"After the 'Jewish conspiracy' of the 1930s, here comes the 'Muslim conspiracy'": Mélenchon again criticizes the report on the Muslim Brotherhood

Jean-Luc Mélenchon is furious. The day after Emmanuel Macron convened a Defense Council meeting to examine the intelligence services' report on the Muslim Brotherhood—the contents of which were revealed Tuesday morning on Le Figaro 's website—the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) once again denounced the importance given to this document, even though it damningly exposes the influence of this Islamist movement in France.

After having castigated on X the meeting organized at the Élysée on the subject, which he sees as a pledge given to "Islamophobia" and which would endorse "the delusional theses of Retailleau and Le Pen" , the three-time presidential candidate persists and signs this Thursday. In a long blog post, he attacked the rhetoric of the political and media ecosystem of the "center right" which " (would) make Islamophobia a cause of the State under the pretext of "Muslim Brotherhood"" . Going so far as to establish a historical parallel, frequently used on the far left: "After "the Jewish conspiracy" of the 1930s, here is the "Muslim conspiracy" , wrote Jean-Luc Mélenchon, thus equating the virulent and societal anti-Semitism of the last century with the State's fight against Islamist entryism in 2025.

While a large part of the political class - from the central bloc to the National Rally (RN) and the Republicans (LR) - welcomed the report with gravity, the former deputy of Marseille refuses to adhere to what he considers to be "conspiracy fantasies" around the Brotherhood. A document that Jean-Luc Mélenchon describes as a "disastrous gadget" , reducing this inventory of Islamism to a simple "Islamophobic electoral clientelism in the direction of the extreme right (which) endangers the country" .

"The far right makes its way when its slogans and fantasies contaminate the entire political field," he insists, before assuring, at the risk of being accused of communitarianism for electoral purposes: "Millions of people are disgusted to see their religion pointed at." Despite the fact that the 73-page report has been approved by several recognized specialists in the fraternity, such as Hugo Micheron or the CNRS researcher Florence Bergeaud-Blackler , Jean-Luc Mélenchon also questions the way in which it is interpreted. According to him, the document "does not always say what it is made to say and what it says is often highly debated by experts on the subject."