Élisabeth Lévy Explained

Élisabeth Lévy
Birth Date:16 February 1964
Birth Place:Marseille, France
Occupation:Journalist
polemist
Education:Sciences Po

Élisabeth Lévy (born 16 February 1964) is a French journalist, polemicist, essayist and editor in chief of Causeur.[1]

Biography

She was born in Marseille,[2] the daughter of a general practitioner and a pharmacist, both of whom were of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. She grew up in Épinay-sur-Seine and studied at Sciences Po. She worked for the Agence France-Presse (AFP)[3] and for Jeune Afrique.[4] She later joined L’Événement du jeudi, and Marianne[2] and, after being dismissed by Jean-François Kahn in 1998,[3] began writing for Le Figaro.[5] In 2005, Le Premier Pouvoir, a programme she presented on France Culture devoted to media analysis, was cancelled. Guests had included Jean Baudrillard, and Peter Sloterdijk.[6] In 2007 she co-founded Causeur,[7] a magazine whose annual losses are offset by support from far-right stakeholders like Gérald Penciolelli.[8]

Controversies

Climate change denial

During a heated discussion with Claire Nouvain on CNews, where Lévy is a regular guest, she vaunted her skepticism as a healthy scientific posture concerning the role of humanity in global warming.[9]

Proximity to Great Replacement theorists

In 2017, she interviewed Alain Finkielkraut, concerning Renaud Camus's Great Replacement theory and in 2021 published a two-part interview with Camus himself.[10] [11]

In September 2021, the cover of Causeur showing a picture of five Black or mixed-ancestry babies captioned "Smile, you're great-replaced" was a reference to this conspiracy theory. The cover sparked a wave of indignation, inspiring condemnation from the MRAP and many politicians, including former interior minister Christophe Castaner.[12]

Élisabeth Moreno, the Minister for Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities, called it "unabashed racism" and announced that the government had alerted the Paris prosecutor's office.[13]

Prostitution

In October 2013, Causeur published a petition in favor of prostitution called the "Manifesto of the 343 bastards" to fight against a bill aiming to penalize clients of prostitution. She defended the title as a humorous way of treating a serious issue (it was a play on a Charlie Hebdo political cartoon about the 1971 Manifesto of the 343).[14] [3]

Kosovo war

In 2000, she contested the number of casualties by Serbians during the Kosovo War.[15] [3]

Books

All in French.

In popular culture

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Causeur . A propos de Causeur . 20 January 2023 . Élisabeth . Lévy.
  2. Web site: Élisabeth Lévy, sniper de rien. Cécile. Daumas. Libération. fr.
  3. News: Elisabeth Lévy, causeuse de troubles . Le Monde.fr . 12 December 2013 . fr . Ariane . Chemin.
  4. Sébastien Fontenelle, Mona Chollet, Olivier Cyran et Laurence de Cock, Les éditocrates 2 : Le cauchemar continue..., La Découverte, 5 avril 2018, 148 p. (ISBN 978-2-348-03552-4)
  5. Web site: Elisabeth Lévy – La biographie de Elisabeth Lévy avec Gala.fr. Gala.fr.
  6. Web site: Elisabeth Lévy remerciée de France-Culture. 8 July 2006 . L'Obs . fr.
  7. Web site: Ouverture du site causeur.fr . Paris-Communiqués . 19 November 2007.
  8. Web site: Qui soutient la presse d'extrême droite? . fr . Contretemps: Revue de critique communiste . René Monzat .

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    . 21 December 2010 .
  9. News: Face aux " climatosceptiques " de la télé, l'écologiste Claire Nouvian en appelle au CSA. Le Monde.fr. May 10, 2019. Le Monde.
  10. Web site: Renaud Camus: 'La liberté d'expression dans la France de 2020 n'est pas menacée: elle n'existe pas' . Lévy . Elisabeth. Pimentel . Martin . Camus . Renaud . 22 January 2021 . fr.
  11. Web site: Alain Finkielkraut reprend à son compte la théorie du "grand remplacement" de Renaud Camus . Mathieu . Dejean . 30 October 2017 . fr.
  12. Web site: Causeur déborde Valeurs actuelles sur sa droite . fr . 20 September 2021 . Aveline . Paul . Arrêt sur images.
  13. Web site: La ministre Elisabeth Moreno dénonce la Une "abjecte" de "Causeur" sur le "Grand remplacement" . fr . 17 September 2021 . Florian Guadalupe.
  14. Web site: Polémique après un "manifeste des 343 salauds" pour la prostitution . Alexandre . Boudet . 30 October 2013 . Huffington Post . AFP . fr.
  15. Kosovo : l'Insoutenable légèreté de l'information . 10.3917/deba.109.0004. 2000 . Lévy . Élisabeth . Le Débat . 109 . 2 . 4 . fr .