The Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, estimated this Sunday that the rapper Médine, invited to the summer universities of ecologists, had in recent years had “problematic remarks and attitudes” and in particular anti-Semitic. The latter had refuted this accusation, joking errors and awkwardness.
Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak ruled on Sunday that rapper Medina, a guest at environmentalist summer universities, had made “problematic comments and attitudes” in recent years, ranging from a gesture to a recent tweet, both “anti-Semitic”. During meetings of the EELV party, then a debate at the LFI summer days, at the end of August, Médine assured that he was not anti-Semitic, pleading errors and blunders, as in the controversial tweet targeting the essayist Rachel Khan – Jewish and granddaughter of a deportee – for which he had to apologize.
“The quenelle which is a very clearly anti-Semitic gesture”
“Medina, in recent years, has had a number of very problematic remarks and attitudes,” said Rima Abdul Malak, guest on the “Softpower” program on France Culture on Sunday. “From the quenelle which is a very clearly anti-Semitic gesture, to song lyrics like ‘I’m going to saw off the tree of secularism’ (…) to a recent tweet which smells quite strongly of attacking anti-Semitism Rachel Kahn, homophobic remarks, we are not going to list them all“, she continued. For the minister, “all of this cannot be described simply like that in all lightness of ‘clumsiness’. It is much more serious than clumsiness and for me it is inadmissible”.
According to Rima Abdul Malak, “today, the fight against anti-Semitism must have no ambiguity”. Ecologists “misled in an attempt to buzz and besides it worked”, she said again. “It made great publicity in Medina, which I regret.” The government spokesman, Olivier Véran, expressed his indignation at the end of August about the coming from Medina to the EELV summer universities.