Rosa Bursztein, victim of anti -Semitism, refuses to be “intimidated”

« It is not because my name is Rosa Bursztein that I must be associated with Israel, Netanyahu, to his barbaric policy », Mistogs the 35 -year -old humorist, who considers himself belonging to”Very French atheist Judaism ». While she continues to present her show Cleared On the scene of the Théâtre de l’Ange in Paris, Rosa Bursztein returns to anti -Semitism of which she is the victim in an interview with Parisian Sunday February 2. The stand-upuse notably remembers having seen in mid-December, posters of its tagged show of the mention ” Assassin ».

« It’s amazement. At the time, I had trouble believing it, it is not my kind of sinking into the parano (…) But there, suddenly, it was symbolically the drop of water that makes overflow The vase », She explains, while these posters were stuck on the Morris columns in the capital. This wave of anti -Semitism is not new and has already been lasting for a few months. In early October, Rosa Bursztein had been attacked by Internet users after the publication of a humorous video entitled ” Being a Jew is like being by bike », where she talks about the convergence of struggles and judeity. This video gave rise to an infinity of anti -Semitic comments, which it must have ” massage “, She recalls to Parisian. After this episode, the humorist says he was the victim of a raid on social networks, referring to having lost many subscribers. THE haters would have mobilized en masse to report his account and upset his algorithm in order to make him lose the audience on Instagram.

« I’m not afraid to talk about it »

« Anti -Semitism is not ok, harassment is not ok, essentialization, it is not ok », She protests to the Parisian. « DIn a period when, alas, extremism makes a lot of noise, it is important that others can speak. There, today, I had to express what touches me. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to let myself be intimidated. On the contrary. It means that I am not afraid to talk about it. And that if they try to silence me, it will never work She adds. The humorist, who has repeatedly said that he was not a believer, never approached the conflict to the Middle East, neither in his videos, nor on stage because they are ” Complex, atrocious and schizophrenic subjects for leftist Jews ».