French comic Dieudonne sentenced to jail for anti-Semitism

Commentary — The following article from the Times of Israel gloats over the decision made in a Belgian court to lock up France’s most popular commedian for the crime of “anti-semitism.” That’s right, it is illegal in Europe not to love Big Zio-Brother. And unless we turn things around awfully quickly, that:s how it will be in the United States too!

A Belgian court finds controversial comedian guilty of hate speech, incitement to hatred and Holocaust denial

Controversial comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala arriving at a Paris courthouse, March 12, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE)

The judgment “says that all the accusations against Dieudonne were established — both incitement to hatred and hate speech but also Holocaust denial” relating to a show in Liege in 2012, Lemmens told AFP.

“For me this is more than satisfying, this is a major victory,” he said.

Earlier this month the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Dieudonne in a separate case, deciding that freedom of speech did not protect “racist and anti-Semitic performances.”

Dieudonne was protesting a fine he received from a French court in 2009 for inviting a Holocaust-denier on stage. He was fined 10,000 euros ($11,000) for what that court referred to as “racist insults.”

In March, a French court also handed Dieudonne a two months suspended sentence and fined him heavily for anti-Semitic remarks after he caused uproar by suggesting he sympathized with the attacks against satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.

“I feel like Charlie Coulibaly,” he wrote on Facebook, a play on the slogan “Je suis Charlie” that became a global rallying cry against extremism and Amedy Coulibaly, one of the attackers.

The performer, who made his name in a double act with Jewish comedian Elie Semoun, is infamous for his trademark “quenelle” hand gesture that looks like an inverted Nazi salute but which he insists is merely anti-establishment.

French courts have hauled him up over a string of comments which opponents say are bluntly racist while supporters champion his right to free speech.

Dieudonne, who can appeal the decision, was not immediately reachable for comment.

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