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06/09/2008

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Daniel, Jean

3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Le Nouvel Observateur - France | 30/07/2008

Anti-Semitism debate in France

The French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo recently sacked the cartoonist Siné for a column considered anti-Semitic. Siné had speculated whether President Sarkozy's son, Jean Sarkozy, would convert to Judaism before his wedding. The political weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur criticises this reaction: "What we are seeing here is the very French left-wing anti-Semitism in a satirical weekly that wanted to remain 'dumb and dirty' ... but has become an institution. ... What has [Siné] done that others have not done much more vilely before him? Nothing other than lampooning someone. I find it highly interesting that a newspaper which stops at nothing should accept the idea that certain borders may not be transgressed. And I find it no less remarkable that a liberal newspaper like Libération agrees with [the publisher of Charlie Hebdo] Philippe Val on this point. What has happened in France? The answer is clear. This matter concerns Jews. And in the past humour at the expense of Jews has been known to end badly."

Le Nouvel Observateur - France | 27/09/2007

Jean Daniel on school and the Church as means of integration in France

Jean Daniel, chief editor of the weekly, considers that "France would never have bcome the most marvellous machine in the world for fabricating French people from elsewhere without the Catholic Church, that took these immigrants of the same faith under its wing, and above all without the republican, secular obligatory school system. In bygone days no family was without a happy memory of a school teacher. Often, when reading the biography of a writer or artist, one finds the same remark: 'At the age of 10 or 12, a teacher singled me out and helped me out' ... . What was the black smock that Jules Ferry wanted us all to wear everywhere in France? It was the exact opposite of the veil. It was a way of imposing equality on all children, of effacing the distinction between rich and poor and children of different races and religions.”

Le Nouvel Observateur - France | 18/01/2007

The French right-wing and the "myths of the left"

"The ceremony that ended last Sunday with the sacrament of Nicolas Sarkozy is a political event", stresses the French writer and journalist Jean Daniel, noting that the UMP presidential candidate used references "long-inscribed in left-wing mythology" in his investiture speech. "What I want to underline, simply and emphatically, is that there is a considerable displacement of boundaries between right and left. But unanimity over a certain universal humanism does nothing to prevent the opposition that remains between the values of solidarity on the left and competitive values on the right. Thus one should not be surprised to hear Nicolas Sarkozy quoting Victor Hugo, Jean Jaurès [founder of the French Parti Socialiste], Zolas and Camus. ...this strategic and rallying evocation is aimed to show that racist, conservative, nostalgic, powerful and reactionary right wing supported by the Catholic Church is over for most of the French."

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