Terruquear
Here in France, we’re getting ready to go to the polls to elect our European MPs. There are some 18 different lists. A lot of them are minor token lists or single-issue lists. Among the four big players, three offer unconditional support to the genocidal Netanyahu regime in Israel. La France Insoumise, alone, stands with Gaza….and boy is it taking flak from the establishment media who would rather support the fascist far right than piss off the capitalists!
We have observed this process so many times before. It’s what happened to Jeremy Corbyn in the UK. He was conveniently smeared with unfounded accusations of antisemitism and replaced by an establishment-friendly labor candidate.
It is something Latin America is very familiar with, after decades of CIA interference, to the extent that there is actually a Spanish word for it : terruquear. This word was coined in Peru, where leftist parties and indigenous peoples were relentlessly smeared by the Fujimorists. Terruquear is to falsely accuse leftist opponents of being terrorist sympathizers to delegitimize them. This is what’s happening to La France Insoumise.
That said, a lot of people are not swallowing it anymore. So, we’ll see.
If you live and vote in France, see you at the polls on Sunday. I for one will be voting for Manon Aubry.
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