"Anti-Semitic bastard": at the Socialist Party congress, Jérôme Guedj reopens wounds with Jean-Luc Mélenchon

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Speaking at the Socialist Party congress, the former comrade of the three-time presidential candidate described some of the rebel's remarks as "absolutely unacceptable." LFI is demanding an apology from Olivier Faure.

Jérôme Guedj at the 81st Socialist Party congress in Nancy on June 14. (Romeo Boetzle/AFP)

By calling Jean-Luc Mélenchon an "anti-Semitic bastard" on Saturday, June 14, speaking at the Socialist Party congress in Nancy , Essonne Socialist MP Jérôme Guedj rekindled the divide between the Socialists and the Insoumis. The coordinator of La France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard, responded by demanding a "public apology" from Olivier Faure. The newly re-elected First Secretary of the Socialist Party did not immediately respond to this demand.

"When I tell Jean-Luc Mélenchon that it is not possible and desirable to defend the claim of Palestine 'from the sea to the river,'" said Jérôme Guedj, "I am defending the historic position of the socialists, [...] which is that of the two-state solution, the security of Israel and

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"Anti-Semitic bastard": at the Socialist Party congress, Jérôme Guedj reopens wounds with Jean-Luc Mélenchon

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"Anti-Semitic bastard": at the Socialist Party congress, Jérôme Guedj reopens wounds with Jean-Luc Mélenchon