General Policy

The title is in keeping with the current atmosphere, but if it were adopted by the assembly and not rejected by the Constitutional Council, it would challenge the constitution and the foundations of our republic.  Under the title “Proposed law to combat renewed forms of anti-Semitism, No. 575, tabled on Tuesday, November 19, 2024,” it … Read more

It is becoming difficult to challenge the fact that Israel has committed in the last 2 years a genocide by al possible definitions. If this word sounds to you as an infamy, you might use another one -war crimes, ethnic cleansing, mass killing etc. But the facts remain.  Recently, Israel has suspended humanitarian organisations that … Read more

Eva Ilouz’s article (Le Monde, December 19) suggests that anti-Zionism is inherently anti-Semitic because it denies Jews the right to have a homeland like all other peoples/religions: “Anti-Zionism questions the very legitimacy of nationalism and the Jewish national home” and is therefore anti-Semitic. Analyzing the history of anti-Semitism and the view of Jews as despicable … Read more

Netanyahu’s father succeeded Jabotinsky, who already in the 1920s and 1930s advocated for a solely Jewish state from the Jordan River to the sea. The symbol of this party of terrorists, declared as such by the British but also by Ben-Gurion’s Jewish establishment, was a fist over the entire land of Palestine. It should be … Read more

There is no doubt that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been imported into the West and weighs heavily in many areas, notably by increasing anti-Semitism. The question I ask myself is that of the apparent coincidence between this importation and the sudden decline of democracy and the rise of authoritarian regimes. One cannot help but be … Read more

To those of you who believed that Israel is a great democracy and that the IDF is the most moral army in the world, that the destruction of Gaza and the massacres in the West Bank are the result of the terrorist attacks of October 7, read the following facts, which are proven, solid, demonstrated, … Read more

It is well known that when people submit to dictatorship by censoring themselves, consciously or not, it is a sign that democracy is failing and that dictatorship is on the horizon. The conflict in Israel is growing and has worrying repercussions here in this regard. 1) At the Collège de France, Henri Laurens—certainly the foremost … Read more

Let’s summarize. The slick US president is eagerly awaiting the Nobel Prize “because he stopped eight wars and saved millions of lives”… including wars that never existed (Albania and Azerbaijan??) meaning Armenia, I presume, but this one, like the others, has not really been resolved, nor has the one between India and Pakistan… So giving … Read more

The subject is highly inflammatory with politicians in most Western countries, and the right and far right have seized upon this conflation. This theme suits them, allowing them to chip away at our rights and freedoms in general. In England, for example—the mother of democracies—hundreds of people are imprisoned for showing support for Palestine, and … Read more

It seems to me that the honor of the Peace Prize would be enhanced if it respected basic morality. It should be awarded to  Francesca Albanese for saving the honor of international institutions and revealing the extent of the genocide and the collaboration of Western companies and states that are sinking and will pay for having … Read more

Contrary to popular belief, the notion of the Jewish people as the chosen people is supposed to represent their status as witnesses to the universality of the one God who created man—all men—in his image. This is the notion of ‘witness’ (‘ED’ in Hebrew). The universality of Judaism, which has contributed so much to history, … Read more

The genocide in Gaza and the ongoing massacres in the West Bank, which has been occupied since 1967, prove that a solution to the conflict is not imminent. Zionism wants all the land without the Palestinian inhabitants, and all laws and actions are consistent with this goal and are, moreover, unconsciously accepted as such by … Read more

The rewriting of history is a hallmark of dictators and the far right. It is, of course, accompanied by the destruction of all laws and instruments of control by those in power with the aim of establishing a dictatorship. Since Gramsci, we have known the importance of this process, which inspires would-be dictators and has … Read more

In 1944, the Nazis deprived the provinces of the Netherlands that were densely populated in the west, near the major rivers, of food. Known as the “Winter of Hunger,” this blockade was intended to punish the Dutch for their reluctance to support the Nazi war effort. Food and fuel supplies from agricultural areas were cut off. The undisputed … Read more

Prime Minister Ben-Gurion said in 1948: “That’s it, we’re just like everyone else, we even have Jewish prostitutes!” In 80 years, the Jews of Israel have shown that they have nothing to envy of the massacres carried out by the Belgians, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Germans, Australians, Japanese, Yankees, etc. in the countries they colonized, … Read more

I am not politically aligned with you, but I respect your office and your election. Clearly, your second term is ending badly, with little to leave behind in history. Your only achievements so far are the inclusion of the right to abortion in the constitution and a few fair and memorable inductions into the Panthéon. … Read more

We are left speechless to see that genocide is taking place before our very eyes and that European (and US) democracies are turning a blind eye when they are not directly participating in the carnage. It is impossible for anyone in good faith to deny that genocide is taking place in Gaza. All the boxes … Read more

The media, which is mostly pro-Israel here as elsewhere, continue to proclaim that it is the Palestinian Arabs who do not want a Jewish state, when for 80 years it has been Israel that has blocked any agreement, prohibited the creation of a Palestinian state as provided for in the 1947 agreements, and terrorised and … Read more

We often forget the level of education in Gaza and Palestine. With a literacy rate of 98% (UN), Palestine has one of the highest rates in the world. With 12 universities and dozens of secondary schools, Gaza can compare itself to any developed country. Israel has understood that to dominate a country, you have to … Read more

In the Bible and the Talmud (and Jesus said something similar), it is said that those who return to the right path are worth more in the eyes of God than 1,000 righteous people. We are therefore delighted that Sinclair, Horvilleur, Sfar and a few politicians (Braun-Pivet, albeit with great caution) have recognised that they … Read more

No one with a shred of morality can deny that the events in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine constitute war crimes and genocide. The massacres committed by Hamas on 7 October cannot justify the death and starvation of an entire people, the death of thousands of starving infants and the destruction of everything that makes … Read more

We live in troubled and dangerous times, with the beginnings of great wars being announced, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly. Malraux was right to say that the next century will be religious or will not be. Indeed, we must admit that the three monotheistic religions have returned, to varying degrees, to a medieval and literal … Read more

We live in a dangerous world, with Putin wanting to re-establish the Russian Empire in Europe, Trump wanting anything and everything, and the extreme right seemingly forgetting Nazism and the world wars. Not to mention the fashionable fake news that prohibits any debate based on facts, not fantasies. So we have to prepare ourselves for … Read more

In a just world, Trump, Biden and Netanyahu should be in the Hague next to the boss of Hamas for war crimes. Trump and Biden for having paid for this war, without them Israel would not have lasted more than a week for lack of Bombs. Trump too for so many other reasons that it … Read more

I fully understand that those who are over there have a sharper vision than mine, who live far from the bombs and bombings and who consider me a traitor. BUT, it can also be said that living far away allows you to see things with a bit more reason and long-term goals! A summary as … Read more

I can’t understand how anyone could dare to question the genocide in Gaza! It’s understandable that Jews, like me, have sensitivities. But the truth is the truth and there is no point in hiding it. It is genocide, with all the requisite criteria. We start with Guernica: more bombs were dropped on potential populations than … Read more

We have used and abused all the qualifiers, adjectives, adverbs and verbs to describe, in part only, this genocide, programmed and in progress. The destruction of everything that sustains life: hospitals, schools, universities, plantations, industry, religious and administrative buildings (including land registries, taxes, police), cemeteries. In short, a country returning to the Stone Age. What … Read more

Given the positions of Mr Elon Musk, which aim to destroy democracies and replace them with dictatorships managed by his clones, I have decided, as I hope more and more people and organizations have, to stop publishing my content on X, which I am leaving without regret and am going to look elsewhere for communication … Read more