BHL, after years to castigate it, applauds Trump: everything is forgiven … as long as it is for Israel

It is a reversal that says a lot. Bernard-Henri Lévy, media philosopher, billionaire in white shirt and professional lessons, usually prompt to denounce the outrageousness of Donald Trump, has just sent him a tribute as unexpected as it is edifying. On X (ex-Twitter), he wrote: “This is the first time I say it. Maybe the last. But I say it with all my heart: thank you, President Trump. Thank you for Israel. »»

The same BHL which has continued to vilify Trump – for its populism, its contempt for institutions, its authoritarian drifts, its filthy vulgarity – erases a single tweet years of condemnations. For what ? Because the American president supports Israel, which is allegedly aligned with the most extreme positions of the Netanyahu government, in defiance of international law and UN resolutions. Whether it has ordered strikes on nuclear sites in Iran or is an accomplice of the current genocide in Gaza by providing unconditional support to Israel does not seem to be any problem. This is enough, it seems, to deserve a recognition “wholeheartedly”.

This sudden reverence betrays a constant in this Plateau philosopher, a millionaire of the living room, moralizing for selective use: morality never holds long in front of its Israeli obsession. It does not matter that Trump has fueled racial hatreds, denied the climate crisis, encouraged the far -right militias or attempted an institutional coup. All this goes to the hatch as soon as it is Israel. This tweet is not trivial. He throws a raw light on the hypocrisy of a worldly intellectual, rich self -proclaimed humanist and one -sided militant, who behind great ethical flights, practices an indignation with variable geometry. A man who forgives the unforgivable, provided that it serves his cause.