2023-11-02 13:40:00
The actor and comedian published a message on Linkedin to condemn the increase in anti-Semitic acts in France since the Hamais terrorist attacks on October 7 in Israel, and the lack of reactions in France.
Two weeks after the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, and while anti-Semitic acts are increasing in France, comedian Philippe Torreton speaks. In a text entitled I am Jewish, published Wednesday on Linkedinthe actor from Félix et Lola denounces the lack of reaction to this Islamist attack and the resurgence of anti-Jewish hatred.
Hamas terrorists managed to enter Israeli soil on October 7. At least 1,400 people, including 35 Frenchwere killed in the massacre perpetrated that morning, described by some observers as a “pogrom”. “For the sole reason that they were Jewish,” emphasizes Philippe Torreton. More than 200 hostages are held in the Gaza Strip.
“No signs, no slogans”
“A few years ago we wore ‘Je suis Charlie’ with eyes full of tears and our hearts in black,” recalls the actor in the preamble to his text. “We were then millions and this slogan was displayed everywhere on the walls of our cities in huge advertising posters.” Before drawing a comparison with the little response generated by this new attack by Islamist terrorism:
“I search and I search and I see nothing,” he writes. “No signs, no unifying slogans, no huge processions, no slogans, no concerts, nothing or very little.”
“Yes, in fact, sorry,” he continues. “I see anti-Semitic graffiti being painted cowardly on the walls of our cities. I see linguistic convolutions failing to denounce the horror, I see cynicism and far-left political patronage stuttering, I see the European shame regaining its health more than 80 years after its last triumph, I see Alzheimer tearing the pages of our history books and Parkinson preventing us from banging our fists on the desks in Brussels and New York.” Before concluding:
“I finally see a small country standing alone against Islamist barbarism. So I say it in the name of the fighting and resistant France which saw the birth of Zola, in the name of these ‘twenty and hundred’ in the name of ‘those thousands’ that sang Ferrat who wanted, as I want today, for his children to know who you were: I am Jewish.”
Massacre in the Middle East and French divide
Since October 7, controversies have continued in France. On the side of the Insoumis, we are reluctant to qualify this attack as terrorism. LFI MP Danièle Obono sparked outrage by describing Hamas, in power in Gaza since 2006, as a resistance movement.
In addition, 819 anti-Semitic acts have been recorded in France since October 7. Among the most publicized, Stars of David found tagged on the walls of homes in Paris and Île-de-France, as well as a video showing several individuals claiming to be Nazism in the Paris metro.
Strong retaliation from Israel
Retaliation by the Jewish state left 8,525 dead in Gaza, according to a report from the Hamas Ministry of Health. If voices were raised to support Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism at the start of the offensive, the Quai d’Orsay expressed its deep concern after the death of around fifty civilians in a strike of Israel on a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths denounced “the latest atrocity hitting the people of Gaza.” For its part, the IDF has not commented on these accusations but has insisted in previous statements that these attacks were aimed objective of killing executives of the Hamas terrorist organization.
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