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French LFI councilor halts Jewish LGBTQ+ DJ's concert, then goes silent
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On July 20, 2026, opposition councilor Allan Brunon of La France Insoumise (LFI) in Grenoble led a protest that disrupted a concert by DJ Barbara Butch, a Jewish LGBTQ+ artist, after twenty minutes. Brunon expressed pride in the action, citing Butch's signing of an op-ed supporting a contested bill against new forms of antisemitism and her performance at the French embassy in Tel Aviv. LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard defended the protest as targeting political positions. However, by July 23, Brunon and LFI leadership stopped responding to media inquiries, signaling embarrassment and a shift in communication strategy. The incident sparked broader controversy, including a protest by the Union of Jewish Students of France at LFI headquarters in Paris.
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Protest by the Union of Jewish Students of France near the headquarters of La France Insoumise (LFI), in Paris, on July 20, 2026. XAVIER GALIANA/AFP
On Monday, July 20, Allan Brunon was very quick to respond to requests from Le Monde. The opposition councilor for La France Insoumise (LFI) in Grenoble, leader of a protest to disrupt the concert of DJ Barbara Butch at a city festival two days earlier, reiterated his "pride" in having interrupted the performance of the 45-year-old Jewish artist, an LGBTQ+ figure, after twenty minutes.
Three days later, on Thursday, the lead candidate for the "Insoumis" in the March municipal elections left our messages unanswered. A symbol of a change in communication strategy during this intense media sequence, but also of a certain embarrassment within the movement's leadership, which also did not respond to our requests.
At the beginning of the week, despite attacks from all sides, the highest echelons of the coordination stood united in defending their local troops, who had called for a boycott of the DJ. The reason: her signing of a March op-ed in support of the contested bill by MP Caroline Yadan against "new forms of antisemitism" (which the artist had since publicly regretted) as well as a performance at the French embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 12, 2025.
It was therefore for her "political positions" that the artist was the target of this protest, justified LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard on the microphone of Franceinfo on Monday.
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Politique : Toute l’actualité sur Le Monde.fr.Western
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