Read Kevin Ovenden’s blog here, and if you read French follow the links. It is no coincidence that this ban on France Insoumise attending a memorial to a murdered Jewish French citizen is taking place at the same time as accusatIons of anti-semitism are being made against Jeremy Corbyn. It is particularly horrifying that the leader of the French fascist National Front was welcomed at the memorial.
Not just in Britain, but also in France, austerity governments are attempting to confuse and disrupt general opposition and anti-racist sentiment.
This is an important article firmly rejecting the decision by the president of the French equivalent of the Board of Deputies in Britain, the CRIF, to ban Jean-Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise from last night’s demonstration in memory of Mireille Knoll, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor murdered in an anti-semitic attack last Friday.
In so doing, he bracketed together the radical left and the fascists of the Front National.
CRIF president Francis Khalifat claimed: “Anti-Semites are over-represented in the far left and the far right, making those parties ones that you don’t want to be associated with.”
It is an outrageous lie about Melenchon and the radical left. As this piece makes clear it is to equate a man with an impeccable record of opposition to anti-semitism and…
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