he leader of the French far left said a Jewish Socialist minister
“thought in international finances, not in French,” then denied he was
referring to the minister’s origins.
Jean-Luc Melenchon made the comment in an address Saturday before the
congress in Bordeaux of the Left Party about Pierre Moscovici, France’s
finance minister. Melenchon is head of the Left Party in Bordeaux.
Harlem Desir, the first secretary of the ruling Socialist Party, was
quoted by Le Monde as calling
Melenchon’s statement “unacceptable.” He
added, “We did not expect to hear this 1930s vocabulary from the mouth
of a French republican and even less from a leader of the left.”
Melenchon denied his comments were anti-Semitic or connected in any
way to Moscovici’s Jewish origins, adding that “if Moscovici were ever
threatened for being Jewish, he would find all of us there to defend
him.”
Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, a journalist for the radio station Europe 1, accused Melenchon of “encouraging views on world Jewry.”
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/03/25/3122986/french-leftist-leader-jewish-minister-doesnt-think-in-french#When:09:35:00Z
Monday 25 March 2013
French leftist: Comments on finance minister were not anti-Semitic
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