French comedian secures Iranian funds to combat Zionism

01 December 2009

The French comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala has announced that he secured funding from Iran for films meant to “combat Zionism” in France. Dieudonné and the head of France’s Anti-Zionist Party, which Dieudonné helped to found earlier this year, said the support was obtained during a recent meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran and that it would be used to finance film projects aimed at “combating Zionism head-on” in France.

“We have received a significant budget that will permit us to make films at the level of those made by Hollywood, which is the armed branch of Zionist culture,” said Dieudonné, adding that Hollywood films influenced by the “American-Zionist axis” were stigmatizing Arabs, among others. He said that his new movie projects filmed in Iran, and possibly Venezuela and Cuba, would be about slavery and colonialism.

Dieudonné told reporters that "Ahmadinejad is better loved in Iran than Sarkozy in France". He commended the Iranian leader for "surviving a media lynch" and called protests against the hard-line leader’s re-election in June "Zionist propaganda".

The well-known French comedian has been convicted and fined in the past for anti-Semitic statements, including likening Jews to slave traders, and for hosting a performance in which a notorious Holocaust denier is awarded a prize by an actor dressed as a Jewish concentration camp prisoner. He also referred to Holocaust remembrance as "pornographic".

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