“I can only dissociate myself from the remarks made which do not correspond to my vision of things and to reality.”
Barely published, this message aroused an avalanche of reactions, including accusations of “negationism“The humanitarian situation in Gaza and calls for resignation.
An erased tweet, a persistent controversy
Faced with the magnitude of the controversy, Nadia Geerts quickly apologized, by calling her publication “imperious“.
“This time, it is my fault, following a post published on X in an irrefightful way, and which I also withdrew after a few hours by recognizing my error. I should have document myself better, it’s obvious“She explains. She nevertheless deplores the intensity of what she describes as”storm” : “What I have seen circulating since yesterday on social networks, however, seems to me completely out of proportion. I am called to my resignation or to my forced departure from various instances where I no longer have my place and this, despite the fact that […] I removed the post problem and admitted my error“, she justifies.
The complaint of Nadia Geerts returned to correctional
“I regret, once again, this foolish post, but the attacks that have been targeting me since say in my eyes much longer on their authors, sometimes eminent progressive intellectuals, than on me“She says.
Reaction of the president of RTBF, Joëlle Milquet
Joëlle Milquet, president of the RTBF board of directors, distanced on this Sunday.
“The comments made by Nadia Geerts are personal remarks that do not engage the board of directors of the RTBF. Personally, it is obvious that I have different opinions and values ​​on many subjects in general and on the situation of Gaza in particular. Personally, I can only dissociate myself from the remarks made which do not correspond to my vision of things and to reality “she confides to Free. “The next RTBF board of directors, on the other hand, will be seized of this issue, will analyze the situation and decide if necessary from the consequences that should be given“, she warns.
“Say that there would be no famine in Gaza, based on images of so-called open restaurants or pancakes in Nutella, is a modern negationism.”
On social networks, the ex-president of Ecolo Zakia Khattabi, was strongly indignant. “”The latest tweet of Nadia Geerts, vice-president of the RTBF board of directors, crosses a red line. Affirm that there would be no famine in Gaza, on the basis of images of so-called open restaurants or Nutella pancakes (in reference to another controversy of a columnist saying that people eat nutella pancakes in Gaza, on which Nadia Geerts returned, editor’s note), is a modern negationism: the one who tackles the memory either, but the present reality“She says.”This reality disqualification strategy has become a weapon. And when it is carried by an official of a public institution supposed to defend pluralism and the integrity of the information, it is all the democracy that vacillates “, she adds.
Contacted, the PS has not yet reacted but should do it soon.
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A defense in the form of “denunciation” on the liberal side
Corentin de Salle, director of the Jean Gol (Think Tank Liberal) center, calls for a form of restraint. “”It is a mistake, she recognized it and apologized. I think the reactions it has aroused are understandable but, for many of them, totally disproportionate“He explains to us.”What she said is extremely clumsy but there is no denial in relation to the drama that is playing in Gaza and the humanitarian disaster […]. It is a horror that goes there but there is human, that’s what it means “, Does he try to justify, before counterattacking.
“What she said is extremely clumsy but there is no denial in relation to the drama that is playing in Gaza and the humanitarian disaster.”
“There are always hatred surges on social networks, which try to ‘demonize’ Nadia Geerts. She is a benevolent and courageous woman. It is someone who has led a fight for feminism and secularism for a long time but what is not forgiven is that she continues that within the MR. What some people consider being an apostasy, betrayal. We clue it at the pillory“, he says. by these words, he evokes”A whole series of people who have an ideological belonging to which Nadia Geerts belonged for a while and who do not forgive her to have gone among the Liberals. We found it after our study on wokism, which aroused many striking reactions“. He therefore denounces this”account settlement“And reiterates the support of the study center he heads to the essayist.
