Israel prohibits Jean-Luc Mélenchon from entering its territory

Israel has banned the radical left's 2027 presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon from entering its territory. Last June, the Israeli ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, said he preferred that the next French leader be “anyone rather than Jean-Luc Mélenchon”.

In its program, France Insoumise wishes to “enforce the arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister” Benyamin Netanyahu and suspend the association agreement between the European Union and Israel. If the movement remains faithful to the two-state solution, it nevertheless calls for “taking into account other possibilities for ensuring the internationally recognized individual and collective rights of the Palestinians (egalitarian binational state, for example)”.