Posts Tagged ‘vichy’

French mayor fined €3,000 for comparing police to WWII Vichy government

The mayor of a Paris suburb has been fined for comparing the country’s police to the Second World War Vichy regime. Patrick Chaimovitch, the Green party mayor of Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) was filmed commenting on France’s gendarmes at a ceremony in July last year. Chaimovitch could be heard comparing the actions of police officers who “track […]

Purim Satire: A Statement from The Papa Vichy Jam Company

“Bonne Maman, a popular French preserves company available in most grocery stories and online, is going viral for an unverified but heartwarming story of Nazi resistance” — New York Post, Feb. 18, 2021 We realize there is a “feel-good” story going around about a certain rival jam company from our part of the world, in […]

How a Jewish movement managed to thrive under the antisemitic Vichy regime

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Betraying the Bolivarian Revolution: Vichy Journalism at teleSUR English

QUITO, ECUADOR (Special Report) — Rita Anaya was a 25-year-old graduate student living in southern California when Venezuelan activists invited her to travel to their homeland for the first time in 2007. Her initial response, she freely acknowledges now, was one of ambivalence, but when you’re the daughter of a Chicano farmworker and a Jewish […]

Vichy Journalism on Steroids: Obama and the New Wave of “All-Good” Black Journalism

WASHINGTON (Analysis) — Shortly after a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager, the celebrated African-American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in the Atlantic Monthly: I think the jury basically got it right. The only real eyewitness to the death of Trayvon Martin was the man who killed […]

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