2023-11-08 11:08:31
The President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, and the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, during the ceremonies marking the 78th anniversary of the victory against the Nazis and the end of the Second World War in Europe, in Paris, May 8, 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
“The Republic is in danger. » It is with these serious words that the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and her counterpart in the Senate, Gérard Larcher, call, in a column posted online Tuesday, November 7 on the website of Figaroat a big march on Sunday against anti-Semitism.
One month, to the day, after the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel which led to a response from the Jewish state, representatives of Parliament implicitly admit the importation of the conflict onto French soil. In four weeks, write the presidents of the two Chambers, “more than 1,000 incidents were recorded, twice as many as in the entire year of 2022. This translates on our soil into insults, threats and violence against our compatriots of the Jewish faith. Fear sets in and even risks becoming commonplace if we do not react”. “More than a start, more than words: general mobilization is essential”, they continue, calling “all republicans” to gather together.
This plea for an awakening of consciences was decided during a lunch between Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher, Monday November 6, at the Hôtel de Lassay, both showing themselves to be deeply shocked by the outbreak of acts reminiscent of the darkest hours in history.
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No contact was made with the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure who, two days earlier, had launched on Radio J a call “to all political forces” for a rally against anti-Semitism, without specifying a date. Very quickly the controversy grew on the left, with Olivier Faure not having initially closed the door to participation by the National Rally (RN).
Hatred and political tactics
The initiative of Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher – guests on TF1’s “8 p.m.” on Wednesday – delights the president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), Yonathan Arfi. “Symbolically, it was important that the call came from institutions of the Republic. The fight against anti-Semitism serves as a Republican marker »he observes, near the Monde, saying he dreams of a massive mobilization. A human tide like that of May 14, 1990 when 200,000 French people, including President François Mitterrand, marched in Paris after the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Carpentras (Vaucluse)? Or like that of January 11, 2015, after the attacks against Charlie Hedbo and the hostage-taking at Hyper Cacher, where more than 1 million people rose up against the barbarity of terrorism, bringing together socialist President François Hollande, his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, but also the head of the Palestinian Authority , Mahmoud Abbas, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanayhou?
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