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A Jewish Far-Right Pundit Splits the French Jewish Community as He Rises

Roger Cohen, The New York Times, October 25, 2021

Éric Zemmour, eyeing the presidency, tries to rehabilitate the wartime Vichy regime as part of a campaign filled with provocations.

Eric Zemmour’s Desecration of the Name

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 25, 2021

Already, the candidate’s violations of French Jewish moral values are perilous and obscene.

Israel

Unfailingly present whenever Israel is in danger, Bernard-Henri Lévy has rolled up his sleeves since the 1970s to find peaceful solutions. But when the philosopher thinks about Israel, he is also thinking about the entire world. And when he becomes involved in Bosnia, Georgia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, or Afghanistan that involvement reflects his thinking about Israel. The post-Holocaust principle of “Never Again” inhabits his words and deeds with respect to Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

Eyeless in Gaza

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, May 21, 2021

Do I support a Palestinian state run by a fundamentalist terror cult that targets civilians? No, I don’t.

In the Footsteps of Tocqueville

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Atlantic, May 01, 2005

How does America look to foreign eyes? This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, our keenest interpreter. We asked another Frenchman to travel deep into America and report on what he found.

The Genius of Judaism and Bernard-Henri Lévy

Adam Kirsch, Tablet, January 20, 2017

The morally minded French public intellectual applies 21st-century chutzpah to our radical age.

Why Durban IV must be boycotted

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2021

On paper, the Durban Conference was supposed to recommit to the fight against “racism, xenophobia and intolerance,” but in reality it it was the occasion of an inexcusable three-faceted failure.

The Genius of Judaism

Published in January 2017

“The Genius of Judaism” is a breathtaking new vision and understanding of what it means to be a Jew. Lévy’s most passionate book, and in many ways his most personal, is a great, profound, and hypnotic intellectual reckoning by one of the keenest and most insightful writers in the world.

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