The comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, according to French authorities, is under investigation for inciting racial hatred. They have also urged city officials to consider barring Dieudonné from public performances during his upcoming tour. Prodding the government to act was the video clip of Dieudonné’s current show in Paris, when he mentions the name of Patrick…
French police are searching for a man who performed an anti-Semitic gesture at three locales connected to the murder of Jews. The search for the man, whose identity is not yet known, began last week after a photo of him surfaced online in which he performed the quenelle, a quasi-Nazi salute, in front of the…
(Haaretz) — It’s a word that most of us had never heard until this week. Quenelle: a word that sounds like it could be a sophisticated French pastry or obscure breed of exotic bird, or perhaps the latest bizarre celebrity name for a child. On Monday, it was the third-most-searched-for term on Google. As those…
A French comedian who implied that a Jewish journalist belonged in a gas chamber may be tried for racial incitement for the eighth time. Paris prosecutors on Monday ordered the opening of a criminal investigation against the comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala on suspicion of incitement to racial hatred, according to the news site 20minutes.fr. They…
San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker apologized on Monday after a three-year-old photo surfaced of him making the same anti-Semitic gesture that has landed former France striker Nicolas Anelka in trouble. Known in France as a “quenelle,” the gesture is said to be a reverse Nazi salute and has been made famous by French comedian…
Basketball superstar Tony Parker has reportedly been caught making a Nazi-like salute associated with an anti-Semitic French comedian. The French-born National Basketball Association All-Star was photographed flashing the so-called ‘quenelle,’ which is the trademark gesture of Dieudonne Mbala-Mbala, a controversial French comic who may be banned for promulgating hatred and denying the Holocaust. The SImon…
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