The national secretary of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, said he "regretted" the comparison he made between the situation in Gaza and the Warsaw ghetto. “My words aroused criticism and incomprehension.
They hurt, because indeed nothing can be compared to the Shoah,” he declared. The president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) Yonathan Arfi reacted strongly to the comparison. ‘We are heading towards genocide. It is underway,’ FabienRoussel denounced Sunday.