Emmanuel Macron responds to singer Zaho de Sagazan who denounces the situation in Gaza and asks the President to stop using her songs

In a text published on her Instagram account, the young woman invited the President of the Republic not to "use the words of artists" for his political communication if he "does not act for the lives they defend."

In a column published Saturday, July 26, on Instagram, singer Zaho de Sagazan denounced the gravity of the situation in the Gaza Strip. Taking a clear stance on the issue, she also expressly called on Emmanuel Macron to stop using her songs in his political communications.

The President responded to him on Sunday, July 27, on his own Instagram account with a text beginning with these sentences: " I read your words. I hear them. I feel them."

" I have always sought to bring joy in my own way ," Zaho de Sagazan wrote in her message. "That's often what we artists expect . But today, I can no longer be content with warming hearts without denouncing what is collapsing around us. I can no longer sing about the beauty of life without naming the injustice that we allow to take hold."

The 25-year-old singer, who is also a writer and composer , does not hesitate to engage politically in this text, describing a Palestinian people " bombed, starved, displaced, humiliated by the Israeli government, led today by a far-right coalition." She believes that in the face of this tragedy, " this world looks the other way. Or worse: it justifies, relativizes, temporizes."

Addressing President Macron directly, who has repeatedly used her song, "The Symphony of Lightning ," in social media posts, she wrote: " While you celebrate 'light,' sensitivity, compassion, under the clouds, a few kilometers from our home, children are living in hell." She added: " Don't use the words of artists if you don't act for the lives they defend."

" Like you, I refuse to allow pain to be covered by silence ," Emmanuel Macron replied in his message. " Nothing can justify indifference in the face of the collapse of a people ." The President added that France "provides no military aid, either direct or indirect, to the operations conducted by the Israeli army in Gaza."

He explains that he is fighting " in the name of France " so that " this unbearable violence against civilians ceases, and that aid can enter ." " There is no double standard. No life is worth less than another," concludes President Macron.

Many artists, notably those involved in the Artists4Ceasefire collective, have called in recent weeks for mobilization to urgently obtain a ceasefire in Gaza.