(For those of you who do not know who Dieudonne is, or what he does, please check my previous article on this topic here).
First, the big news is that the French government has not succeeded in outlawing Dieudonne’s Anti-Zionist Party or the list he has presented for the upcoming European elections. Official polls put the party’s estimated support at 4% which, considering who is running such polls in France, probably means that Dieudo has at least 8-10% support. That is, of course, not enough to make a difference in the European political scene, but that is more than enough to keep openly challenging the Zionist lobby in France.
In fact, Dieudo’s campaign is in full swing. Check out the new posters his list has released:
Translation:
“For a Europe free from censorship, communitarianism (ethnicity based politics – VS) and NATO speculators – The Antisionist List”
I would add that it is rather amazing that such a movement would be allowed to exist anywhere in the West, and even more so in France as the power of the Zionist lobby is far greater in France than it is in the USA or, should I maybe say, it is more brazen, more arrogant, more overt. The one factor which proved decisive in this case is the fact that France, like all European countries, has a multi-party political system whereas the USA has, in essence, only one party split into two vaguely competing factions. A “Dieudonne” in the USA is simply impossible as long as a third party is impossible.
Another interesting feature in the Anti-Zionist Party’s campaign is the support it is getting from French rap singers. Check out these two videos:
Amazing, no? Considering the explosive tensions between the French “banlieue” (suburban-ghettos) and the government, this double endorsement of Dieudonne and his anti-Zionist platform spells out major troubles for the Zionist lobby in France.
As is well known, French banlieues are heavily Black and Maghrebian which potentially gives an ethnic character to any governmental policy towards them. It now appears that Dieudonne’s movement is turning what used to be the alienation of the French youth against the establishment directly at the most powerful component of that establishment: the Zionist lobby. This could very easily repeated in the rest of Europe. I would even argue that this evolution is probably inevitable. This simple truth has now been re-discovered: Zionist is a form of racism (which UN Resolution 3379 clearly declared before being revoked); it is also a form of neo-colonialism, imperialism and it is fundementally anti-democratic.
The other interesting feature of this movement is that is clearly links the Zionist lobby, Israel and the USA into one power structure, what Dieudonne once called “The Axis of Goodness” (again using humor to ridicule and denounce). The Israeli bloodbath is perceived as much as an American or French policy as an Israeli one. This analysis is, of course, fundamentally correct.
Considering how immensely unpopular the USA has become during the Dubya years and his GWOT (Global War on Terror) the merging of the ideas of USA and Zionist in the minds of the French and, possibly, European youth is a very worrying development for the Zionist lobbies everywhere. It would not be incorrect to see all this as a case of “blowback” for what Israel did, and still does, in Gaza.
Dieudonne supporters see themselves as opponents of racism, of course, but also of imperialism, capitalism, globalisation and neo-colonialism. They see countries like Russia, Iran, Venezuela or Bolivia as potential allies. In fact, the number 2 on Diedonne’s list, Alain Soral, spoke of Russia as “our future”. It appears that a growing segment of the alienated French youth has evolved from the mindless rage stage (throwing stones a cops) to a much more conscious and informed opposition to the system in place and its immoral policies.
All this is rather fascinating and I encourage you all to keep a close eye on the situation in France.
For those who speak French, check out the latest press conference of Dieudonne’s list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-pDQFq21A8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj1FNhFAazc
Anti-Zionist Party (in French)
Anti-Zionist List (in French)
When Dieudonne was vilified by the Zionists for his provocative humour, and condemned to rot and to starve, I felt outraged and very sympathetic with him. He had become just another victim of Zionist intolerance…
But when I read about his “romance” with Le Pen, I felt bewildered: what could a man who was vindicating the slavery holocaust have in common with a racist, far right-winger, and chauvinist politician like Le Pen?
Well, I don’t know. And I haven’t investigated about it either, I must acknowledge. So if someone can give me an answer, he or she will be very welcome!
@Enrique: As somebody who has read every single book Le Pen ever wrote I can tell you categorically that neither Le Pen nor the political program of the Front National are racist in any way.
However….
That does not mean that plenty of French racists do not support Le Pen and the National Front. Being anti-immigration and racist are different things, but the line between the two is thin, and some gladly cross it.
Len Pen is, however, a right winger and, if you want, a “chauvinist”. But that is hardly a reason to paint him as a devil the way the corporate media tried to do for years. Let me tell you that Le Pen is FAR more to the Left than, say, Barak Obama and much LESS chauvinistic than Obama. In fact, all the European far right politicians are, in reality, to the LEFT of the most “liberal” US politicians. That is true for economics, as it is true for foreign policy or the use of force.
I don’t think that there is any “romance” between Dieudo and Le Pen. They simply got villified by the same people, using the same methods and they felt a kinship from this.
More generally, you have to realize that the Left/Right divide is meaningless in modern France. In fact, the National Front and the Communists have far more in common with each other than with what I call the “extreme center”. Dieudo, in fact, has federated behind him an amazing mix of ex- National Front and ex -Lefties of various persuasions. He says that the real divide nowadays is pro or anti Zionsits. I can only agree with him here.
Yo! Enrique and Saker, the political comedy of our age is characterized by the confusion about “right” and “left”, as the Saker has pointed out. The “center” is occupied by the world view of American/Israeli imperialism, while those who are classified as being to the far left or the far right have remarkably similar, and generally accurate, takes on what is really going on.
I don’t know of any historical precedent for this, but I suspect if I knew classical literature better, particularly the Roman writers, it would not seem so strange.
Roger Tucker
http://onestate.info
I cant say I know much about French politics but I am surprised to read about the power of the Zionist lobby.
If someone had asked me I would have told them that the power of the Zionist Lobby in the US is possibly even greater than it is in Israel.
I am surprised to hear of a Zionist Lobby being stronger in any other country.
I also know little of communitarian politics but I would have thought LePen personified such an ideology.
AA
In his Book ‘The Wandering Who?’, Gilad Atzmon published the following analysis: Following the 2010 British parliamentary election, there were 24 Jewish MPs – 12 from the Conservatives, 10 from Labour and 2 from the Liberal Democrats. The Jewish population in the UK was 280,000 at the time or 0.46 per cent. There are 650 seats in the House of Commons so, as a proportion, Jewish entitlement was only 3 seats. With 24 seats, Jews were eight times over-represented. Which means that other groups were under-represented…
Dieudonne’s hands are drenched in blood of Iranian students & women now!
Accepting money from Ahmadinejad makes him a criminal like A.N. & Khameneii! Didn’t he see in his trip to Iran how Ahmadinejad’s fascist Basij militia beats unarmed women & students on the streets of Tehran? Was he blind or deaf????SHAME on you Dieudonne!!!
Viva la Iran!
Greetings
Can you post the URLs of the two music videos as I’m having difficulty loading them
Cheers
Ken
some old posts had spam, which got transferred to the new blog. Thank you for pointing it out, we just found 30 from that “person”.