Élisabeth Lévy
Élisabeth Lévy (born 16 February 1964) is a French journalist, polemicist, essayist and editor in chief of "Causeur". Biography. She was born in Marseille, grew up at Épinay-sur-Seine, studied at Sciences Po and failed to join the Ecole nationale d'administration. She worked for the Agence France-Presse (AFP), Jeune Afrique, Globe, for which she organizes a conversation between the palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh and the israelian diplomat Elie Barnavi, before supporting Jean-Pierre Chevènement. She joins L’Événement du jeudi, Marianne and after being fired by Jean-François Kahn in 1998 writes for Le Figaro. Perceived political  views. She is considered a Climate sceptic, close to far right movements, and invited to monarchist conferences, with Paul-Marie Coûteaux and Roland Dumas, by the Action française, though the publication "Causeur", for which she wrote at the time, stated that she would never attend such an event. Nouveaux réactionnaires. In 2004, she was fired from the radio show, "On refait le monde" on RTL, with Pascale Clark. In 2005, "Le Premier Pouvoir", a programme she presented on France Culture, was cancelled. Previous guests included Jean Baudrillard, accused by Bruno Latour of denying the Attacks of 11 September and Peter  Sloterdijk, whose speech and philosophy has been described, in 1999, as "fascistoid" by the Frankfurter Rundschau, though other publications disagreed. In 2007, she specializes also into interviewing controversial authors form the French ('new reactionaries'), not to be confused with the Neo-reaction as Maurice Dantec, Philippe Muray, with whom Lévy wrote "Festivus Festivus", or Michel Houellebecq. She is included among the list of 'new reactionaries' featured in a documentary by Aude-Emilie Judaïque and Gilles Davidas. Great replacement. In 2009, Renaud Camus dedicates his diary, "Krakmo" to Lévy. She defends, with Alain Finkielkraut, his conspiracy theory of Great replacement inspired  by Jean Raspail, popularized internationally by Russia Today and French far right and former director of Reporters Without Borders, Robert Ménard. Lévy wrote a book with him "Les Français sont-ils antisémites ?", before Charlottesville car attack and Christchurch mosque shootings. Prostitution. In October 2013, she published a petition in favor of prostitution called the Manifesto of the 343 bastards, in "Causeur" to fight against the proposals of law aiming to penalize clients of prostitution, with the slogan "Touche pas à ma pute". the reference is Loi Gayssot. In 2019, she said the Loi Gayssot, punishing holocaust denial, does not prevent  it, and establishes the idea that there is a legal privilege for the Jews and creates an inflation of memorial laws, while also making clear that she views anti-Zionism as a screen for antisemitism and that she considers that holocaust denial "should be fought through history". Alcoholism. Often called an alcoholic by France Inter, she criticizes the Anti alcohol decisions quoting François Rabelais: "Always drink and you shall never die". During the Pandemic of Coronavirus, she also criticized the interdiction of alcohol, in the department of Aisne. Controversies. Salafi reformism. In 1995, she mentions about Tarik Ramadan, accused of  contacts with terrorists or other Islamic fundamentalists, antisemitism and double talk, describing himself as a "Salafi reformist", in "Le Nouveau Quotidien", an "egyptian plot", against him. In 2002, she joins the talk show "that prevents you from sleeping", "Culture et Dépendances", of Franz-Olivier Giesbert to confront controversial intellectuals defending both Decoloniality and Postcolonialism as Tarik Ramadan, Jacques Derrida, considered by Richard Wolin as a corrosive nihilist or Salman Rushdie. Identity theft. President of the , founded by , formerly known as the Fondation Marc Bloch, it is forced to change its name on April 11, 2000 following a court decision: Étienne  Bloch, the son of historian Marc Bloch, had taken legal action to prohibit the foundation from referring to the name of his father. Mohammed Al Dura. In 2008, Jamal al-Durah, the father of Mohammed al-Dura, filed a defamation complaint against two supporters of the manipulation thesis, including Gil Mihaely, head, with Levy, of the Causeur site. Kosovo war. In 2013, she contests the number of casualties by Serbians during the Kosovo War, in the French periodical Le Débat, founded by Pierre Nora and Marcel Gauchet. In Relation To Pedophilia. In 2020, she criticised public attention and new prosecutorial  investigations into the misdeeds of the pedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff, noting that prosecution is not possible and that he was by then "an elderly, sick and broke writer". In 2021, after Camille Kouchner accused her step-father, Olivier Duhamel, of incest, Lévy critiqued the publication of the name of the street on which Duhamel lived, comparing this to a call to lynching and an "appetite for the guillotine".