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Disgusting and incongruent populist

Reader comment on item: What to Make of Éric Zemmour?

Submitted by David (Israel), Dec 1, 2021 at 10:18

In his desire (shared by myself) for further rise of popular sentiment and support for civilizationism in Europe, Dr. Pipes unfortunately makes the same mistake as when he originally supported Donald Trump. The similarity is evident in Dr Pipes initially tolerating the disgusting personal style and twisting of reality by both of these politicians. Just as Dr Pipes has apparently backed off his support of Trump, he is (and even more so) likely to do so with Zemmour.

The idiotic rudeness (and no, this is NOT typical of Parisian waiters) exhibited by Zemmur when Dr. Pipes approached him in Budapest appears to be a characteristic but minor fault compared to those not mentioned in the article. Here is a small sample.

Zemmour attempts to rewrite history by defending the Vichy regime of Nazi collaborators, justifying their sending Jewish refugees straight to the Nazi externmination camps. He says this is how Vichy saved the "real French" Jews...

Zemmour says that since Israel has an atomic bomb, Iran should also be allowed to have one. What a perfect pearl of antisemitic, anti-Western, pro-Jihadist logic.

He has has compared a recent government initiative to facilitate the integration of transgender children in school to the experiments of Dr Mengele, a Nazi physician famed for his atrocities on concentration camps prisoners during World War II.

Among his other ahistoric comments, he has questioned the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus, who was falsely convicted for treason in a notorious example of 20th century antisemitism.

Seriously, Dr Pipes?

Submitting....

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Daniel Pipes replies:

I know all the problematic issues you raise and alluded to them in my brief analysis.

But you have it wrong about my response to Trump; I vehemently opposed him, voted for Gary Johnson in 2016, and only came around reluctantly to vote for him in 2020 when I saw that his policies were so good, despite his horrible character.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
1Zemmour the Clarion Call [58 words]Franck SalamehDec 1, 2021 12:06276979
3Disgusting and incongruent populist [250 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
DavidDec 1, 2021 10:18276976
Do not bury him yet... [111 words]אבי לייני AVIDec 1, 2021 07:15276972
Zemmour is not an arabic name [21 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
HILOUT PASCALDec 1, 2021 06:23276970
1Zemmour Arabic or Berber ? [121 words]HILOUT PASCALDec 2, 2021 00:39276970
1Zumarra, Mizmar and the Semitic root Z-M-R [56 words]dhimmi no moreDec 2, 2021 14:06276970
Zumarra, Mizmar and the Semitic root Z-M-R: Addendum [52 words]dhimmi no moreDec 3, 2021 08:37276970
Zumarra, Mizmar and the Semitic root Z-M-R and the saga continues! [458 words]dhimmi no moreDec 3, 2021 17:54276970
1Footnote: The ugly Arabization and Islamization of North Africa and the victims were the Amazigh and their language [392 words]dhimmi no moreDec 5, 2021 08:49276970
Afro-Asiatic languages and in quest of the olive/olives/olive tree [171 words]dhimmi no moreDec 5, 2021 11:11276970
Zemmour must be from Hebrew Zamar [141 words]dhimmi no moreDec 5, 2021 16:01276970
Meaning of z-m-r [41 words]Daniel K.Dec 8, 2021 04:30276970
Z-M-R Root and Arabic, Syriac/Aramiac and Hebrew and the elusive "olive" or "olive tree" [185 words]dhimmi no moreDec 8, 2021 12:51276970
Addendum: Z-M-R and Pruning a tree and Olive tree in Syriac/Aramaic and Arabic [51 words]dhimmi no moreDec 8, 2021 17:00276970
Z-M-R: ܙܡܪܐ in Aramaic Lexicon (Hebrew Union College- Cincinnati) [65 words]dhimmi no moreDec 9, 2021 10:55276970
Zebbouj : wild olive tree [50 words]HILOUT PASCALDec 9, 2021 11:04276970
the proof of [48 words]HILOUT PASCALDec 9, 2021 11:20276970
1Pascal: vous êtes très gentil merci beaucoup [306 words]dhimmi no moreDec 9, 2021 15:38276970
The root Z-M-R and Politicians [187 words]dhimmi no moreDec 10, 2021 08:58276970
Could you transliterate the Arabic, please? [28 words]KephaDec 18, 2021 15:15276970
Kepha and Q112:1 [109 words]dhimmi no moreDec 19, 2021 07:40276970
2Jeremiah warned, but Judah fell to Babylon [281 words]DaveNov 30, 2021 22:04276958
Does it Matter [70 words]MWNov 30, 2021 20:25276956
Is living under Islamic regimes better for Jews [110 words]PrashantDec 9, 2021 22:20276956
Thank you, Daniel [56 words]Anne JulienneNov 30, 2021 20:19276955
Just What France Does NOT Need - Another Revolutionary Politician [316 words]M ToveyNov 30, 2021 19:45276954
What a Name May Hide; or May Reveal by Action or by Truth [159 words]M ToveyDec 6, 2021 16:16276954
What is the Meaning if This Name if It Does Not Speak to the French [160 words]M ToveyDec 10, 2021 18:10276954

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