MPs from the French Communist party and from La France Insoumise (France Unbowed, LFI) left the chamber of the National Assembly after right-wing MP Meyer Habib accused them of antisemitism.
Habib was asking a question to Prime Minister Bernard Philippe about support by left-wing MPs for Palestinian terrorists.
“When the Quai d’Orsay (French foreign ministry) declares it hopes for the freedom of Salah Hamouri, I am ashamed,” Habib said. Salah Hamouri is a terrorist, not a political prisoner, a leader of the PFLP responsible for the attack on the Rue Copernic Synagogue, the carnage in a synagogue in Jerusalem, five Jews stabbed in the middle of their prayers, like Father Hamel was in his church. Is it this antisemitic terrorist that France wants to free?”
After the MPs left the chamber, LFI MP Clémentine Autain said that Habib should stop “exploiting parliamentary questions and asking them in ways which are totally unacceptable.”
