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

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