France Should Be Ashamed of Labeling Products Made by Jews
And look to its past.
December 2, 2016
An unlikely figure.
A retired history professor, the child of refugees from pre-World War II Europe, a life-long secular Jew, a graduate of Yeshiva University, a critic of “white nationalism,” and a disciple of the New Left philosopher Herbert Marcuse, Paul Gottfried is not the man most would expect to be the leading theorist of the self-styled “alt-right.” But Gottfried claims to have “co-created” the term with his erstwhile disciple Richard Spencer, now famous for shouting “Hail Trump!” at a Washington, DC conference. (Spencer insists he invented the term independently, when composing a title for an article by Gottfried.) Jacob Siegel writes:
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Don’t hold infrastructure hostage to politics.
No friend of Israel.
An unlikely figure.
Eighty-seven were killed, with British collusion.