In the turbulent landscape of French activism, Nora Bussigny's Les nouveaux antisémites: Enquête d'une infiltrée dans les rangs de l'ultra-gauche (Albin Michel, 2025) delivers a stark undercover report. As a Franco-Moroccan journalist, Bussigny immersed herself for a year after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, blending into rallies, Telegram groups, and conferences across Paris, Brussels, Columbia University, and Sciences Po. Her 198-page account unmasks how the Palestinian cause unites feminists, LGBT militants, decolonials, and Islamists in a "convergence of struggles" against "Zionists": a coded term for Jews that fuels orchestrated chaos.
Bussigny's findings shock with their contradictions. At a 2024 trans rights rally in Paris, militant Sasha Yaropolskaya proclaims: "Mon corps n’est jamais vraiment mien qu’au bref moment où, marteau en main, adrénaline qui se mélange aux œstrogènes, je fracasse les vitres d’une banque ou d’un énième complice d’un génocide colonial." Bussigny highlights the irony: trans activists smash "colonial" symbols while overlooking Hamas's torture of LGBTQ+ people in Gaza. "The ultra-left fights LGBT discrimination," she writes, "but fails to see how its decolonialism will lead to its downfall."
Feminist events reveal selective outrage. During International Women's Day marches, crowds chant for Palestinian "resistance" but ignore October 7 rapes, where women were deemed "war booty." One activist justifies: "We must avoid nourishing anti-Arab racism." Bussigny infiltrates Brussels gatherings glorifying Hamas and the PFLP: terrorist-designated entities. Speakers endorse armed struggle amid applause. "This convergence unites around a common enemy: the Jew, or rather the 'Zionist.' It crystallizes, obsesses, galvanizes crowds calling for revolution, or dare I say, intifada, from Paris to Gaza," Bussigny observes.
Universities breed a "promo intifada." At Sciences Po, pro-Hamas groups harass Jewish students, inscribing swastikas and hosting Rima Hassan, who evades hostage queries. Columbia's SJP ties to Islamist funding. Bussigny exposes Wikipedia edits whitewashing Hamas sympathizers, transforming the site into propaganda.
The feminism-terrorism link horrifies most. In taxpayer-funded halls, Bussigny encounters Samidoun: banned in Germany for Hamas connections, mingling with feminists. Influencer Habibitch deems October 7 a "cultural response." Rally cries echo: "Sionistes, fascistes, c’est vous les terroristes!"
Rima Hassan embodies the "Jewish obsession." Bussigny's closing chapter probes her ascent: from claimed refugee status to LFI MEP, with unverified paternal links to Iranian-Syrian missile production, Jordanian funding, and praise for Hamas's Yahya Sinwar. Hassan envisions a Palestine where Jews remain only in submission. "Je serai une grande de ce monde ou une clocharde," she posted prophetically. Bussigny warns Hassan's extremism could mobilize ultra-left voters for 2026 municipals and 2027 presidentials, targeting "colonial left" opponents.
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