LE FIGARO. - The desecration of the Oradour-sur-Glane memorial does not at first glance concern the Jews. Yet you react. Did you hesitate to do it?
Francis KALIFAT. - I was outraged by this abject act. It is quite natural to condemn. It's spontaneous, I didn't ask myself whether or not I should react, especially since the Crif fight is not Judeo-centered.
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Some might accuse you of "recovering" this misfortune of Oradour ...
There is no recovery! Faced with such abjection, I react as a human being, as a Frenchman and as a Jew. Three elements of my personality which lead me not to remain inert and to demand, once again, zero tolerance against revisionism, which is poisonous.
Holocaust denial has its headliners: yesterday the Faurisson, today the Dieudonné, the Soral, but these people are rarely condemned
Francis KalifatDon't these negationisms have different purposes?
There is no difference between a Holocaust denier and a denier from Oradour-sur-Glane or another genocide. They are the same, which feed negationism
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