A review of his movie ''The Oath of Tobtuk'', which he wrote, produced, directed and starred in, celebrating the tragic events in Libya which took 40,000 lives after Levy's personal intervention for "humanitarian purposes", describes Levy as a self-promoting militant philosopher leftist intellectual.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120610005656/http://www.france24.com/en/20120606-libyan-war-brought-you-bernard-henri-levy-sarkozy-clinton-obama] </ref>