‘I Am an Antisemite’

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In France, Inès Corbière, the far-left daughter of two far-left members of the French National Assembly, has been very active recently on social media, enthusiastically vilifying Israel and Jews. She was caught on camera saying the same kind of things she has been posting; when she realized she was being recorded, she told the cameraman to stop filming her. And then she yelled at the cameraman that “I am an antisemite. I don’t give a damn.” She has now been arrested for her “pro-terror” media posts.

According to her parents, she was misunderstood. She really meant to say the very opposite of what she did, in fact, say. According to them, she meant to say “I am not an antisemite.” They explained to the world that their daughter “hates racism and antisemitism.” Whom should we believe? Her parents, trying to protect her with an obvious lie, or the nasty little mademoiselle herself, who is proud to announce that “I am an antisemite”? More on this contretemps can be found here: “‘She Hates Antisemitism,’ Far Left French MPs Claim Following Arrest of Their Daughter for ‘Pro-Terror’ Social Media Posts,” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, January 19, 2024:

…22-year-old Inès Corbière was arrested on Tuesday for posts made in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel, in which more than 1,200 people were murdered and over 200 kidnapped amid atrocities that included rape, bodily mutilation and decapitation.

Corbière is the daughter of Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière, two MPs who sit in the French National Assembly on behalf of “La France Insoumise” (LFI — “France Rising”), a far left grouping that has frequently attacked Israel’s military response to the Hamas atrocities. She is understood to have operated a now suspended account on the X/Twitter platform using the handle “Babynesou.”

The leader of La France Insoumise is Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who In his virulent hostility to Israel and to Jews is the French equivalent of Jeremy Corbyn. Lacking any sympathy for the Jewish state in its fight for survival against Hamas, a group that declares In its charter that it intends to “obliterate” Israel and to replace it with a twenty-third Arab state, the party to which Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière belong, is favored not just by far-left French people, but also by Muslim voters. There is no mystery to this support: La France Insoumise stands athwart any attempts by the French government to limit immigration by economic migrants, and to limit their access to welfare benefits. These immigrants are overwhelmingly Muslims from North Africa.

One comment on the feed spoke disparagingly of the Israeli hostages being held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

“Maybe I don’t have a soul, but they [the hostages] don’t bother me at all, I even find them rather annoying, especially the kids,” the post read.

Can one imagine the moral depravity of someone capable of such a thought? These hostages, ranging in age from one year to 89 years, are being held held in hellish conditions underground, deprived of needed medicine, living mainly on moldy pita, with some of them — according to the testimony of hostages released in November — subject to beatings and, in some cases, to repeated rape. According to the IDF, about 27 of the hostages have died — been murdered — in captivity. But Inès Corbière doesn’t give a damn. She finds those hostages “rather annoying, especially the kids.”

On the eve of a pro-Hamas march in Paris, another post asked provocatively: “Who’s excited to go and destroy the Zionists there?”

This was not a march for the Palestinians. It was a march for Hamas, the terror group that just a few weeks before had murdered 1300 Israelis and kidnapped 260. Inès Corbière was urging people to come out to join the march and also to beat up any supporters of Israel — “destroy the Zionists” — who might show up to protest the pro-Hamas rally. She knew what Hamas had done: the babies beheaded, the children burned alive, the girls repeatedly raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered, the women whose breasts were sliced off and thrown about,, the men whose eyes were gouged out, and their genitalia cut off, the children murdered in front of their parents and the parents murdered in front of their children. All this Inès Corbière knows, and even so, she still urges people to join her at a march in support of Hamas murderers, and what’s more, to “destroy” — that is, beat up — any “Zionists” who might show up to protest. She has clearly violated the French law against public support for terrorism.

Another post, dated Nov. 14, showed a young woman understood to be Corbière arguing with a person who was filming her at a demonstration on a cellphone. “I’m antisemitic, I don’t give a damn!” the woman is heard yelling before telling her interlocutor to “stop filming.”…

“First of all, we want to express with emotion our understanding and affection to all those who are shocked to read or listen to the words or expressions that are broadcast in this case,” said Corbière and Garrido said, before adding : “It emerges from our conversations with Ines that she hates and disapproves of racism and antisemitism.”…

So will the real Inès Corbière please stand up? But we already know what she thinks. Despite the asseveration of her parents, she neither hates nor disapproves of antisemitism. She revels in it. She is proud of it. She yells out “I am an antisemite. I don’t give a damn.” She fills social media with posts dripping with contempt for those “annoying” hostages held by Hamas, “especially the kids.” Her parents are lying, preposterously, about her supposed views, in order to rescue her from punishment – perhaps even prison? — for “praising terrorism.”

At the same time, they spoke of a “strict distinction” between themselves as accountable public figures and their children, who were entitled to “total protection of their privacy and their physical and moral integrity.”

There should be no “strict distinction” here between far-left parents and far-left daughter. The parents belong to a party that is anti-Israel and, under its current leader, also antisemitic. Their child’s noxious views are merely a stronger dose of what she has been fed by them at home. And why do they think that their daughter, who is twenty-two years old and thus an adult in the eyes of the law, should be entitled to “total protection of her privacy and her physical and moral integrity”? She’s an adult who has violated the laws of France, which prohibits the expression of support for terrorism? She’s now been arrested. Surely the police had a right to search for further evidence of her support for terrorism, in both her own apartment and in her parents’ house.

The transparent attempt of her parents to deny what she so clearly meant when she claimed proudly “I am an antisemite,” will fool no one. And what about her post dismissing those Israeli hostages, “especially the kids” whom she finds so “annoying”? The parents have been silent about that, for what can they say to explain away this appalling remark? And they say nothing, either, about their daughter’s social media post calling on others to join her at a pro-Hamas rally, where she hopes there will be pro-Israel demonstrators to beat up. The parents helped mold the mind of this moral monster, and now she will pay the price for her mental distemper. One hopes they will stop lying about their daughter, and realize that they have only themselves to blame for how she has turned out. They deserve to share the anguish.