300 French-speaking writers denounce a genocide in Gaza and require an immediate cease-fire

In a column published Monday, May 26 in Releasenearly 300 writers of French expression, including Annie Ernaux, JMG Le Clézio, Leïla Slimani, Virginie Despents and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and denounce an in progress “genocide”. A strong, but late call, that the signatories recognize themselves: “We have been too late talking with one voice. »»

“We can no longer be satisfied with the word” horror “, we must today name the” genocide “in Gaza”, they write, echoing the findings of international lawyers and human rights organizations. The signatories denounce the systematic destruction of civil, cultural and intellectual life in the Palestinian enclave: libraries, universities, places of writing and even the writers themselves are targeted, they say.

The gallery requires the imposition of sanctions against the State of Israel, the release of Israeli hostages still detained, but also that of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners imprisoned without judgment. She also alerts the moral responsibility of intellectuals in the face of what they qualify as a historical tragedy: “We have been too late talking with one voice. »»