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ANKARA
Opposition lawmakers in France have known as for a boycott of the French tv channel LCI after it aired an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday.
The interview was featured on Le 20h de Darius Rochebin, a program on LCI, which is a part of the TF1 Group.
Opposition politicians and social media customers expressed outrage, labeling Netanyahu a “butcher,” “genocidal” and a “warfare legal.”
They condemned the channel for offering a platform to Netanyahu, whom they accuse of significant human rights violations in opposition to Palestinians.
Antoine Leaument, a lawmaker from the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed, LFI) occasion, expressed his displeasure on X.
He highlighted the irony of a lawmaker being just lately sanctioned within the Nationwide Meeting for displaying a Palestinian flag whereas Netanyahu, the individual directing the “bombing and killing” of those folks, was invited to talk on a serious tv channel.
Thomas Portes, one other LFI lawmaker, accused the French channel of “rolling out the crimson carpet for a warfare legal,” describing the invitation to Netanyahu as “shameful” given the continued violence in opposition to the Palestinian folks.
Manon Aubry, a member of the European Parliament from the LFI occasion, additionally took to X to criticize TF1.
She identified that regardless of an software for an arrest warrant in opposition to Netanyahu by the Worldwide Felony Courtroom (ICC), the channel nonetheless selected to function him on their program.
The requires a boycott have resonated extensively, with many X customers calling for a protest in entrance of the channel’s workplaces earlier than this system was set to air.
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