Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 “At the Heart of Debates” on Censorship The CRIF and the LICRA have assumed a leading role in undermining free speech in France. As then-CRIF President Richard Prasquier said in February 2010: The Jews are at the heart of debates where limits on free expression are asked … . […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Viktor Orbán: “We let go of the delusion of multiculturalism before it turned Hungary into a refugee camp” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave his State of the Nation address recently. It is a remarkable text by the standards of our time. The average Western leader will obsess about gross domestic product, free trade, “European […]
