Roger Garaudy, Abbe Pierre, and the French negationists

The Roger Garaudy affair was the most famous of the cases of negationism in France in the 1990s. This marks the point of intersection between negationism and a particularly virulent anti-Zionism. Discusses the life and opinions of Garaudy. In 1998 he was tried for 'complicity in contesting crimes against humanity' and 'incitement to racial discrimination, hatred and violence'. His sentence was confirmed in 2000, and his declarations constituted part of the tendency toward demonization of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Rejected by French public opinion, Garaudy was nevertheless feted in the Arab world