Raphaël Glucksmann’s refusal to use the word ‘genocide’ divides France’s left

Raphaël Glucksmann, the MEP who this week decisively won the primary to choose a centre-left candidate for France’s 2027 presidential election, has worked more than most politicians on the issue of genocide. In his former life as a documentary maker he made Kill Them All!, a film that argued France held some blame for the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda. He became a leading voice against the persecution of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China after entering politics and winning elect