JTA reports that a French court found Le Monde and the authors of a commentary guilty of racist defamation against Israel. The journalists were ordered to pay a symbolic fine of one Euro, while the paper was ordered to publish a condemnation of “Israel-Palestine: The Cancer”, originally published in 2002.
Here’s one snippet from the original article that was cited by the court:
One has trouble imagining that a nation of refugees, descendants of the people who have suffered the longest period of persecution in the history of humanity, who have suffered the worst possible scorn and humiliation, would be capable of transforming themselves, in two generations, into a dominating people, sure of themselves, and, with the exception of an admirable minority, into a scornful people finding satisfaction in humiliating others.
(Hat tip: Tom Gross)
UPDATE: See the original article in full here.
