Alexandre del Valle

Marc d'Anna (born September 4, 1968[1]), writing under the pen name Alexandre del Valle,[2] is a French writer, professor, columnist, and political commentator. He is known primarily for his analysis of Islamic extremism, and his criticism of Erdogan's neo-Ottoman, Islamist, and post-kemalist Turkey. Del Valle is a proponent of the PanWest paradigm—the cooperation between the West and Russia against radical islamism—and coined the concept of "Red-green-brown alliance" in 2002.[3]

Alexandre del Valle
Born
Marc d'Anna

(1968-09-04) September 4, 1968[1]
Marseille, France
NationalityFrench
EducationInstitute of Political Studies, Paris
Institute of Political Studies, Aix-en-Provence
OccupationWriter
Political partyUnion for a Popular Movement (2002-2012)
Rally for the Republic (Formerly)
Spouse(s)Monica Altmann (2001–present)
WebsiteAlexandredelValle.com

His domains of interest focus on Islamic extremism, new geopolitical threats, civilizational conflicts, and terrorism, as well as Mediterranean issues such as Turkey's proposed accession to the European Union. Alexandre del Valle wrote on international relations and geopolitics of the Arab-Muslim world.[4]

Biography

Personal life

Del Valle was born in Marseille, France, on September 6, 1968[1] to Pieds-Noirs parents. His father was a Sicilian who settled first in Tunisia and later in Algeria and Marseille (South of France). His mother came from an anti-Franquist (Spaniard) family partly settled in Oran, Algeria and after in Marseille.[4]

Controversies

Del Valle's first book, Islamism and the United States: An Alliance against Europe,[5] sparked controversy in France and in the United States. In the book, Del Valle claimed the U.S. government was deliberately using Islam to destroy Europe.[5] This theory was criticized by Bat Ye'or in the Middle East Quarterly published in September 1998.[5] Although Ye'or reproached Del Valle for his hostility to the Clinton administration, she congratulated him for his attempt to "courageously expose the dangers of Islamism."[5]

In another article published in the Middle East Quarterly in Spring 2000,[6] French-American geopolitician Laurent Murawiec characterized Del Valle as hostile to Muslims and criticized his analysis of the United States' pro-Muslim strategy during the Cold War. In his response to Murawiec,[7] Del Valle wrote that "history and the tragedy of September 11 have proven me right." He claimed that Murawiec omitted to mention that his later books, such as Le Totalitarisme Islamiste a l'assaut des démocraties, have been labeled as both "pro-American and pro-Zionist."[8] Additionally, since the September 11 attacks in 2001, Del Valle has written articles published in Le Figaro and Politique Internationale where he calls for a union to be formed with the United States and in which he denounces all forms of anti-Western and anti-American feelings. Murawiec himself has written an essay which also deplores the present pro-Saudi and pro-Islamist strategy and politically correctness of American presidents who never dared nominating Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism as the real enemy and the supporters of radical Islam.[9]

In 2002, Del Valle was criticized by far-right, left-wing[10] and extreme-left magazines such as Le Monde Diplomatique[11] and the pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist MRAP.[12] Some extreme-right movements, believing that Alexandre del Valle had been close to their visions in his early writings on Islamism and America, denounce now his Zionism and the fact he was very close to the Jewish community.[13] or The "outing" of Alexandre del Valle, reveals its close links with the Zionist ultra-right.[14]

In an article published in April 2002,[15] French far-left-trotskyst organisation Ras l'front claims that Alexandre Del Valle had originally set out its arguments in far right-wing circles, especially during lectures at meetings of the ultra right or the New Right. Del Valle refutes the claims and bring the matter in courts.[16] These trials with peripeteias eventually resulted in a decision from the 11th Chamber of the Court of appeal of Paris in 2005, which dismissed Del Valle who carried out an action for defamation against Ras L'front (diffamation).[17][18]

In two other trials, Alexandre del Valle and his lawyer, Gilles-William Goldnadel, the French President of "Droit à la Sécurité" and "France Israël association" (who also was Oriana Fallaci's lawyer in France), won two other cases : one in 2006 against the MRAP, an anti-racist organization led by French communist Mouloud Aounit, and a second against Canal+ (TV Channel), in 2007 (17th court of Paris).[19] The 17th court of Paris dismissed the MRAP, who had published in 2003[20] a special report on anti-Arabs, Zionists and Far right networks in France. This MRAP Report blamed Alexandre del Valle and other intellectuals such as Guy Millière, Michel Darmon (former France-Israel's President) or William Goldnadel to be Islamophobes and to support Zionist organizations such as the UPJF (Union of French Jewish Chairmans), Likoud, KKL, or Bnai Brith. The 17th Court of Appeal decided that the MRAP did not have the right to accuse Alexandre del Valle to be "islamophobe" and was dismissed after having tried to make Del Valle and Guy Millière condemned for abusive action for defamation.[19]

Del Valle does not deny that he made errors in the past making speeches with controversial intellectuals from every political creed in the context of the presentations of his books. But he precises that his political "godfathers" were gaullists and former popular "resistants" such as Alain Griotteray, Pierre Marie Gallois, the former nuclear and geopolitical adviser of Charles De Gaulle, Gabriel Kaspereit and Jean Matteoli.[21]

Bibliography
  • Islamisme et États-Unis, une alliance contre l'Europe, L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne, 1997, ISBN 2-8251-1060-4
  • Guerres contre l'Europe, Bosnie, Kosovo, Techétchénie, Syrtes, 2000
  • Le Totalitarisme islamiste à l'assaut des démocraties, Syrtes, 2002
  • La Turquie dans l'Europe, un cheval de Troie islamiste?, Syrtes, 2004
  • Le Dilemme Turc, les vrais enjeux de la candidature d'Ankara, Syrtes, 2006
  • Perchè la Turchia non-deve entrare nell'Europa, Guerini, May 2009, Torino, Italy
  • A Islamizaçao de Europa, A civilisaçao edit, Lisboa, Portugal, June 2009
  • I Rossi Neri, Verdi: la convergenza degli Estremi opposti. Islamismo, comunismo, neonazismo, Lindau, 2010
  • Pourquoi on tue les chrétiens dans le monde aujourd'hui, la nouvelle islamophobie (The New Christianophobia, Why Have Christians Around the World Become Murder Targets?); Maxima, Paris, 2011, (soon published in the USA)
  • Le complexe occidental, Petit traité de déculpabilisation, Editions du Toucan, Paris, 2014.
  • Le Chaos syrien, Minorités et printemps arabes face à l'islamisme, [written with Randa Kassis a Syrian-Christian opponent]; Dows éditions, Paris, 2014.
  • Les vrais ennemis de l'Occident, du rejet de la Russie à l'islamisation des sociétés ouvertes, Editions du Toucan/ L'Artilleur, Paris, 2016 (The real enemies of the West, from the reject of Russia to the islamization of the open societies").
  • La strategie de l'intimidation, du terrorisme jihadiste à l'islamiquement correct, Editions du Toucan/L'Artilleur, Paris, 2018 (The Strategy of Intimidation, from the jihadist terrorism to the "islamically correcness"; to be soon translated into English).
gollark: Over here you choose post-16 school subjects somewhat.
gollark: Fascinating.
gollark: What subjects do you do?
gollark: You cannot "guarantee" things as much as make the probability quite high.
gollark: Have you done practice exam papers of some kind? Can you work out how your score on those compares to past results?

See also

References
  2. "Appétits extrémistes pour la tête de l'UMP". Libération.fr (in French). November 11, 2002. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  3. "Article Del Valle's Blog". alexandredelvalle.com.
  4. Alexandre del Valle. "Official Biography". Alexandre del Valle. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
  5. Bat Ye'or, Islamisme et Etats-Unis: Une Alliance contre l'Europe by Alexandre del Valle, meforum.org, 1998-09
  6. Laurent Murawiec. ""The Wacky World of French Intellectuals" by Laurent Murawiec". Meforum.org. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
  7. "Alexandredelvalle.com: Del Valle's response to Laurent Murawiec". Blog.alexandredelvalle.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
  8. Les néo-conservateurs made in France
  9. "Laurent MURAWIEC, La guerre d'après". Iismm.ehess.fr. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
  10. Xavier Ternisien, Le danger de l'islamophobie Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Le Monde, May 11, 2002
  11. Dominique Vidal, Au nom du combat contre l'antisémitisme, Le Monde diplomatique, December 2002
  12. Who is Alexandre Del Valle ? Archived December 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, info-turc.org, September 14, 2004
  13. "Les illusions perdues de l'intégration républicaine". Les-identitaires.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
  14. "Vers une crise dans la mouvance identitaire ?". Voxnr.com. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
  15. René Monzat, L'étonnant parcours d'Alexandre Del Valle. Portraits croisés d'un militant multicartes, Ras l'front, n°87, April 2002
  16. Mise au point d'Alexandre Del Valle, Le Monde diplomatique, March 2003
  17. Alexandre Del Valle perd en appel le procès intenté à Ras l'front Archived May 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Ras l'front, 2005-02
  18. Josianne Sberro, Interview de Johan Weisz Archived May 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Primo-Europe, May 13, 2006
  19. Naibed a dit… (February 27, 2004). "Elisseievna: Alexander Del Valle defended by Mrs. Delvalle Goldnagel". Elisseievna.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
  20. "Racisme Anti-Arabe Nouvelle Evolution" (PDF). June 8, 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 14, 2005. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  21. Rachid Kaci soutient Alexandre del Valle pour en finir avec le lynchage mediatique
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