“So you needed 80,000 dead …”: Aymeric Caron criticizes Anne Sinclair her late silence on Gaza

The deputy Aymeric Caron arrested on Friday on X (formerly Twitter) the journalist Anne Sinclair, after the publication of a text in which she criticizes the Israeli military operations in Gaza. Caron accuses him of late positions he has defended for months, while having previously attacked him publicly. “After Joann Sfar and Delphine Horvilleur, it is Anne Sinclair’s turn to ask Israel to get off on the horrors he commits to Gaza”he writes. “Like the other two, you slandered me, treaty of anti -Semitic, and you dared to place me on a list of deputies to make legislative batter in 2024. Yes, a call to fall in politically, that’s what you made, to punish me for my commitment to Palestinian civilians. »»

Aymeric Caron denounces a word recovery for word of his past statements, citing several extracts from the gallery: “The form of the actions carried out by the Israeli army in Gaza at the request of the Netanyahu government is indefensible”, “We will never be on the side of those who handle arms against the civilian population”, “The situation of Gaza concerns our simple humanity”, “The urgency calls for the end of this war”. “So you will have to wait at least 80,000 dead, including at least 20,000 children, to take up our words to us, defenders of international law”he accuses. He demands apologies, not for him, “That you insulted and harassed”but “To the Palestinians, that your silence for a year and a half authorized to exterminate”. He concludes by stressing what he considers a key admission of the Sinclair text: “We were silent. »»