FRENCH COMIC HAS FUN WITH HOLOCAUST STORY AND U.S. ALLIANCE WITH ISRAEL

We should point out that, of course, anyone who would ridicule mainline opinion about either the Holocaust story or the U.S. alliance with Israel would be an "anti-semite." Goes without saying, yet those who are ready to say it appear to be all over the place.


By Steven Plaut
FrontPageMagazine.com
May 2, 2006

France, formerly the nation of Balzac and Voltaire, is today best represented by Dieudonné, an anti-Semite and self-styled "comic."

Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala (his full name) is the French son of a British mother and a Cameroonian father. (You can see his poster here.) Beloved by many on the French Left, Dieudonné is so popular in modern France that he is planning to run for President in 2007.
Not the least significant reason for Dieudonné’s appeal is his eagerness to pander to the anti-Israel prejudices of French audiences. In one of his more notorious acts, he dressed up as a uniformed Israeli settler in the Palestinian occupied territories, gave Nazi salutes, and called upon young people to “join the American-Zionist axis.” (Read more)