France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls is under Jewish influence, a former French foreign minister said Monday.
Valls is “not my cup of tea,” Roland Dumas said in an interview, explaining that the prime minister once attacked him for his opposition to Israel’s policies and his support of the Palestinian cause.
Manuel Valls, then the interior minister of France, arrives at a state dinner with his wife, Anne Gravoin, September 3, 2013. (photo credit: Antoine Antoniol/Getty Images/JTA)
“He has personal alliances, everyone knows that he’s married to someone who has an influence on him,” Dumas said, referring to Valls’s wife, Anne Gravoin, who is Jewish.
Several French politicians criticized Dumas’s comments.
Claude Bartolone, the president of the National Assembly, tweeted that he was “repulsed” by Dumas’s comments, adding that they “reveal an ordinary anti-Semitism” and delusional conspiracy theories.
Also Dominique Bussereau, a member of parliament and former minister from the center-right UMP party, indicated that he considers Dumas’s statement anti-Semitic. It is “inadmissible” and a scandal, he wrote on Twitter. “What a shipwreck!”
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