{"id":257072,"date":"2018-01-23T14:54:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T19:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=257072"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:38:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:38:21","slug":"what-do-sneakers-jews-have-in-common-french-tv-faces-backlash-for-airing-holocaust-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/what-do-sneakers-jews-have-in-common-french-tv-faces-backlash-for-airing-holocaust-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What do sneakers & Jews have in common?\u2019 French TV faces backlash for airing Holocaust joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Not only it\u2019s not \u201cantisemitic\u201d but is anti-revisionist as it confirms that many Jews have been killed. Freedom of expression is the freedom to laugh about anything!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A public broadcaster in France is in hot water after airing a prime-time joke about the Holocaust. \u201cWhat do sneakers and Jews have in common? They\u2019re more common in 39 than 45,\u201d blonde Belgian comedienne Laura Laune said.<\/p>\n

France 2 aired the joke by the winner of the 2017 season of the French version of \u2018America\u2019s Got Talent\u2019 in its 8pm news journal on Friday. The profile report on Laune described her as an\u00a0\u201cangel-turned-demon,\u201d\u00a0highlighted her growing popularity on the stand-up comedy scene in France. She was also praised for her\u00a0\u201cingenue looks\u201d\u00a0and signature \u201cunfiltered humor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust during World War II, which began in 1939 and ended in 1945.<\/p>\n

Laune\u2019s joke about Jews gained little applause on stage and drew criticism from the social media community.<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic broadcaster: They sell the boldness of a joke by a woman on the Holocaust while they kick out Tex for a joke about women,\u201d\u00a0Gilles-William Goldnadel, a prominent French-Israeli lawyer, tweeted.<\/p>\n

The comedian Tex, whose real name is Jean-Christophe Le Texier, was fired from France 2 last month after joking about domestic violence against women during an appearance in a show on the private C8 channel in November.\u00a0\u201cWhat do you tell a woman with two black eyes? Nothing, someone tried to explain things to her twice already,\u201d Tex said.<\/p>\n

Popular French radio and television presenter and writer of Tunisian origin, Cyril Hanouna, also blasted the French broadcaster for airing the Belgian comedienne\u2019s joke.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoycot Laura Laune. A vile anti-Semitic racist!\u201d\u00a0another person wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cA total, absolute banalization of the Holocaust that is subliminally presented by Laura Laune during a cool fun night. The meaning is clear (cognitive psychology) \u2013 Laura Laune is totally anti-Semitic. Would France2tv condone this despicable behavior?\u201d\u00a0another person said.<\/p>\n

Laune\u2019s manager, Matthieu Clee, said his client \u201chas nothing to reproach herself about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an excerpt from his show that France 2 decided to show, it is their editorial responsibility to have chosen this particular extract. During her show, she makes jokes about Catholics, Muslims, Jews and nobody leaves the room in shock,”\u00a0he\u00a0told\u00a0Tele-Loisirs.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/416745-holocaust-jews-joke-france\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Not only it\u2019s not \u201cantisemitic\u201d but is anti-revisionist as it confirms that many Jews have been killed. Freedom of expression is the freedom to laugh about anything!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":327495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}