Lawyer, essayist, columnist at Le Figaro and on the CNews channel, founder and chairman of Avocats sans Frontières, Gilles-William Goldnadel took up his pen the day after 7 October to write a “Journal de guerre” (Fayard), marked in particular by his analysis and rejection of the mediatic Islamo-leftism. In his view, anti-Semitism has “moved from the extreme right to the extreme left”. Explanations.
By Ian Hamel– To those who say that it would be naive to imagine that the RN is acting without ulterior motives in the fight against anti-Semitism, you reply in your book “Journal de guerre. It’s the West that’s being murdered”: “I don’t give a damn about Jean-Marie Le Pen (…) I don’t give a damn about Dad’s anti-Semitism. I’m fighting today’s Islamists”. Aren’t you afraid that one day you’ll be reproached for your imprudence?
– Gilles-William Goldnadel: Read more: “The first diversion consists, in the political shell game, in showing Daddy’s anti-Semitism to hide his Islamist child from mass immigration. The person who is fighting it most firmly today, without attacking Muslims, as Macron falsely claims, is Marine Le Pen, daughter of the man I don’t give a damn about”. Let me be very clear: Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella no longer have anything to do with Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Front National.
– When did you realise that anti-Semitism had “moved from the extreme right to the extreme left”?
– Before the war, anti-Semitism was right-wing, extreme right-wing. From the 1970s onwards, he gradually moved to the left, especially to the far left. Later, when I was elected to the board of the Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France (CRIF), I was the first to say so. Unlike some members of the community living in the capital, I was born in Normandy, and was even the only Jew in my school. I’m not an “imaginary” Jew, still fascinated by the fascist far right of a fantasised past. On the other hand, I understood very early on that mass immigration was a mortal danger for the French in general and for the Jewish community in particular. Anti-Semitism is just the tip of the iceberg of anti-white racism.
– Leftist anti-Semitism developed in the early 90s when the British Trotskyites replaced the working class, which decidedly no longer followed them, with Muslims. The French Trotskyists followed suit, but much later. Could you have imagined, before 7 October 2023, that anti-Semitism would reach such proportions?
– Honestly, even in my worst nightmares, I had no idea that anti-Semitism could reach such a level! Of course, I suspected that Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumise would be shouting as loud as possible along with the Arab street. For the far left, Jews are no longer even a minority. They no longer have the right to be victims, only executioners. For them, the Jew is not only hated as a Jew, but he is also hated as a white man, as a super-white man. In the name of this anti-white racism, for the terrorists in Gaza as for the Islamo-leftists in Paris, the Jew can only be part of the camp of the oppressors. Even when Israeli women are raped. The Islamo-leftists have replaced the Jew on the cross with the Palestinian.
– From the very first pages of your book, you accuse Edwy Plenel, the founder of Mediapart, recalling that in 1972, under the pseudonym Joseph Krasny, he had “publicly enjoyed the massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich” in “Rouge”, the organ of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR).
– I consider Plenel to be the most perfect and dangerous prototype of the disillusioned far-left philosemite. Plenel loves the Jew, but only in striped trousers and about to be gassed. He adores the Jew who doesn’t defend himself. On the other hand, a Jew in a khaki uniform who joins Tsahal, the Israeli army, who fights and kills, is Judas for him… The most serious thing is the “plenalisation” of minds in the world of journalism.
– In your book, you admit that you lack “Christian charity” …
– The Israeli services have eliminated one by one those responsible for the attack on their athletes in Munich. This revenge strikes me as very fair and very human. He who shows mercy to the wicked does wrong to the righteous, says a Talmudic maxim. It’s true, I don’t have Christian charity. Why should I be embarrassed to write that the far-left press no longer has the intellectual and moral wherewithal to bring it back? Or that a Jew is more at home in Judea than an illegal Algerian in Saint-Denis?
– You are hardly any more tender with Jean-Luc Mélenchon in particular and the far left in general. You write: “Not only do the lives of Jews not count, but their deaths give them a hard-on” …
– Jean-Luc Mélenchon no longer hopes to come to power through the ballot box. It is no longer electioneering. He wants to make a mess. His sights are firmly set on the Big Night. I don’t underestimate the danger at all. If Jean-Luc Mélenchon came to power, my life expectancy in France would be very limited. As Michel Onfray has written, “Islamo-Leftism is fascism”. We must have the intelligence and political courage to tell the Arab street of 2023 that it resembles the Hitler mobs of 1933. That there’s no real difference between Doriot and Panot.
– Criticism of Israel is, of course, conceivable. You yourself recognise that this country is not without its faults. But how can we explain this pathological detestation on the part of the Insoumis, who ran the entire European election campaign on this theme?
– The Insoumis hate Israel because for them it is the embodiment of the West. I write it on the cover of my book: “It’s the West that’s being murdered”. This is a war of civilisation. The Insoumis, like Amnesty International, want to put an end to white supremacy in the West. Jean-Luc Mélenchon had no hesitation in putting pro-Palestinian activist Rima Hassan on his Insoumis list. Even though she was brought up in Niort, France, and not in a refugee camp. Rima Hassan’s parents are not refugees either. Only his great-grandparents would be! But for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, it doesn’t matter, it’s just a detail. Why should he care about the truth?
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