Once fairly left French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut (born in 1949) himself is the son of immigrants (from Poland). For his recent reaction to the riots (interview with Haaretz) he became a focus of critique ('new neo-reactionary' Nouvel Ovservateur) for saying sentences like When an Arab torches a school, it's rebellion. When a white guy does it, it's fascism.. He has apologized in Le Monde for parts of that interview. Here now is an earlier interview with him with more carefully chosen words.

Interview with Alain Finkielkraut: “The illegitimacy of hatred”


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