Guillaume Meurice described Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as “a sort of Nazi without a foreskin ” on France Inter. This “ joke ” equating a Jewish leader to a Hitler henchman, uttered by a convinced activist of the Palestinian cause, would trigger a storm of indignation on the news channels, but also harassment on the social networks.
In his essay In the Ear of the Cyclone, the comedian takes responsibility, regrets nothing and recounts in a plaintive tone the media tornado of which he was the subject.