A-Infos (en) France, UCL press release: Netanyahu on LCI: France hands the microphone to a genocide perpetrator (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

We think we're dreaming, they dare everything. As the bloody crushing of 
Palestine continues, the Israeli Prime Minister was invited to defend 
his policy in prime time, on a Bouygues Group channel. ---- Thursday May 
30, the channels TF1 and LCI, both owned by the Bouygues group, devoted 
thirty minutes of their 8 p.m. news to an "exclusive interview" with 
Benyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel against whom the Criminal 
Court international is considering issuing an arrest warrant for war 
crimes and crimes against humanity.

This invitation is an absolute disgrace.

Darius Rochebin, the journalist who conducted the interview, repeated 
the Israeli rhetoric as is, calling the bombing of a refugee camp on May 
26, which killed more than 45 people and more than 200 injured. This is 
not an error. The Israeli army does not make mistakes. She is committing 
genocide.

But what did Netanyahu say for thirty minutes? He spoke directly to the 
French, in their language, adapting his rhetoric to the French context. 
He talks about Samuel Paty, Islamism, putting Hamas (religious 
nationalist movement but corresponding to anti-colonial resistance) and 
Daesh (totalitarian jihadist movement of a colonial character) on the 
same level.

The theory of the "clash of civilizations" was served to us on a TV set 
directly by a war criminal. This is unprecedented, the Prime Minister of 
a terrorist state speaking directly to the people of another country to 
assure them that: "Our victory is your victory. It is the victory of 
Judeo-Christian civilizations, against barbarism, it is the victory of 
France.»

When Netanyahu conflates anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, when he 
enlists, despite themselves, the Jews of the whole world in his 
murderous crusade, when he enjoins them to support the State and the 
policies of Israel, he takes them hostage and puts them in danger.

We are not fooled and see the double standards demonstrated by the 
political and media elites. This other criminal, Putin, could never have 
been invited to prime time on our national media.

During this time, the activists were repressed by the police and the 
courts. Demonstrations are systematically gassed. MP Sébastien Delogu is 
excluded from the National Assembly for two weeks for brandishing the 
Palestinian flag.

There is an imperialist continuum in Macronist policy which goes from 
the colonial repression of Kanaky to support for Israel, including 
racist discourses on immigration and Islam.

Faced with this absolute scandal, boycott of the TF1 and LCI channels, 
support for the Palestinians' fight against genocide and against 
colonialism. Let us join the rallies organized throughout France to 
demand an immediate, permanent and unconditional ceasefire.

Ile-de-France gathering this evening and Saturday June 1 at 2 p.m. in 
Paris, Place de la République.

Libertarian Communist Union, May 31, 2024.

https://unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Netanyahou-sur-LCI-la-France-tend-le-micro-a-un-genocidaire
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