2023-11-09 18:59:26
Faced with the increase in acts hostile to Jews in France, the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, and the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, called “all those who recognize themselves in the values of our Republic” to participate on Sunday November 12 in a “great civic march” against anti-Semitism. Wednesday evening, Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher announced on TF1 that they “ will march at the head of this procession” more “not next to the National Rally”.
To allow French people who wish to join this initiative throughout France, the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) called, Thursday, November 9, for a gathering in front of each department prefecture on Sunday at 3 p.m., at the time of departure of the planned march in Paris. “It is the very unity of our nation that is at stake and that all citizens must defend”affirms the AMF in a communiqué.
Questions about the participation of the President of the Republic
For his part, Emmanuel Macron, who has still not announced whether or not he will participate in Sunday’s march against anti-Semitism, will in any case speak on this issue in the coming days, advisers to the party said on Thursday. presidential camp. “There will be an expression from the president by Sunday”, said one of them. The format and precise timing have not yet been decided.
On Wednesday, in a speech before the Grand Orient of France, the main French allegiance of Freemasonry, the President of the Republic already had very harsh words against the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the country, particularly since the war in the Middle East. East triggered by the unprecedented attack carried out on October 7 in Israel by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
He pinned down those who “prefer to remain ambiguous on the question of anti-Semitism for the sake of flattering new communitarianisms”targeting La France insoumise which refuses to join the transpartisan march on Sunday.
But also those who “claim to support our compatriots of the Jewish faith by confusing the rejection of Muslims and the support of Jews, by refusing (…) to clearly condemn their past position and all the definitive words of yesterday”, in an allusion to the extreme right. The National Rally has in fact announced its participation in the march, plunging the left and the Macronists into embarrassment.
The CRIF “do not wish” that the RN participates in the march
Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) said he would like Emmanuel Macron to come. “It would be good if the President of the Republic were there”, he said. But he repeated his belief that « the [Rassemblement national, RN] et [La France Insoumises] are actors who are located outside the republican field”.
“We do not want people who are heirs of a party founded by former collaborators to be present”he declared, accusing the RN d’“a form of exploitation of this march which is indecent”. Likewise, for him “Insoumise France cultivates friendships with open anti-Semites, they demonstrate with Islamists, cultivate links with indigenous movements, they are almost openly supportive of Hamas, here we have the arsonists’ ball”he denounced.
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