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Patrick Henriet

Marc Bloch and antisemitism: a contemporary instrumentalization

That a great medieval historian, a member of the Resistance and a victim of the Nazis as well as some French citizens, executed in 1945, should be honored in this way is certainly cause for celebration. More questionable, however, are a number of instances of appropriation and misappropriation that are not only the work of politicians, but also originate within the historical profession itself. This is nothing new.

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Collective

The list of shame

The "list of perpetrators of genocide" published by historian Julien Théry primarily stigmatizes Jewish figures simply because they defend Israel's right to exist. An opinion piece by Xavier-Laurent Salvador and Patrick Henriet calls for combating antisemitism in all its forms.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The meaning of our fight

A profound reversal of values ​​and benchmarks is currently affecting the intellectual, educational, and social spheres. Identity ideologies are distorting historical struggles for equality, emptying them of their meaning. It is urgent to reestablish critical thinking, armed with knowledge and rigor, to stand up against this charade that is blurring the transmission of reality.

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Nathalie Heinich

After October 7: a Titanic of the left in democracy

October 7 revealed the failure of a Western left, divided by its support for Hamas and disconnected from its historical values ​​such as anti-racism, secularism and the fight for equality. This fracture is symptomatic of the wokeism and Islamo-leftism that are eating away at the political debate.

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Nathalie Heinich

The semantic entryism of wokism

Democracy, universalism, rationality, secularism and freedom of expression – all values ​​trampled by the woke movement, by Nathalie Heinich.

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Common Places (Collective)

"The discourse of (de)colonial ecology is a total scam"

Transcript published in May 2021 on the Lieux Communs website, of the Offensive Sonore program broadcast simultaneously on Radio Libertaire. Significant changes have been placed in brackets. To compensate for contemporary Newspeak, the terms "decolonial" and "indigenist" have been

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