Haïm Korsia reiterated on Radio J his rejection of “all those who develop a form of anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism, which is proven anti-Semitism”.
The chief rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia, reaffirmed on Sunday his opposition to the candidates of “far right” like D'”leftmostin view of the presidential election, i.e. “all those who develop a form of anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism, which is proven anti-Semitism“.
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“I have always respected a neutrality which is that of my function. On the other hand, neutrality does not mean being a coward or a coward, so I get involved when republican values are in danger“, declared on Radio J the highest religious leader of the first Jewish community in Europe.
Asked about remarks made in the fall about Eric Zemmour (“certainly anti-Semitic, obviously racist“), Haïm Korsia replied: “I don’t think a rabbi can give voting instructions. On the other hand, when we say ‘Dreyfus was guilty’ or when we doubt (…) the innocence of Dreyfus, then it is a clear marker of anti-Semitism“.
“It’s trouble, this story“Said Eric Zemmour about the Dreyfus affair. “We’ll never know, it’s not easy“, he also said concerning the innocence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted in 1894 of espionage for the benefit of Germany, before being rehabilitated in 1906.
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In addition, “when the National Front (the National Rally, Editor’s note) says ‘there will be no more religious signs in the street’, does that mean that I have to support someone who will therefore ban the kippa, the hat?asked Haïm Korsia. “We go into the impossible republican“, he estimated. The Chief Rabbi of France has reaffirmed a position of principle which consists in “never vote for the extremes“, to know “extreme left, extreme right“.
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Without naming any candidate, he included “all those who deny a reality, and who develop in their own way a form of anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism, which is a proven anti-Semitism“. “This is the IHRA definition.», the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: «anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism“, he argued.
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