Paris (AFP)

LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon attacked the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) on Friday in a blog post commenting on the historic defeat of Labor Jeremy Corbyn in the British elections.

"Retirement with points, German and neoliberal Europe, green capitalism, genuflection in front of the arrogant ukases of the CRIF communitarians: it's no", writes Mr. Mélenchon.

Asked by AFP about this reflection concluding the text, the entourage of Mr. Mélenchon said that the latter meant that he would not be "influenced by lobbies whatever they are, financial or communitarian", unlike , "for example, to the PS which had dissociated itself from the demonstration against Islamophobia of November 10".

An ukaze, or oukase (from the Russian word meaning "order") is according to the Larousse dictionary "an authoritarian decision arbitrary and without appeal".

According to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the head of Labor (Labor Party) "had to undergo without assistance the crude accusation of anti-Semitism through the Chief Rabbi of England and the various networks of influence of Likoud" the right-wing party of the Premier Israeli Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Instead of fighting back, he spent his time apologizing and pledging. In both cases, he displayed a weakness that worried the working class."

Corbyn, whose party was heavily defeated on Thursday by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's conservatives, has been criticized for several years for allowing anti-Semitism to flourish within Labor. Last month, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis denounced the "new poison - approved by management", which "has taken root in the Labor Party".

Defeat, writes Mr. Mélenchon, is "the price to pay for + syntheses + in all latitudes. Those who would like to take us back to France are wasting their time. In any case I will never give in to it for my part. points, German and neoliberal Europe, green capitalism, genuflection before the arrogant ukases of the CRIF communitarians: no. "

"What an intellectual and moral shipwreck. To speak of" genuflection in front of the arrogant ukases of the CRIF communitarians ". Like Corbyn, you will have dishonor and defeat. You deserve both," replied MP Aurore Bergé on Twitter. from LREM.

The reverse side of Labor "must serve as a lesson," writes Mr. Mélenchon, according to whom "Corbyn spent his time being insulted and shot in the back by a handful of Blairist deputies. Instead of fighting back, he composed. "

According to him, Mr. Corbyn should rather have "completely overhauled" his party "instead of composing with him". "To build one's political reasoning according to the points of internal equilibrium is to be mistaken for sure".

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