semitism in France.
Do you think this is accurate?
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Jew-Hate: France's National Sport
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 16, 2006
Frontpage Interview's guest today is Philippe Karsenty, the founder
and president of Media-Ratings, the first media-ratings agency in
the world that closely monitors French media outlets and, among
other things, their anti-American and anti-Israeli bias.
FP: Philippe Karsenty, tell us a bit about your background, what
Media-Ratings is and what motivated you to create it.
Karsenty: Media-Ratings was created in 2004 in reaction to all the
mistakes, and sometimes lies, that the French media outlets were
publishing on every subject. I have a financial background and I
thought that the tools we used on the financial markets, ratings
agencies, could be applied to the media sphere. I gathered a group
of intellectuals, teachers and journalists and we created a strict
method of analysis: the PHILTRE, which stands for Precision,
Homogeneity, Independence, Liberty, Transparency, Responsibility and
Exhaustivity.
We treat all sorts of subjects, from French politics to
international politics, economy or even celebrities.
This has allowed us to gain credibility on every subject, including
anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism and anti-Semitism.
FP: So tell us about the eye you keep on the French media's bias on
these themes.
Karsenty: Anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism and anti-Semitism are
very present in the French media outlets, but not only there; they
are everywhere in French society, from the bottom to the top. For
example, Jacques Chirac recently said that liberalism will be
destroyed as communism was in the 20th century. He never said what
will replace liberalism but he just predicted the end of it.
Anti-Americanism is also very present in the French political and
intellectual life. Never forget how our actual prime minister,
Villepin, travelled all over the world to fight American diplomacy
before the Iraqi war. Another thing interesting to think about: not
one French newspaper or magazine supported the US in the war in
Iraq. Not even one. And when you asked French diplomats or
intellectuals why America was going at war against Saddam, they
answered that it was because Bush was receiving marching orders from
Ariel Sharon.
Anti-Semitism is more complex in the French media. In France, you
can't say "I hate the Jews" but it's very positive for your career,
as an intellectual, a journalist or a diplomat, to say that Israel
is an evil state and that you want it to disappear. For example,
Villepin said in 2001 that Israel was a "parenthesis of the history"
that will not last very long. He became foreign affair minister a
year after, then interior minister, and he's now prime minister.
FP: Why do you think Jew-Hate and anti-Americanism are so strong in
France?
Karsenty: In the French political and intellectual sphere, the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion are very present. Even if almost
everybody knows this was a forgery, almost everybody thinks with
these Protocols in the back of their mind.
As I said, the Iraqi war was launched, according to most of the
French people, in the name of Israel. And if you look at the nuclear
bomb in preparation in Iran, you see that the French media only
focus on the Israeli supposed interest. They just forget that if
Iran provides terrorists with dirty radioactive material, it's
Europe that could be affected very soon. They also forget to recall
that Europe has no missile anti-missile as Israel has with the Hetz.
This means that, objectively, Israel is less endangered by a nuclear
Iran than Europe. But, if you hear French media, the only country is
danger is Israel and French people don't want to fight a billion of
Muslims to defend 6 million Israelis.
Concerning anti-Americanism, France will never forgive America to
have saved it twice during the 20th century. Never.
FP: True, true. So what are the forces against you? Can you talk
about the tactics your opponents have used to try to stop you from
your efforts?
Karsenty: The whole French elites are against Media-Ratings. We
disturb them because we oppose them when they lie. French media
outlets hate us because we are criticizing them all the time. The
French government dislikes us because we are not accepting their
lies, especially concerning foreign affairs. We revealed that they
lied on Iraq, on French so-called hostages in Iraq, on the behaviour
of the French army in Ivory Coast and on many other issues where
French diplomats were wrong.
French media outlets and politicians found many ways to stop us.
First, we've been served with many lawsuits. They sue us for
defamation. They know that we're right and that we'll win our cases.
But they know it takes most of our energy to defend ourselves, and
also most of our resources. While we're defending, we're not
criticizing them.
FP: So what is going on with the state of Muslims in France? There
are areas in your country now where women have to veil themselves in
fear of being attacked?
Karsenty: I would say that the problem in France is not with the
Muslims but with few extremists Muslims who want to impose their
ideology. There is also a problem with French politicians,
diplomats, intellectuals and journalists who are willing
to "collaborate" with those extremists. They think they'll have
peace through this pattern. They are just appeasing and delaying the
confrontation.
FP: Well I think the problem is larger than there being "a few
extremists" but perhaps we'll have this out in another forum. What
happened in the Al Dura controversy? Why is it so difficult to make
it right and correct it?
Karsenty: The Al Dura controversy is the biggest media scandal in
the world. It occurred more than 5 years ago and it twisted the
brains of hundreds of millions of people, thinking that the Jews, or
the Israelis, which is the same for many people in Europe, kill Arab
kids on purpose. This image is now in everyone brain. It's a forgery
that developed anti-Semitism, but not only, also anti-Americanism
and I'd say, anti-Western values all over the world. Never forget it
occurred a year before 9/11.
Now, we are very few who try to have this story corrected. The
problem to have this right is that the French elites are very happy
with it because it confirms their hate feelings against Israel and
the Jews. Israel-bashing is a national sport in France.
On the other side, the Israeli government is not willing to fight.
First because they don't realize how strong was the impact of this
image on western brains. The second reason is, unfortunately, that
they have other "deals" (Iran Syria, LebanonÂ…) with France and that,
now, they don't want to endanger their relationship with Chirac.
But, I'm confident. At the end of the story, people will be forced
to admit that we are right. There will be a lawsuit in 4 months
because the French TV who broadcasted the Al Dura forgery, France 2,
sued us for defamation. We'll expose our case and their lies and
incoherence. They'll respond but, as we've seen their evidences, I'm
really confident on the result of the lawsuit.
FP: Is there any future for the Jews in France?
Karsenty: I am not sure. It really depends on the next few years.
Either the next French government will go on collaborating with some
rogue states and terrorist groups as they have been doing now for
the last past 10 years. In this case, the Jews will be not be
welcome in France anymore, except if they spit on Israel and
America. I'm not really concerned by the large number of Muslims in
France. I'm more concerned by the French habit to collaborate with
any dictator or group who will intimidate them, especially if they
propose to get rid of the Jews. Look at how Chirac, and most of the
French diplomats, always protected the Hezbollah and now, how he's
trying to help the Hamas. Never forget they've been the best allies
of Saddam Hussein and other Jew killers and haters like Arafat,
Hafez el Assad or Ghadafi.
FP: When the students went on "strike" to protest the new
legislation about employers have the right to fire young people,
many of us here were very confused. What is this all about?
Employers should have the right to hire and fire who they want to,
no?
Karsenty: As a Frenchman, I would say no. (laughs)
The French economic culture is based on the fact that employers are
ugly capitalists who try to exploit their employees and that their
only goal is to fire them to make huge profits. You have to
understand that France has an official unemployment rate of 10% but
that the real figures are much higher. Being fired in France is a
big trauma and many people stay unemployed many years before finding
another job. There is no flexibility in France. Whereas an American
employee can move from New York to Miami to find a new job, a
regular French employee wouldn't accept a new job which will force
him to move a hundred miles. And the French legislation is on his
side, he has the right to refuse.
FP: Next year, France will have elections. What are the
possibilities?
Karsenty: The worst case scenario would be that Chirac will be re-
elected. It seems now impossible but never forget that the day
Chirac leaves the Elysee, some judges will try to put him in jail
for corruption and other wrongdoings. So, he'll do whatever he could
to keep on being president.
If Chirac doesn't run for office again, Sarkozy (the right) will
probably oppose Segolene Royal (the left), who is our "Hillary".
There is also Le Pen, the far-rightist, who will probably be very
strong at this election again.
My anticipation is that Royal the leftist will win because Sarkozy
has a weak team and that the credibility of right is very low now.
Concerning anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, I would say that any
new French president will be better than Jacques Chirac who is
really the worst we've never had.
FP: Philippe Karsenty, thank you for joining us today.
Karsenty: Thank you Jamie.
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