The CFCM denounces intolerable remarks on i24News calling for the ethnic cleaning of the Palestinians of Gaza

In a press release published on January 28, 2024, the CFCM is alarmed and firmly denounces remarks made on the i24news channel in France concerning the Palestinian population of Gaza.

The CFCM highlights in particular several statements which it deems scandalous:

  • The words of a member of Likoud calling for “physical destruction of Gaza” and the “relocation” of its population
  • A survey published by I24News on the displacement of Gazaouis to Egypt and Jordan
  • The declarations of the Franco-Israeli lawyer Nili Kupfer qualifying the quay of an anti-Semitic “orsay and supporting the movement of 1.5 million Gazaouis

The CFCM denounces what it considers as an ethnic cleaning project aimed at making Gaza uninhabitable to force its population at the exodus. The organization condemns these proposals that it deems “abject and inhuman”, recalling that they violate international law and fundamental rights. He indicates that he seized the Arcom and wonders about the dissemination of such remarks in France “without contradiction or moderation”. He calls on the authorities, the media and civil society to react to what he calls “disturbing drift”, stressing that “silence in the face of the unacceptable is always guilty”.

CFCM press release:

Intolerable remarks encouraging ethnic cleaning

and serious insults towards French diplomacy broadcast in France

In France, on a chain broadcast in our media landscape, declarations openly encouraging ethnic cleaning and the flagrant violation of the fundamental rights of the Palestinians were held.

A member of the Israeli Likoud thus declared on the i24News channel: ” From October 7, I said what to do, namely the physical destruction of the Gaza Strip, which is (today) about the case at 70 %, and there will be More choice than the relocation of the Gaza population elsewhere. »»

He continued by suggesting that: ” This displaced population takes Egyptian nationality “, that ” Palestinians become Egyptian citizens “And that” A few hundred thousand Palestinians had to be sent to Indonesia … which represents nothing on the scale of this country. »»

In addition, the i24News channel itself has published an unworthy and provocative survey on its page X (formerly Twitter): “ Do you support Donald Trump’s proposal to move Gazaouis to Egypt and Jordan? »»

These scandalous words do not stop there. Franco-Israeli lawyer Nili Kupfer, known for her extremist positions, said on this same channel: “The Quai d’Orsay has this anti-Semitic tradition, anti-Israeli has always been. »»

She also tweeted: ” Trump thinks of moving 1.5 million Gazaouis to Egypt, Jordan and other Arab countries. This is the only real solution so as not to recreate the conditions for a new October 7. »»

These statements are part of a rhetoric supporting the words of the extremist Israeli Bezalel Smotrich, who himself said: ” I work with the Prime Minister and the Cabinet to prepare an operational plan and ensure the realization of the vision of President Trump. (to move the Gazan population to other countries) ».

These projects of another age are an insult to the fundamental principles of international law, human rights and the very values ​​of our civilization.

The real objective: the forced exodus of the Palestinians

From the start, the real objective seems to be to make Gaza uninhabitable in order to force its population to a massive exodus, prelude to a total annexation of this territory by messianic colonists.

After having dehumanized and massacred the Palestinians, some now publicly call for their deportation. This perspective, mentioned on a chain broadcast in France, is unacceptable and revolting.

Palestinians are human beings. They are neither an animal species nor parcels that could be shipped around the world according to the whims of certain leaders.

No religion, no sacred text or no legal rule can legitimize such forced and massive movements, worthy of the darkest periods in our history.

Behind the euphemized expression of ” Population relocation Hide a brutal reality: an ethnic cleaning project.

A project to uproot a people

The absurd and provocative proposals, such as sending the Gazaouis to Indonesia or Malaysia, are only additional evidence of the desire to completely uproot a people already broken by decades of suffering. This project aims to erase their existence as a nation and to seize their land.

The CFCM, faithful to the values ​​of the majority of French citizens, firmly condemns these abject and inhuman remarks. An alert was sent to the Arcom to denounce these incentives to hatred broadcast on French waves.

However, it is incomprehensible that in France, calls for the deportation of civilian populations and insults towards our diplomacy can be disseminated with impunity, without contradiction or moderation.

We call the competent authorities, the media and the whole of civil society to react to this disturbing drift. History teaches us that silence in the face of the unacceptable is always guilty.

Paris, January 28, 2025

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