France’s new law prohibiting Israel criticism

If this new law passes, and it unfortunately very much looks like it will, France – the country that gave the world the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the country whose national identity is built on the Résistance – will have made it illegal to use the word ‘resistance’ about anyone the government doesn’t like. Jean Moulin would be prosecuted. De Gaulle would be prosecuted. The only people who wouldn’t be prosecuted are those who stay silent.