On October 29, Guillaume Meurice, columnist on France Inter radio, made a dubious joke during a sketch and compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “a kind of Nazi without a foreskin”. A sequence which shocked many Internet users who expressed their annoyance on social networks.
Among the insurgents, the actress Aure Atika who has never hidden her belonging to the Jewish community and who, in the midst of the war between Palestine and Israel, expressed her anger. “Goodbye France Inter” she then wrote on X (formerly Twitter) to make it clear that she will no longer listen to the famous radio station. If some Internet users rallied to her side, others expressed regret at the fact that she was showing a form of selective indignation. Finally, several people have compared Guillaume Meurice to Dieudonné, a comedian known for his numerous controversial sketches mocking the Jewish community.
Bruno Solo defends Guillaume Meurice on France 5
This Saturday, November 4, 2023, the actor Bruno Solo, who was present in the premises of France Inter when Guillaume Meurice did this controversial sketch, was this time on the set of the show C L’Hebdo on France 5. 59-year-old actor was then asked about the atmosphere that reigned at the time of the “drama”: “I do not intervene in the column of a comedian who is paid to do it, after all I actually heard the debates because I am neither deaf nor blind. Was it the right timing to do We can discuss this joke.” he said.
“However, I heard some say that what he did was on the level of Dieudonné, I do not agree. Dieudonné is a negationist who engages in activism, which is not when not even the case of Guillaume Meurice who made a joke that could be considered in bad taste. It’s a debate. Humor is something extremely complex but he made a line of humor and he the right”.
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