As Emmanuel Macron took to the global stage to recognise Palestine at the UN, over 80 defiant left-wing mayors back home turned their town halls into protest zones, draping them with Palestinian flags in open rebellion against a government ban. They call it solidarity. In truth, it’s brazen political theatre. Outgoing interior minister Bruno Retailleau had rightly ordered prefects to halt this, declaring public spaces must stay neutral, not tools for the left’s divisive games.

By turning their buildings into platforms for international causes, town halls betray the very neutrality that holds the Republic together

In France, raising a Palestinian flag has become less about the Middle East than domestic politics, a way for the left-wing to posture. Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumis

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