Guest on the set of Up to you On Wednesday night, Gérard Darmon refused to pay tribute to Jean-Luc Godard, who had died the day before. “The man he was was not very benevolent for my community, for Jews in general and for Israel in particular,” the actor, son of Algerian Sephardic Jews, explained to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine.
“I think the comments he made were absolutely inadmissible. It was anti-Semitism, it was Holocaust denial, it was revisionism,” he said, before adding that he was “very affected by the disappearance of Queen Elizabeth.”
“I cannot admire Jean-Luc Godard, I cannot admire someone who hates Jews so much. Just as I will never read Céline or marvel at Hitler’s paintings,” she added. “He rests in his soul, but he’s not someone I hold dear, love. That’s all I have to say about him.”
Gérard Darmon cites in particular the documentary here and elsewherea pro-Palestinian film by Godard that caused a scandal in the 1970s. These words, I find shameful.
“Obscene and anti-Semitic”
Accusations of anti-Semitism against Jean-Luc Godard have existed for years, according to Release. According to the newspaper, director Chantal Akerman had recorded her film Our music (2004) of “obscene and anti-Semitic”. And the philosopher Gilles Deleuze was shocked that Godard called Zionism “fiction.”
Many personalities from the world of culture, such as François Truffaut or Bernard-Henri Lévy, have also recounted Godard’s anti-Semitic outbursts that they have heard in the press or in books. Projections that Godard never denied during the many interviews he gave throughout his life.
“Godard was radical, and he was steeped in the desire that his statements participate in the public debate on the issues that animated him politically,” he also points out. Released. “I don’t want to add words to words,” once declared Godard, who had continued to support the Palestinian cause until his last days.
In 2018, the 87-year-old director signed a petition to boycott the France-Israel season organized by the French Institute. He also supported the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” campaign, which called for a boycott of Israel.
Source: BFM TV
