#I cannot fucking believe the amount of descendants of tunisians voting far right or defending them holy shit. the fucking betrayal

[thebusylilbee]

Putting the french far-right's old school antisemitism (literally neonazi shit) on the same level as the french left's antizionism is uh...... not intellectually honest to remain polite.

The "constant confounding of Israel, Zionism and Jews" is literally what the centrists and the right as whole have been doing NON-STOP in France since last October, while the left desperately tries to make the distinction clear to the public. Although one of the big figure (Mélenchon cited above) of the far-left has made antisemitic comments in the past he does NOT represent the entire left. He's literally the only one on the left that's on thin ice on this topic meanwhile on the right you could easily cite 30 WELL KNOWN antisemites and many more who hide it better. It it NOT a choice between the plague and cholera, it's a choice between the plague and like... an unpleasant cold. Every single french antizionist jewish group (like Tsedek) has made that very very clear.

It's also a choice that non-jewish maghrebis have had to make since forever if I might add. French maghrebis as a whole have always had to vote strategically for parties that barely tolerate them in order to avoid parties that want them straight-up dead, so the comments of that Sonia Lelloum are absolutely fucking laughable. "'“I’d like France to stay French,” said Lelloum" YOU ARE NOT SEEN AS FRENCH BY FAR-RIGHTERS YOU ABSOLUTE MORON. The fact that she thinks she's somehow not one of the maghrebis the far-right wants gone from this country just because she's not muslim is absolutely delusional, I'm not muslim either and you bet your ass I still get hate from far-righters because they do NOT care about this distinction. A literal case of voting for the Leopard Eating Face party expecting to keep your own face... I'm ashamed to share my origins with her.

Finally I would like to point out this insane sentence, not even contextualized or discussed further in anyway in this article : "While it makes sense for Jews to fear radical Islam, he said, “that doesn’t mean one should rush into the arms of another wolf.”" Implying that a vote for the left is a vote for radical islam is literally insane far-right rhetoric, it doesn't matter if the far-right is compared to "another wolf" too the premise of this comparison is crazy and racist as fuck.

In conclusion : fuck the far-right, fuck racists and fuck people who support the ongoing colonial genocide in Palestine and are ready to sacrifice all non-white french people to defend it.

Covering an entire classroom wall in a Tunisian synagogue in Belleville, an immigrant haven on the slopes of northeastern Paris, are the names of 1,100 Jewish children who were arrested by French police, deported to Auschwitz and killed by the Nazis during World War II.[...]

Despite this dark history, some Jews in Belleville are doing the once unthinkable and voting in France’s National Assembly election for the far-right National Rally party, which is leading in polls for Sunday’s runoff.

One of the party’s founders, Pierre Bousquet, was a French fighter in Hitler’s Waffen-SS. Another, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who led the party from its birth in 1972 until 2011, dismissed Nazi gas chambers as a “detail” of history.[...]

It’s also a measure of how much the French left has enraged Jewish voters with its ferocious attacks on Israel and Zionism as it tries to build support among French Muslims, a substantially larger group of voters.[...]

Judith Benchetrit said she’d voted for the National Rally in the first round — and asked whether anyone else had watched a harrowing TV documentary the night before about the Oct. 7 attack.

It was her deep loathing of the far-left France Unbowed movement and its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, that led her to back the far right.

Mélenchon “campaigns on Palestine, so now he’s got all the Palestinians and every Arab in France behind him,” said Benchetrit, who is 32 and unemployed.

The National Rally has recast itself as an ally of Jews and Israel. If the party wins a majority in the assembly, its leader, Jordan Bardella, could become prime minister, putting France under the far right’s control for the first time since the fall of the Vichy regime that collaborated with the German occupation from 1940 to 1944.[...]

Sonia Lelloum, a daughter of Tunisian Jewish immigrants, said she’d resisted the temptation to vote for the National Rally in previous elections because of its Nazi ties. This time, she said, she went ahead and did it because she likes the party’s crusade against immigration.[...]

Most worrisome to [some] is the constant confounding of Israel, Zionism and Jews.[...]

One of the most stunning illustrations of the new opening to the far right came last month when the renowned Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, 88, an icon to many Jews in France, told French television that if forced to choose between the National Rally and the country’s largest left-wing party, France Unbowed, he would pick the National Rally.

6 Jul 24