At the heart of a controversy due to a tweet deemed anti-Semitic, the rapper Médine explained Thursday that he “overreacted” to “an insult” and denounced the “despicable attacks” against him, during a debate in the days of summer of Europe-Écologie-les-Verts where he was heartily applauded.
Welcomed by a standing ovation, the artist immediately returned to the affair triggered by his message on X (ex-Twitter) where he described the essayist Rachel Khan, Jewish and granddaughter of deportees, as “resKHANpée “. “I was responding to an insult, an attack”, he justified, recalling that Rachel Khan had initially written that the invitation to Medina by EELV was “a very good idea for the waste treatment workshop”.
No ambiguity. I attacked Rachel Khan’s career path. The unsuitable formula, which certainly must have offended people and I apologize for that, was not directed towards his family or towards the victims of the tragedy of the Holocaust.
Rachel Khan treated me a few…
— Medina (@Medinrecords) August 11, 2023
“Three weeks that I live hell with my family”
“I overreacted and I had this awkwardness to use this word (survivor, editor’s note) of which I did not measure the historical emotional charge”, he continued, adding that he was gone. “apologized immediately”. But still without acknowledging the anti-Semitic nature of his response, contrary to what many leading environmentalists have asked for in recent days.
The artist, on the other hand, denounced the “filthy attacks” which have targeted him since, considering himself the victim of “trial of intent” and “by association”. It’s been “three weeks since I’ve been through hell with my family (…), not everyone is ready to take that”, he lamented.
“It’s not about me deconstructing myself on what I may have said,” said Médine, drawing a parallel with “what social movements (and) young people in the suburbs are going through, because they are criminalized “, attracting regular applause from a room won over to his cause. “It’s obvious, you’re welcome here”, could only see his host, the general secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier.