France Analysis

Alain Soral, ’extreme right« and that's it?

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written by Antoine Menusier · August 15, 2020 · 0 comment

Is the polemicist convicted of anti-Semitism, and now on trial for racism, really the epitome of an ultra-right-wing thinker? Doesn't he also have a bit of the left in his mix? What's at stake when it comes to defining extremes, at a time when progressivism sometimes has totalitarian overtones. 

French ideologue Alain Soral, who sees himself as an outcast and thinks like one, was indicted again on July 30. Again on the same charge, incitement to racial hatred, in addition to a call for a «fascist revolution». This time, the courts are not accusing or condemning him for the anti-Semitic remarks he has made a specialty of, but for words that could harm black people - «the Black», described as a «predatory parasite driven to hatred to the bitter end» in one of the videos published on his «Egalité et réconciliation» platform. At the same time, we learn that

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Antoine Menusier
Antoine Menusier

Journalist, essayist and author of «Livre des indésirés - Une histoire des Arabes en France» (Editions du Cerf, 2019), Antoine Menusier contributes to Regard Libre as an editorial guest.