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Has Doorbraak joined the herd of the « antizionist » deniers ?
Publié le 12 avril 2024
par Yves Coleman

According to a recent article published in Dutch and not translated in English (“Are the Gaza genocide and the Holocaust comparable ?”), Doorbraak activists, who have held a very firm line against anti-Semitism for many years, have apparently converted to the “decolonial” ideology that (...)

On some deceptive “reasoning”of the Hamas-compatible left
Publié le 19 décembre 2023
par Yves Coleman
How Eric Hazan and Alain Badiou despise and hide the achievements of a century-old debate on Zionism and left antisemitism (2012)
Publié le 5 octobre 2023
par Yves Coleman

[The two authors wrote a 64-page “book”, with large characters, entitled L’antisémitisme partout. Aujourd’hui en France (Antisemitism everywhere, today in France) and published by La Fabrique, a company owned by Eric Hazan in 2012 ? It was translated by Verso in 2013, jointly with two (...)

The rise of Muslim religion in France and its negative political consequences for the Left (2005)
Publié le 20 septembre 2023
par Yves Coleman

To begin with, I have to confess that it’s almost impossible to have an objective and neutral view about the theme of this speech.

There are at least three objective reasons :

1) Nobody agrees on the exact number of Muslims in France. For a very simple reason : the law forbids collecting (...)

The hijab and the Left (2004)
Publié le 20 septembre 2023
par Yves Coleman

This text was presented in 2004 at the AWL summer school in London.

Dear comrades,

I would like first to thank the AWL for having invited me to this debate. I have been asked to present the recent discussion about the hijab and the law prohibiting what French lawmakers call "conspicuous (...)