One of France’s most popular entertainers and a potential candidate in the upcoming presidential elections publicly claimed that Jews and anti-Semitism “do not exist.” Interviewed in a Lyon weekly last week, Dieudonn , a former humorist turned aspiring politician, claimed that “Jews and Muslims do not exist” and called the Jewish people “a sect” and “a scam.”
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