My friend Peter Sahlins has an excellent article in the French newspaper Libération this week, in response to a nutty proposal by far-right essayist Pierre Hilliard to strip Jews of French citizenship on the grounds that, historically, France only gave citizenship to Catholics. As Peter points out, drawing on
Good commentary. (I do think that if something like the Vendee Massacres occurred today, they would certainly be labeled genocide. Also was not the words exterminate and populicide coined at that time? But this is a subsidiary point. The main lines of your narrative are solid.)
Excellent overview. I wonder what the far right thinks the religion was of the Gauls, the original French? It wasn't Catholicism at first that's for sure....
What a disturbing blog. Thanks David. Zemmour's antisemitism in spite of his Jewishness is in line with the Netanyahu coalition which echoes the conspiracy of a cosmopolitan minded elite undermining the authentic people and is aligning Israel with the various antisemitic radical movements in Europe.
Finally, a confession, from someone teaching at a Catholic institution. I too referred to the events at the Vendée as genocide. I know I should have read your piece about it, but the dog ate my homework. Now I understand the sinister context of this charge. Thanks.
The New French Far Right
Good commentary. (I do think that if something like the Vendee Massacres occurred today, they would certainly be labeled genocide. Also was not the words exterminate and populicide coined at that time? But this is a subsidiary point. The main lines of your narrative are solid.)
Excellent overview. I wonder what the far right thinks the religion was of the Gauls, the original French? It wasn't Catholicism at first that's for sure....
What a disturbing blog. Thanks David. Zemmour's antisemitism in spite of his Jewishness is in line with the Netanyahu coalition which echoes the conspiracy of a cosmopolitan minded elite undermining the authentic people and is aligning Israel with the various antisemitic radical movements in Europe.
Finally, a confession, from someone teaching at a Catholic institution. I too referred to the events at the Vendée as genocide. I know I should have read your piece about it, but the dog ate my homework. Now I understand the sinister context of this charge. Thanks.