Yann Moix, Mehdi Meklat: the similarities

Anti-Semitism is fought almost everywhere in the world. Particularly in France, where it is associated with collaboration. No one claims to be anti-Semitic. Even those who make such remarks. It's a taboo, in proportion to the horror of the destruction of Europe's Jews, the Shoah.

The anti-Semite, like hell, is always the other. And when an individual is seized by anti-Semitic thoughts, he or she usually fights them, represses them or denies them. In recent years, as a result of Islamist terrorism, and even before that, following the transfer of political anti-Semitism from Christian Europe to the Arab-Muslim world at the end of the Second World War and at the dawn of the creation of Israel, the anti-Semite, this other, was in a way ready-made, a «divine surprise» relieving the burden of guilt that was heavy to bear: the ’Arab«, the »Muslim«, the two c