The mayor of a Paris suburb has been fined for comparing the country’s police to the Second World War Vichy regime. Patrick Chaimovitch, the Green party mayor of Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) was filmed commenting on France’s gendarmes at a ceremony in July last year. Chaimovitch could be heard comparing the actions of police officers who “track […]
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Purim Satire: A Statement from The Papa Vichy Jam Company
“Bonne Maman, a popular French preserves company available in most grocery stories and online, is going viral for an unverified but heartwarming story of Nazi resistance” — New York Post, Feb. 18, 2021 We realize there is a “feel-good” story going around about a certain rival jam company from our part of the world, in […]
How a Jewish movement managed to thrive under the antisemitic Vichy regime
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Vichy Journalism on Steroids: Obama and the New Wave of “All-Good” Black Journalism
WASHINGTON (Analysis) — Shortly after a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager, the celebrated African-American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in the Atlantic Monthly: I think the jury basically got it right. The only real eyewitness to the death of Trayvon Martin was the man who killed […]