Antisemitism and apology for terrorism ‘already unlawful in France’: Is Yadan Legislation ‘actually vital?’

As France debates a controversial antisemitism invoice, Oliver Farry welcomes Renaud Foucart, Economist, Senior Lecturer at Lancaster College, for a nuanced and significant examination of the so-called Yadan Invoice. Talking from each an financial and institutional perspective, he evokes three competing imperatives: the pressing have to fight anti-Semitism, the preservation of freedom of expression, and the instrumentalization of authorized instruments inside electoral politics. He argues that whereas the worry and lived actuality of anti-Semitism in France are deeply reliable, the proposed laws dangers extending far past its said function.