Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the head of La France Insoumise, a political party that promotes Muslim immigration, pooh-poohs alarm over Muslim crime and the cost of welfare benefits for Muslims, and instead promotes antisemitism. Mélenchon is also a communist, though his level of living suggests he is not about to deny himself any creature comforts. More on this unpleasant Frenchman can be found here: “French Far-Left Leader, Presidential Candidate Under Fire for Antisemitism Threatens Israel With Military Force,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, June 1, 2026:
The leader of France’s largest leftist coalition in parliament and a 2027 presidential candidate appeared to threaten Israel with international military action, marking the latest controversy surrounding the longtime anti-Israel lawmaker, who critics have accused of helping fuel the ongoing surge in antisemitism across France.
On Sunday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to occupy southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have been fighting the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, and called for an international military deployment against Israel.
“Israel is invading and annexing all of southern Lebanon. Netanyahu has raised his flag over Beaufort Castle. This French name should remind us of the thousand-year history that binds us to Lebanon. We owe the Lebanese people aid, solidarity, and support in the face of genocidal forces,” Mélenchon wrote in a post on X.
“The aircraft carrier would serve as a more useful symbol in the Mediterranean than in the Strait of Hormuz, to remind Netanyahu that his interference in our elections and his invasions of our allies’ territories are viewed as threats by the French,” he continued. “The UN Security Council must condemn Israel and organize the withdrawal of its forces from the occupied territory.”…
What Jean-Luc Mélenchon fails to understand is that Beaufort Castle, which the Crusaders built, is not a symbol of solidarity with Muslims, but rather, a symbol of the Christian attempt to defeat the Muslims during the Crusades, and take back the Holy Land, la Terre Promise, from the Muslims who had seized it and kept Christian pilgrims from visiting it. Still more outrageous is his charge that Israel has “annexed” all of southern Lebanon. The IDF is in southern Lebanon for only one reason: to crush the terror group Hezbollah that continues to fire missiles and drones into Israel. Israel has no intention of “annexing” southern Lebanon. Nor are Israeli soldiers “genocidal brutes.” It is the IDF that makes tremendous efforts to spare the lives of civilians. To this end, it has dropped millions of leaflets, sent millions of text messages, and made millions of robocalls, all to warn civilians to stay away from areas, and buildings, about to be targeted. Mélenchon does not know that the Israelis are not the only ones who want Hezbollah to be crushed. So do three-quarters of the Lebanese, including all the Christians, all the Sunni Muslims, and even some of the Shi’a. If he knew anything about Lebanon, he should be cheering the IDF’s effort to free the country from the terror group’s grip.
Mélenchon has previously said that “antisemitism remains residual in France,” remarks critics said downplayed a sharp surge in anti-Jewish hatred that erupted following the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Antisemitism is “residual in France”? What can Mélenchon be talking about? Jews make up 0.8% of the French population, but more than 50% of hate crimes in the country are directed at Jews. Has he forgotten the murders of Ilan Halimi, whose Muslim kidnappers held for two weeks and tortured to death, and of 65-year old Sarah Halimi, whose Muslim neighbor, whom she had befriended, beat to death and then threw out of a window, and of 85-year old Mireille Knoll, stabbed and then set on fire, and of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his sons Aryeh (6) and Gabriel (3), and 8-year-old Myriam Monsenego, murdered in a 2012 terrorist attack at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, and of the four Jews murdered at the Hypercacher supermarket at the Porte de Vincennes?
None of these antisemitic atrocities appears to have made an impression on Mélenchon, with his cold heart for Jewish suffering at the hands of Muslims, whose support he courts, whose presence he endorses.
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Yet another example of the Left Wing and Islam alliance.