2024-01-28 23:06:40
Guest of the program “Political Questions” on France Inter, Yaël Braun-Pivet confided that she had filed 23 complaints for anti-Semitism herself and called for a “collective start”.
The President of the National Assembly reacted to a recent Crif report revealed by Le Parisien, identifying four times more anti-Semitic acts in 2023 compared to the previous year and an “explosion” after October 7, the date of the attacks on Hamas against Israel.
“They send me yellow stars”
“Myself, for a year and a half, (…) I have counted again, I have filed a complaint 23 times for anti-Semitic threats or letters that I may have received,” she indicated. .
She described threats that “reflect on my Judaism that I have never hidden.” “They send me yellow stars, they regret that my family was not completely exterminated in the camps,” she explained, describing these acts as “terrible”.
“It’s something that must mobilize us all,” she said, deploring “a liberation of speech, whether on social networks” but also “in real life” with “people who assume anti-Semitic opinions in front of cameras, writing them without even hiding their identity.”
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“I call for a collective start because the foundations of our Republic and what we are, as a French people, are at stake,” said the President of the Assembly, descendant of Polish and Jewish immigration. German, with grandparents who arrived in France in the 1930s.
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