The rapper Médine, whose tweet deemed anti-Semitic had caused controversy during the summer, again defended himself on Saturday from all hatred during a debate organized at the LFI summer days where he was warmly welcomed by rebellious activists .
Two days after being applauded at the EELV universities – an invitation that had yet torn the party apart – the rapper from Le Havre returned during a debate with the head of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, on this controversy that he deemed “awful”.
“Not only am I not anti-Semitic, but I have also been fighting anti-Semitism for 20 years at the closest, on the ground,” he repeated.
“I don’t intend to wait until they give me a license to fight anti-Semitism,” he added.
A message on X (ex-Twitter) qualifying the essayist Rachel Khan – Jewish and granddaughter of a deportee – as “resKHANpée” had caused controversy before her arrival at EELV.
Asked by the public about the “paternalistic” attitude that officials of the environmentalist party would have had towards him, the rapper denounced “misplaced attitudes on the part of people who () invited him” but assures not to s to be “intimidated”.
In front of an audience committed to his cause, he returned to his political career, intrinsically linked to his rap, according to his explanations.
“I am from this school of rappers who have carried a political word without even having the ambition. It is a political word that is consubstantial with this music, with people who come from working-class neighborhoods, because they face injustices social,” he said.
“I don’t have a community agenda, I don’t want special meals in the communes, I want healthy food for all the children,” he detailed to applause.
“The left has long recovered the artistic word, it has created mistrust”, still considered the singer, calling for a “mutual work of deconstruction”, between rap and the left.
The man who said he voted last year for Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the presidential election was acclaimed on several occasions, in particular when he spoke of the “causes of the wretched of the earth”, of his fight against extreme right or fights of “LBGTQIA, feminists and social movements”.
08/26/2023 20:12:11 – Châteauneuf-sur-Isère (France) (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
