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Lévy, Bernard-Henri

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Lobbyist Bernard-Henri Levy jeered in Tunis

5 November 2014

In the evening of 31 October, demonstrators tried to prevent the high-profile French intellectual, Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL) - promoter of wars in Europe and the Middle East - from entering Tunisia. The man is considered by the French press as "a great humanist and intellectual," and is even (…)

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Hillary and Bernard

by Gilad Atzmon

14 September 2012

Following the recent events in Libya, Hillary Clinton was quoted saying “how can this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city [Benghazi] we helped save from destruction?”
I guess that the American Foreign Secretary should address this question to Bernard-Henri Levy - the architect (…)

For BHL, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations is an idiot

3 June 2012

During a television appearance to promote his film dedicated, in his own words, to the Libyan miracle, lobbyist Bernard-Henri Lévy violently lashed out against Vitaly Churkin, the ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Nations [1]
"Some people are real idiots ... I was just (…)

The Sakineh scandal

by Thierry Meyssan

Tehran (Iran) | 20 September 2010

French essayist Bernard-Henry Levy and President Nicolas Sarkozy have mobilized French public opinion to save an Iranian woman, accused of adultery, from being stoned to death. Overcome with emotion, the French did not take the time to verify the allegations, until actor
Dieudonné M’bala (…)

The betrayal of the scholars

Alain Finkielkraut and Bernard Henry Lévy, two propagandists of the «clash of civilizations»

by Cédric Housez

18 May 2005

In the past, France used to boast about producing great intellectuals who provided the world with new elements of reflection. However, today, it lives under the dictatorship of those who dictate their opinions, who answer their own questions to impose, more easily, the prefabricated thinking, (…)