The Left Would Not Survive a Division Over Anti-Semitism
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The modern, democratic, republican and social left built most of its references, values and representations at the time of the Dreyfus affair . As we know, the word "left", in political vocabulary, comes from the session of August 28, 1789 of the Constituent Assembly devoted to the royal veto. But it was at the time of the "J'accuse" of Zola, of the book Les Preuves de Jaurès , and of the frenzied activism of Clemenceau that the left which fights against all injustices and for
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