Entries by Guillaume Durocher

The Culture of Critique in France: A review of Anne Kling’s books on Jewish influence, Part 3

Part 1 Part 2 Communists and Collaborators: The Dark Origins of Franco-Jewish Ethnic Lobbies The LICRA and the CRIF, and their ancestor organizations, have been influencing French political life since before the Second World War. The LICRA, originally called the League Against Pogroms, was founded in 1927 by the Communist Jew Bernard Lecache, an early […]

The Culture of Critique in France: A review of Anne Kling’s books on Jewish influence, Part 2

Part 1. What are the LICRA and the CRIF? The CRIF is an explicit Jewish ethnic lobby made up of organizations officially representing 100,000 Jews (one in six French Jews or 0.1% of the French population). Esther Benbass, a Franco-Turko-Israeli historian and member of the pro-Palestinian Greens, has said of the CRIF: What is the […]

The Culture of Critique in France: A review of Anne Kling’s books on Jewish influence, Part 1

Anne Kling, La France LICRAtisée: Enquête au pays de la Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l’Antisémitisme Paris: Mithra, 2007 (first published by Déterna, 2006) Anne Kling, Le CRIF: Un lobby au cœur de la République Paris: Mithra, 2010 and 2013 High quality critical study of elite Jewish communities, and their ethnic activism and biases, […]

Éric Zemmour: SOS Racisme, a case study in anti-nationalist Jewish activism

By Éric Zemmour, from his Le Suicide français, translated by Guillaume Durocher SOS Racisme’s famous logo: “Don’t touch my pal,” urging Europeans and Jews (somewhat patronizingly) to protect their Black or Muslim “pal.” Translator’s note: It is common among American readers to suppose that although Jewish groups are quite powerful and are a critical force for […]

Éric Zemmour: The Rise of the Shoah as the Official Religion of the French Republic

Translation by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s note: Éric Zemmour is a Sephardic Jewish French journalist and pundit, no doubt the “most nationalist” voice allowed on French television, all but telling people to vote for the Front National. I found his bestselling book Le Suicide français, while sometimes false or circumspect, surprisingly frank on certain issues. The […]