Sophia Aram was Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine’s guest in C to you Tuesday May 7, 2024, on France 5. Asked about the controversy linked to Guillaume Meurice’s comments on France Interthe comedian took a vigorous position in favor of the radio, which has just suspended the columnist, reports Pure Media.
“It’s painful that an entire editorial team, an entire channel, is reduced to a rotten joke, because that’s what’s happening, that’s what we’re experiencingdeclared Sophia Aram, in reference to Guillaume Meurice’s joke who twice compared Benyamin Netanyahu to a “nazi without foreskin”. We’re really in the crazy place. We are bringing all of France Inter back to this rotten joke.”
“Bring him back to his Jewishness”
“Nazifying a Jew is rotten. Repeating it is rotten! continued the comedian, herself a columnist on France Inter. There are other ways to say that Netanyahu is trash. We know it’s trash. There were other ways than to bring him back to his Jewishness.”
A columnist of C to you Sophia Aram then questioned the question of freedom of expression, raised by this affair. To which the comedian replied that Guillaume Meurice had complete freedom to say what he wanted. “It’s still a rotten joke. We all have the right to do itshe explained. And it is also his responsibility to consider that today, because of what he did, this rotten joke, the entire channel is associated with this rotten joke.”
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