"The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics" and its repercussions

Copyright 1996 – All rights reserved. Contents Introduction Part I: Theological Myths The Myth of the "Promise": Promised Land or Conquered Land? In Contemporary Christian Exegesis In the Prophetic Jewish Exegesis The Myth of the "Chosen People" The Myth of Joshua: Ethnic Purification Part II: The Myths of the 20th …

No "Right to Reply" (yet written in our law) was granted to me by the media when they discharged the worst lies against my book The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. I was walled up in silence. Only Abbé Pierre dared raise his great voice. By enacting laws that …

Annexes Letter of Abbé Pierre to Roger Garaudy April 15, 1996 Very Dear Roger, You know the limits of my strength. I weaken every day, even though many think that my strength is great because my voice is still resounding and because, as soon as I have the conviction that …

The Garaudy affair began in January 1996 and that of Abbe Pierre in April of the same year. The two episodes, taken together, occupied an important place in the media up until Abbe Pierre's retraction, announced on July 23. Their most positive consequence is contained in two articles by historian …

The cover of the June 27-July 3 edition of L'Evénement du jeudi includes a picture of Abbe Pierre and has as its headline: "The Holocaust: a victory for the Revisionists." Inside the journal some 10 pages are devoted to this story [p. 16-25]; as well, there are references to it …

Former communist Roger Garaudy converts to revisionism" "L'an cien communiste Roger Garaudy se convertit au révisonnisme". Such was the headline bannering Christiane Chombeau's January 31st article in Le Monde last winter, one rich in meaning for those who had followed Roger Garaudy's meandering career as a French intellectual since …

Concluding the tenth chapter of his novel Moravagine, the French poet, Blaise Cendrars, describes the social ferment that pervaded Tsarist Russia on the eve of revolution: "Everything was thrown out of kilter: institutions, family traditions, the notion of honor. A frantic loosening of all ties, which was mistaken for mysticism, …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell A Paris court ordered French philosopher Roger Garaudy to pay 240,000 francs ($40,000) for challenging the existence of homicidal gas chambers in his book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. Garaudy, an 84-year-old convert to Islam, was found guilty …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell A French magistrate launched a probe into French historian, Roger Garaudy on allegations that he illegally questioned established beliefs about the holocaust. Garaudy commented that he had ``done nothing wrong'' in his work, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell Abbe Pierre, a Roman Catholic priest known for championing France's poor and homeless was condemned for supporting the author of a book that presents revisionist arguments which cast doubt on more traditional beliefs about the holocaust. Abbe Pierre, 83, is …