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Élisabeth Lévy
Born16 february 1964
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Journalist
Columnist

Élisabeth Lévy (born 16 February 1964) is a French journalist, editor in chief of Causeur.

Biography

She was born in Marseille, and studied at Sciences Po and failed to join the Ecole nationale d'administration. She worked for the Agence France-Presse (AFP), Jeune Afrique, Globe, and supports Jean-Pierre Chevènement. She joins L’Événement du jeudi, Marianne and after being fired by Jean-François Kahn in 1998 writes for Le Figaro.

Controversies

Nouveaux réactionnaires

She is fired from France Culture, in 2005, after receiving controversial radical philosophers such as Jean Baudrillard, accused of celebrting the Attacks of 11 September and Peter Sloterdijk, for being a "fascist", by Jurgen Habermas.[1]

In 2007, she specializes also into interviewing controversial authors form the French Nouveaux réactionnaires, not to be confused with the Neo-reaction as Maurice Dantec, Philippe Muray or Michel Houellebecq[2].

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.[3]

Kosovo war

In 2013, she contests the number of casualties by Serbians during the Kosovo War,[4] 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.[5]

Great replacement

In 2017, she supports, with Alain Finkielkraut,[6] the existence of a Great replacement, based on a conspiracy theory, theorized by Renaud Camus,[7] inspired by Jean Raspail, popularized internationally by French far right and former director of Reporters sans frontières, (RSF, Reporters without borders), Robert Ménard, and Russia Today, before Charlottesville car attack and Christchurch mosque shootings.

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".[8]

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".[9]

Books

  • Malek Boutih (coauthor), La France aux Français ? Chiche ! : un entretien mené par Élisabeth Lévy / Malek Boutih, Paris, Fondation du 2-Mars et Éditions Mille et une nuits, coll. « Essai », 2001, 97 p. (ISBN 2-84205-564-0)
  • Les maîtres censeurs : pour en finir avec la pensée unique, Paris, Librairie générale française, coll. « Le livre de poche » (no 15282), 2002, 408 p. (ISBN 2-253-15282-X) - Prix François-Victor-Noury de l’Institut de France.
  • Lucien Israël (author) (préf. Alain Besançon), Les dangers de l’euthanasie : entretiens avec Élisabeth Lévy / Lucien Israël, Paris, Éd. des Syrtes, 2002, 153 p. (ISBN 2-84545-051-6)
  • Philippe Muray (coauthor), Festivus festivus : conversations avec Élisabeth Lévy / Philippe Muray, Paris, Fayard, 2005, 485 p. (ISBN 2-213-62129-2)
  • Alain Finkielkraut (coauthor) et Rony Brauman (coauthor), La discorde : Israël-Palestine, les Juifs, la France : conversations avec Élisabeth Lévy / Rony Brauman, Alain Finkielkraut, Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2006, 375 p. (ISBN 2-84205-812-7)
  • Le premier pouvoir : inventaire après liquidation, Paris, Climats, 2007, 164 p. (ISBN 978-2-08-120068-5)hor), Notre métier a mal tourné : deux journalistes s’énervent, Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2008, 232 p. (ISBN 978-2-7555-0041-7)
  • Robert Ménard (coauthor), Les Français sont-ils antisémites ?, Paris, Éditions Mordicus, 2009, 103 p. (ISBN 978-2-918414-16-2)
  • La gauche contre le réel, Paris, Fayard, 2012, 319 p. (ISBN 978-2-7555-0041-7)
  • Les rien-pensants, éditions du Cerf, 2017

References

Annexes

Liens internes