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Gilles-William Goldnadel: "Is it really the far right that threatens freedom of expression?"

2021-11-22T11:34:27.973Z


FIGAROVOX / CHRONICLE - Without denying the seriousness of the threats of the far right against the press, the lawyer Gilles-William Goldnadel considers that this phenomenon is derisory compared to the actions of the radical left against freedom of expression .


Gilles-William Goldnadel is a lawyer and essayist.

Each week, he deciphers the news for FigaroVox.

In a book to be published on December 1,

Manual of Resistance Against Far-Left Fascism

, I support in a documented manner that “the fascists have changed sides”.

In matters of intolerance, violence, censorship, racism and anti-Semitism in particular.

Yet, against blinding factual evidence, the media extreme left continues, with undeniable success, its victim story of a largely ghostly “far right” that threatens journalists.

This is how

Mediapart

and

Street Press

, copiously relayed, evoke threats from the ultra right against journalists.

I am not here to say that threats do not exist, but I am here to say that it takes a huge dose of intellectual blindness to refuse to see these horses of the media, political or academic left who trample freedom with their big hooves. to talk or inform.

Gilles-William Goldnadel

I am not saying here that threats do not exist, but I am saying that it takes a huge dose of intellectual blindness, a sense of disproportion and a selective mind to focus on a lark and refuse to see these horses. of the media, political or academic left who trample with their big hooves the freedom to speak or to inform.

I will only call my reader a witness to the most recent examples to date.

Thus, last week, we learned that the editor-in-chief of the right-wing weekly

Valeurs Actuelles

, Geoffroy Lejeune, was

persona non grata

at the Institute of Political Science.

Contrary to Mr. Philippe Poutou, of the New Anticapitalist Party, who had been greeted with urbanity.

I have not read any protests from journalists or their professional unions loving the freedom to express.

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I take the opportunity to recall that the aforementioned weekly and others of the same obedience, such as Boulevard Voltaire, are the prey of anonymous far-left activists acting under the name of “Sleeping Giants” who intimidate their advertisers.

Here again, I have not seen any demonstration of minimal fraternal or union solidarity.

On the contrary, as I had done a summer column, the public service radio France Inter, very theoretically bound by a regulatory obligation of neutrality and objectivity, had said the greatest good about these giant arbitrary censors very marked ideologically. .

The same public antenna, through the mouth of its media manager, Sonia Devillers not to name it, had publicly drawn up a list of names of "evil thinking" (including yours truly) who had the front undoubtedly too national to express themselves on CNews.

Specifically, last week, CNews reporter Christine Kelly was the subject of threats of beheading on social networks.

Not a head of indignant left has risen.

Jordan Florentin, editor-in-chief of the political service of the Black Book media, classified on the right, filed a complaint on Saturday against the comedian Yassine Belattar, in particular for kidnapping and threats.

Again, some journalists are slow to report this information.

Could it really be the "extreme right" which threatens the freedom to inform?

Or would the fascists have changed sides?

Gilles-William Goldnadel

But obviously, it is the possible candidacy of Eric Zemmour, journalist but presented uniment as "far-right polemicist" which has triggered many examples of intolerance and violence in a concert of deafening silence.

On October 23, 160 journalists signed a highly inspired petition relayed by Mediapart to “make it invisible”. On October 30, in Nantes, self-proclaimed anti-fascists, Palestinian flag in hand, tried to prevent one of its meetings, by attacking the police, with touching cries of "

Love everywhere, Zemmour nowhere!"

". Whatever one thinks of the person concerned, a candid could have hoped for some reactions from the progressive defenders of the freedom of assembly and of expression.

Finally, apotheosis of verbal violence, this Sunday, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, president of the UDI, on France Info, saw fit to declare "

Zemmour, if Pasqua was there, he would put a bullet in your head!"

".

The public channel had the strange idea of ​​tweeting these literally murderous remarks in particular, blandly considering them as a simple "tackle", before withdrawing them later as "contrary to his values" when the politician regretted them.

Could it really be the "extreme right" which threatens the freedom to inform?

Or would the fascists have changed sides?

Will the question be asked?

Source: lefigaro

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