"Anti-Sarko, pro-Palestinian ... The phenomenal success of" indignation you "the envy and criticism. Under the Stéphane Hessel dossier on "the Nouvel Observateur this week, Aude Lancelin reported on these very French polemic
" A year and a half before the presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy is not yet known the name of the main leftist candidate it will face. But he finds himself already facing a very embarrassing statue of the commander. Stéphane Hessel, 93, an opponent who has neither power nor circumscribed party set, only the moving force that provide millions of readers will have unsurpassed resistance conferred by the first time in a country that did never recovered from seeing a large part of its elite work and stubborn determination to defend the "bedrock of social gains" from the Liberation. The famous "French model" already started twenty years, the president elected in 2007 on the slogan the "break" had been strong wind before being temporarily deterred by the violence of the global financial meltdown.
Far from being settled, Hessel fever continues to gain ground. January 22, a real crowd applauded standing dialogue of John Daniel and Stephane Hessel, during open the "Nouvel Observateur" in Paris, college Bernardine. February 7, yet, thousands of people flocked to the call of Mediapart to hear the author of "indignation you" at the Theatre de la Colline, while others Sites relentlessly pounded the "old man unworthy, guilty of having given hope to the left. We assured him, however, outrage at 3 euros in the business would not survive the end of the year. "Santa Claus good conscience" would end up like an old abandoned tree "with balls and garlands on the sidewalk," and mocked a columnist of "Liberation" which had been less in unison heavy thoughts Eric Zemmour clubbing a "grandpa Hessel" on RTL radio. Yet it would refrain entirely to think "phenomenon Hessel" seeing it as a marketing coup. Nothing less predictable this success, however, nothing more explicable as the purpose of "indignation you!" plunges far, far away in the French mythologies.
Deriving three hours of talks with the co-founder of Native Publishing, Sylvie Crossman, this brief text response has been carved up for three months with all sorts of attorneys as if each word had been chopped, weighed , maliciously larded calculations suspects. As fast as either "indignation you", starting with its handling of the Israeli-Palestinian issue to which we return, the most important thing to grasp gesture. His solemn secret "deep elegance" says the historian Nicolas Offenstadt who welcomes this "neo-nationalist discourse blow to a Guaino Henry or Patrick Bush, Sarkozy has led to power." The triumph of this Stéphane Hessel is a bit posthumous revenge by Guy Môquet, exploited for the benefit of partisan causes, gadgetry by a president who does not share these commitments.
The true story of "indignation you" indeed begins shortly before the plebiscite election in May 2007, in a high place of the Resistance in Haute-Savoie. "If I am elected president, I will come back every year shelf Glières" said Nicolas Sarkozy, come amid a forest of cameras to be anointed by the blood of the guerrillas. Some survivors protest. No question that this place, where 149 of them fell against the occupier, the rock becomes Solutré the new head of state.
A panel mounts, Citizens Resistance yesterday and today, who decides to hold an annual celebration of its own, ever more popular on the sidelines of a presidential visit, ever more discreet. The five-year term bling has indeed taken the meantime a strange twist. All-out attack on public service, media pressure, invention néoterrorisme the grocer, businessman Jean Sarkozy, then Eric Woerth, the whole background of "great debate" patriotic dubious defectors from the left smoke from operations, respect for the presidential office collapsed and soon global crisis hitting the nation already very rough ride.
Then Stephane Hessel arises. Guest May 17, 2009 at plateau Glières there tonne against "scandalous legislation that talks about a tort of solidarity." He invokes the program of the National Council of Resistance, clandestine text of 1944, and recalls France in its particular destiny of country "which has been the start of human rights in 1789. " The emotion is intense. The words are simple, but long ago that the political or intellectual elites do not formulate longer clearly. In the crowd, Sylvie Crossman, his future publisher. She decides to contact Hessel for a digest of his speech. The bomb is primed. She called "Unworthy you!".
Another piece of the same tenor, written to mark the 60th anniversary of RSS by thirteen strong, including Raymond Aubrac, Stephane Hessel and Germaine Tillion, already circulated in recent months in the country in a curious way. A self-proclaimed invisible Committee (different the one who signed the "Uprising coming" and was involved in the case Tarnac) post anonymously on the forums, mailboxes. The words of the old Gaullist and communist tribe, united at the end of the war in the hope of a better tomorrow, were trying to find a way on the Net. Hessel give them a hearing.
a time of global competition, nothing more grotesque than this hackneyed invocation of a program, obviously tired, since we intend to repeat in a loop, notably in "Le Figaro" which evokes elegance with a "Mendes cacochyme. "All that effort to be promoted a true elite, not by birth but of merit, and constantly renewed by the contributions popular "such an extract enough yet to show itself to the crying of RSS news. Not to mention the need to work to press freedom worthy of the name, "independent with respect to the state and money power." Their return by Hessel would hardly have provoked a "state affair", nor justify the intervention of Prime Minister himself January 10 ("The outrage is not a mode of thought").
Except that the voice comes precisely from the Hessel heart of the French state machine, high-level diplomacy, where the reviews are usually very coded. Unless it is a social democratic reformer to whom no Stalinist past can be criticized. Hence the effect of collective stupor, the transition to a scale unprecedented in the history of publishing and also the unprecedented brutality of his opponents.
To this is added into effect soon came another controversy, highly flammable. Two pages of "indignation you" evoke the commitment of pro-Palestinian Hessel, who has been radicalized Cast Lead 2009. The author does not call for a boycott of "products manufactured in the settlements," but everyone knows it is a symbolic support of this controversial campaign aimed at getting Israel to respect international treaties. The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France mobilizes. Claude Lanzmann going to say in "The Point" that the alleged "hatred of Israel" by Stéphane Hessel "seems to guarantee its longevity." Stakhanovite the infamous charge, essayist Pierre-Andre Taguieff excels once again trying to smear the past policy of Hessel deported to Buchenwald. "In Nicolas Donin, which encouraged to burn the Talmud, Stéphane Hessel discloses a number of people who have distant Jewish ancestry, went to the enemy, "says he end of October on Radio J. So many foolish calumnies against which fought tooth and nail relatives of Hessel, including Dominique Vidal, whose own uncle was deported to Buchenwald and whose grandfather died at Dachau.
Nevertheless, the venom spreads and sincere people were deceived. On the occasion of a lecture by Alain Finkielkraut in progressive Jewish circles Bernard Lazare, February 8, room is really worried that we heard speak on the case Hessel. This is he wrong to endorse the boycott operation? It is indeed possible to find it unpleasant and even dangerous, in that it amounts to legitimize a form of collective punishment. Hessel fervent support as Debray sticks also carefully away, "for fear of slipping into a global boycott and indiscriminate."
remains that at present it is the lynch mob of media Hessel, who often pay more attention to their effects sleeves that fate of Israel, are an ill wind blowing on all these issues. Once again the suspicion of anti-Semitism here handled with a lightness staggering against a man who, on January 22, spoke publicly "the memory of the joy felt when, unanimously, the Security Council said that finally, after centuries of wandering and persecution, the Jews would have their state. "To our knowledge, this is however the first time this cowardly weapon of deterrence is used against a major figure in the Resistance. Another day and another subject with indignation. "
Aude Lancelin
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