"When Mélenchon... denies the terrorist nature of October 7"
Goldnadel: "When Mélenchon co-opts Marc Bloch... and denies the terrorist nature of October 7" by Gilles-William Goldnadel FIGAROVOX/COLUMN – Shortly after posing with the descendant of Marc Bloch at the Panthéon, the leader of LFI…
Assessment
A prominent French lawyer accuses Jean-Luc Mélenchon of contradicting himself by honoring a Jewish resistance hero while questioning whether the October 7 attack was terrorism. The column uses this juxtaposition to argue that France's far left harbors dangerous ambiguities about antisemitic violence. The core dispute is whether political gestures of solidarity with Jewish figures can coexist with ideological refusals to name mass violence as terrorism.