Manuel Bompard reframes a journalist relaying false information about Zohran Mamdani

ByMuhammad

Sunday guest on the show Political issues (France Info / France Inter / Le Monde), Manuel Bompard, deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône and coordinator of La France insoumise, sharply reprimanded a journalist who relayed false information targeting the new mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani, committed against the genocide in Gaza and supported by LFI. The journalist first asserts that Mamdani would be “openly pro-Palestinian” and that he would have taken up the slogan “globalize intifada”, which she immediately – and falsely – interprets as “waging war on Jews everywhere in the world”, before insinuating that he would refuse to condemn October 7.

Manuel Bompard immediately takes it up: “There are three false pieces of information in what you have just said. (…) You are here to inform people and not misinform them. » He specifies that Zohran Mamdani never used this slogan, that he had simply refused to “police words” when asked about others, and that he condemned the attacks of October 7.

Relaunched on the fact that Zohran Mamdani would raise funds for UNRWA – described by the journalist as an agency “accused of collusion with Hamas” – Bompard replied: “Madam, UNRWA is a UN agency. An independent international investigation established that there was no collusion. You accuse someone of funding a UN humanitarian agency that opens schools for Palestinian children. » This extract summarizes a persistent media drift: journalists supposed to inform the public reproduce fake news to maintain the conflation between support for Palestine and “Islamism”. This time, Manuel Bompard put the facts front and center, point by point.

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