resists an occupation”. In reaction, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced that he would contact “the public prosecutor for advocating terrorism”.
” Shame on you “
Mathilde Panot is not the only one to have come to support her colleague. The coordinator of France Insoumise and Marseille MP Manuel Bompard denounced in a message about a shame “. “Racism and anti-Semitism in the same drawing,” he wrote. “Shame on you for this horrible racist and anti-Semitic caricature!!! It’s worthy of the worst far-right rags! », clutched always on LFI MP for Val-de-Marne Rachel Keke.
“My colleague Danièle Obono is once again targeted after the intolerable caricature of Current Values,” noted LFI MEP Manon Aubry. In August 2020, the far-right weekly magazine represented Danièle Obono as a slave during a seven-page story entitled “Obono the African” recounting in particular her birth in Gabon. Valeurs Actuelles was sentenced on appeal in November 2022 to a suspended fine of 1,000 euros for “racist insult”. “Charlie Hebdo does Current Values,” supported the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Thomas Portes.
La France insoumise refuses as a whole to qualify Hamas as a terrorist group, after the October 7 attack in Israel, provoking dissension even within the left-wing Nupes alliance. Party executives like Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Mathilde Panot have maintained this position on several occasions while demanding a “ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas. “Shame on LFI which brings back to back an attacked democracy and a murderous terrorist regime. This equating is in fact a legitimization of Hamas terrorism,” denounced the president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), Yonathan Arfi.
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