2023-10-23 10:16:54
His trip to Israel had created controversy on the left, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon accusing him of “camping in Tel Aviv to encourage the massacre”. The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet said she was “very shocked” this Monday by the words spoken by the leader of France Insoumise, concerning his visit to Israel. According to her, Jean-Luc Mélenchon put “a new target on her back”. “At the moment some are looking for division (…) There are some who blow on the embers incessantly,” she added at the microphone of France Inter.
Visibly moved, the President of the National Assembly considered that Jean-Luc Mélenchon had not “chosen” his words “by chance” and in particular that of “camper” which – for her – refers to concentration camps. According to the website of The national assemblyYaël Braun-Pivet is a “granddaughter of a Polish Jew expatriated to Nancy to escape the anti-Semitism of the 1930s”.
“I don’t understand why it’s the Jewish identity that stands out (when we talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict). I am a politician, I am French, I am not practicing, not believing, but suddenly some people no longer see that”, supported the one who was targeted by death threats shortly after the attack on Hamas against Israel. “I believe that today – as president of the National Assembly – I represent the Nation, the French who elected me,” added the Yvelines MP.
“Express our solidarity”
Yaël Braun-Pivet went to Israel from this Saturday evening to this Sunday in the company of the deputy for French people abroad Meyer Habib (related LR), the president of the France-Israel friendship group Mathieu Lefèvre (Renaissance) and of the president of the Republicans Éric Ciotti.
The PS and the Communist Party were also invited, an invitation that the two left-wing parties refused. “It seemed to us that the place of the President of the National Assembly was in Israel to express our solidarity in the face of the attacks that Israel has suffered,” she explained this Monday on France Inter.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused the President of the National Assembly on in Paris. “This is France. Meanwhile Madame Braun-Pivet camps in Tel Aviv to encourage the massacre. Not in the name of the French people! “, he wrote in detail.
This is France. Meanwhile Madame Braun-Pivet camps in Tel Aviv to encourage the massacre. Not in the name of the French people! pic.twitter.com/ruxMujq14k
— Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) October 22, 2023
Other left-wing personalities such as the president of the PS Olivier Faure also criticized Yaël Braun-Pivet for talking about “unconditional support for Israel”. The President of the National Assembly reiterated her “unconditional support for Israel” this Monday, assuring that it was “the existence of Israel” that was “at stake”.
However, she denied supporting “the Israeli government unconditionally”. “France has always wanted two states. The security of Israel is not guaranteed, like the existence of the Palestinian state,” she further argued.
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