Diane Richard, a left-wing feminist activist and lesbian, describes in her book 'Lutter sans se trahir' her break with the movement that refuses to defend Israeli women after October 7. A member of the Nous Toutes collective, she expresses deep disillusionment with the blindness to antisemitism and double standards within feminism. Her journey, marked by total commitment, reveals internal tensions in contemporary activism.
Diane Richard, from Paris's 15th and 16th arrondissements and educated in a private Catholic school, fully committed to activism at Sciences Po, where she became a feminist, vegetarian, and left-wing. She spent her third university year on an American campus and identified as lesbian. Describing herself as a 'chomâctiviste', she devoted her life to the Nous Toutes collective, founded in 2018 by Caroline de Haas in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
Over time, however, Richard observed that feminism was increasingly influenced by identity-based antiracism, leading to a hierarchy of victims based on skin color and neglect of antisemitism. Her book, published by Stock, details this disillusionment, particularly intensified after the events of October 7, 2023, when the movement hesitated to support Israeli women.
Her first shock came during the death of Nahel in 2023, where feminist activists took positions that troubled her. Eugénie Bastié, in her chronicle for Le Figaro, highlights this intimate account of an activist 'crushed by her camp', underscoring the militant purity prevailing on the left and the internal contradictions of contemporary feminism.
