2024-01-11 15:14:48
Organizations condemned the “wave of anti-Semitic and anti-gay hatred” targeting the new French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on the “X” platform.
On Thursday, the Union of Jewish Students in France called for “sanctions” to be imposed on the publishers of these messages.
“The appointment of Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister is the subject of a new wave of anti-Semitic and anti-gay hatred on X,” the union wrote in a message published on the same platform.
He added, “This is not the time for condemnations, but for action,” especially by “imposing sanctions on all writers of hate tweets.”
On Tuesday, Gabriel Attal was appointed Prime Minister of France, making him the youngest Prime Minister in the history of the Republic and the first openly gay to hold this position, within the framework of a ministerial reshuffle that is supposed to give new impetus to Emmanuel Macron’s second term.
On Tuesday, the day Attal was appointed prime minister, Yonathan Arfi, head of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, denounced “a wave of homophobic and anti-Semitic comments on social media.”
He said on the X platform, “For the haters, it is clear that the prime minister is attributed above all to his sexual orientation or the origin of his name. To the Republican minds, he is a prime minister, just that.”
Atal was born to a father of Jewish descent and a Russian Orthodox Christian mother. He confirmed in November on TF1 that he had received “messages and insults on social media” of an anti-Semitic nature and other threatening messages since the abaya was banned in schools, and that he had been and continues to be the target of homophobic attacks.
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