The President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, and the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, call on Tuesday “all those who recognize themselves in the values of our Republic” to participate on Sunday in Paris in a “great civic march” against anti-Semitism, alongside the conflict between Hamas and Israel.
“A march for the Republic and against anti-Semitism. A march for the France of human rights and for the united nation. A march of citizens to denounce the bearers of hatred. A march for the release of the hostages, including eight our compatriots”, they write in a column published by Le Figaro.
Anti-Semitic acts “increasing dangerously”
The presidents of both houses of Parliament denounce anti-Semitic acts which are “increasing dangerously” in France since the war triggered by the massacres perpetrated on October 7 by Hamas in Israel, with in “barely four weeks, more than 1,000 acts” recorded, “or twice as much as during the entire year of 2022”. “A start is necessary, to clearly demonstrate that France does not accept anti-Semitism and that the French do not resign themselves, and will never resign themselves to the inevitability of hatred,” they continue.
The former RN presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and party president Jordan Bardella will attend this march, the National Rally told AFP. “We will respond,” said Jordan Bardella on the X platform.
We will respond. https://t.co/Xn3s6LGfnV
— Jordan Bardella (@J_Bardella) November 7, 2023
“I will be present at this march, all Republicans must demonstrate their desire to oppose with the greatest energy this resurgence, this rise of a totally unbearable anti-Semitism,” he also declared to the press at the Assembly the president of LR, Éric Ciotti.
A march between the Senate and the National Assembly
The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, invited Monday to “take a common initiative expressing our total refusal of anti-Semitism”, in a letter addressed to all political parties, with the exception of the RN.
Gérard Larcher and Yaël Braun-Pivet speak of a march “between the Palais Bourbon and the Palais du Luxembourg”, the seats of their two assemblies, “uniting all those who recognize themselves in the values of our Republic and are determined to defend them”.