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Orbán vs. Merkel: Can Europe’s Conservative Populists End the Migrant Crisis?

One of the great lies — endlessly repeated — of the world’s liberal-plutocratic media is that nation-states are “too small” or “powerless” to manage any major problems on their own in the age of globalization. This assertion is meant fundamentally to justify national authorities’ abdication of responsibility and legitimize the transfer of power to transnational […]

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Paul-Éric Blanrue and the Jews: From Celebration to Censorship

Paul-Éric Blanrue is a French writer whose most recent books have documented Jewish power networks in France, especially their relationship with the center-right under Nicolas Sarkozy and with the “far-right” Front National under the Le Pen family.[1] The thesis of these books, meticulously documented, is that Jewish influence in elite French political and cultural circles […]

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The Culture of Critique in France: A review of Anne Kling’s books on Jewish influence, Part 5

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 “The Right to Difference”: Balkanizing France Just as Jews in the U.S. have a leading role — in Hollywood and pop culture generally — in defining what is “American,” so have French Jews pushed to redefine Frenchness away from an ethnic or even an assimilationist definition, towards […]

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The Culture of Critique in France: A review of Anne Kling’s books on Jewish influence, Part 4

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 … . […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]