More right-wing than the 'right-wing': members of the JDL hold a rally in Paris.
The upheavals of the "Dieudonné case" highlighted the power of the pro-Israel lobby inside the French State (see
here the analysis of Jacob Cohen). A departure from precedent at the Council of State (Supreme Court), which made its decision in a hurry and under pressure from LICRA (read
here), massive deployments of police forces around comedy venues and cultural arenas, fiscal and judicial harassment, planned closure of his YouTube channel and eviction from his own theater, not to mention the full range of political and media establishment against him (see
here)... guilty of Zionist dissent, nothing has been spared against Dieudonné.
This campaign benefited from the firepower of CRIF and LICRA, ideological state apparatuses (see my post
here on this issue) and the mainstream media, but also from auxiliary forces, including the Ligue de Défense Juive [Jewish Defense League]. Terrorizing, beating, and insulting spectators and acquaintances of Dieudonné at truly punitive expeditions outside La Main d'Or theater in Paris - for which, needless to say, police forces are
not mobilized for the occasion, and who do not lift a finger to help victims of violence (see
here) - this paramilitary militia already has a long history behind it, dotted with violence and abuse of all kinds.
Comment: Some of Rob Ford's greatest hits: