(AFP) The Paris region has stripped a French journalist and anti-Islamism activist of an award after she shared a controversial post comparing Israel’s bombardment of Gaza to the Holocaust.
Zineb El Rhazoui was in 2019 awarded the Simone Veil prize, named after the French Holocaust survivor and trailblazing feminist politician, for her work “defending secularism, fighting against all forms of obscurantism and for equality between women and men.”
The Moroccan-born writer and television commentator on Saturday reposted a statement on X, formerly Twitter, appearing to accuse Israel of “genocide” and describing its policies against Palestinians as similar to those of the Nazis against Jews during World War II.
