by Pier Marton | Feb 7, 2013 | Antisemitism, France, Juif, Music
… pour Piaf de 26 chansons dont notamment J’m’en fous pas mal, Et moi, Une dame, La fête continue et celles des plus connues L’Accordéoniste et À quoi ça sert l’amour. Fréhel, Damia, Lys Gauty, Charles Trenet (Y’a d’la Joie),...
by Pier Marton | Dec 23, 2012 | Antisemitism, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Politics, Quotes, Shoah
Who is a Jew? (1954) If it is not race, what then makes a Jew? Religion? I am an atheist. Jewish nationalism? I am an internationalist. In neither sense am I, therefore, a Jew. I am, however, a Jew by force of my unconditional solidarity with the persecuted and...
by Pier Marton | Dec 3, 2012 | Antisemitism, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Magyar, Politics, Racism
Mi Magyarok megvédjük Zsidó honfitársainkat. We the Hungarians will defend our compatriots. Nous les Hongrois nous défendrons nos compatriotes. Viktor Orban Viktor, Miniszterelnök, Prime Minister of Hungary, Premier Ministre de Hongrie. Said in the Hungarian...
by Pier Marton | Nov 7, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, France, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Middle-East, Review
Lorraine Lévy: I wanted to make a film about openings and hope/Je voulais faire un film d’ouverture, un film d’espoir. My review: I too could say “provocative and moving” as other critics have said, but I would rather not. Sometimes life takes...
by Pier Marton | Oct 29, 2012 | Antisemitism, France, History, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars
… a sizable section of the European left has been reluctant to take a clear stand when anti-Zionism spills over into anti-Semitism… Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the militant group Hezbollah, famously commented: “If we searched the entire world for a...
by Pier Marton | Oct 1, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Highlights, History, Ideas, Jewish, Politics, Quotes, Shoah
(from “Why Auschwitz” – in an “auto-interview”) It is the duty of everyone to meditate on what happened. Everybody must know or remember that Hitler and Mussolini, when they spoke in public, were believed, admired, adored like gods. They...