Antisemitism, Israel and the Soral phenomenon in France posted by Richard Seymour

"In France (1) only the far right used to refer to a "Jewish lobby" - a phrase that combines standard anti-semitic fantasies about Jewish finance, media control and power; the term is the contemporary equivalent of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (2). Now for the first time it has been used by a Jewish writer, Elisabeth Schemla, founding editor of the Proche-Orient.info website, a former top journalist on Le Nouvel Observateur who is also author of a book that was highly uncritical about Ariel Sharon (3)..." (continue)

"Visitors to Alain Soral’s Egalité et Réconciliation (Equality and Reconciliation, E & R) website see pictures of Hugo Chávez, Che Guevara, Muammar Gaddafi, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro and Vladimir Putin on the left of the masthead. Joan of Arc and Soral are on the right. The site, with its motto “leftwing on labour, but rightwing values”, is France’s 269th most popular, a few places behind the TV magazine Télérama."  (continue)