Serge July (born 27 December 1942) is a French journalist, founder of the daily '' Libération'', and a prominent figure in French politics from the 1970s through the 1990s. In recent times, he has been active in French organizations working in support of journalists taken hostage in Syria.

Critics

In 1978, he published an article criticizing the television series ''

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

'', invited Pierre Guillaume,

negationist Historical negationism, also called denialism, is falsification or distortion of the historical record. It should not be conflated with '' historical revisionism'', a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinter ...

founder of the bookstore, La Vieille Taupe and supports the freedom of speech of Robert Faurisson. On July 4, 1983, he was condemned by the 17th chamber of the Paris judicial tribunal, following the complaint of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (

LICRA The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism—or Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme (LICRA) in French—was established in 1927, and is opposed to intolerance, xenophobia and exclusion. In 1927, French journ ...

), of having published in a "Courrier readers" of July 31, 1982, an anti-Semitic letter, accused of defamation, incitement to hatred and racial violence.

Works

* (with Alain Geismar) ''Vers la guerre civile'', 1969 * ''Les années Mitterrand : histoire baroque d'une normalisation inachevée'', 1986 * ''Le salon des artistes'', 1989

References

External links

My Uncle on Eurochannel
1942 births Living people French male journalists French newspaper founders Journalists from Paris {{France-journalist-stub