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'''Bernard-Henri Lévy''' (born in Algeria in 1948, to a wealthy Sephardi Jewish family) is a French journalist. He studied at the ''École Normale Supérieure'' in 1968, from which he graduated with a degree in philosophy. A ''pop philosopher'', Lévy was one of the leaders of the "Nouvelle Philosophie", a French movement in 1976 vaguely inspired by [[Michel Foucault]] (who had mixed feelings about the association).  They are known for making appearances on television and writing books about philosophy but abstaining from publishing in any philosophical journals or engaging in debates with their peers.<ref name="Tarifa"/> He 's been labeled by those who know him well and have worked closely with him as an intellectual fraud and [[Islamofascist]].<ref>https://theremustbejustice.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/bernard-henry-levy-portrait-of-an-islamofascist-jew/ </ref>
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'''Bernard-Henri Lévy''' (born in Algeria in 1948, to a wealthy Sephardi Jewish family) is a French journalist. He studied at the ''École Normale Supérieure'' in 1968, from which he graduated with a degree in philosophy. A ''pop philosopher'', Lévy was one of the leaders of the "Nouvelle Philosophie", a French movement in 1976 vaguely inspired by [[Michel Foucault]] (who had mixed feelings about the association).  They are known for making appearances on television and writing books about philosophy but abstaining from publishing in any philosophical journals or engaging in debates with their peers.<ref name="Tarifa"/> He 's been labeled by those who know him well and have worked closely with him as an intellectual fraud and [[Islamofascist]].<ref>https://theremustbejustice.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/bernard-henry-levy-portrait-of-an-islamofascist-jew/</ref>
    
An aged [[Jean Paul Sartre]] thought he was a CIA agent.
 
An aged [[Jean Paul Sartre]] thought he was a CIA agent.
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A philosopher who’s never taught the subject in any university, a journalist who creates a cocktail mingling the true, the possible, and the totally false, a patch-work filmmaker, a writer without a real literary oeuvre, he is the icon of a media-driven society in which simple appearance weighs more than the substance of things. BHL is thus first and foremost a great communicator, the PR man of the only product he really knows how to sell: himself... BHL changes his political allegiances like one of his shirts.<ref>
 
A philosopher who’s never taught the subject in any university, a journalist who creates a cocktail mingling the true, the possible, and the totally false, a patch-work filmmaker, a writer without a real literary oeuvre, he is the icon of a media-driven society in which simple appearance weighs more than the substance of things. BHL is thus first and foremost a great communicator, the PR man of the only product he really knows how to sell: himself... BHL changes his political allegiances like one of his shirts.<ref>
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[http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/the_lies_of_bernard_henri_leacutevy/ The Lies of Bernard-Henri Lévy.]</ref><ref>https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c1_1338187315 </ref>
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[http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/the_lies_of_bernard_henri_leacutevy/ The Lies of Bernard-Henri Lévy.]</ref><ref>https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c1_1338187315</ref>
    
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A review of his movie ''The Oath of Tobruk'',  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> The movie was made with an eye to being his entry at the [[Cannes Film Festival]]. The film depicts the adventures of a fascist warmonger with a cameo appearance by [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]].<ref> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/what-the-state-department-didnt-want-you-to-see-in-clintons-emails/article/2564944 </ref>
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A review of his movie ''The Oath of Tobruk'',  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> The movie was made with an eye to being his entry at the [[Cannes Film Festival]]. The film depicts the adventures of a fascist warmonger with a cameo appearance by [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]].<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/what-the-state-department-didnt-want-you-to-see-in-clintons-emails/article/2564944</ref>
    
== About Dominique Strauss-Kahn ==
 
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On May 16, 2011 Lévy defended ex IMF Chief [[Dominique Strauss-Kahn]]. He wrote:     
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On May 16, 2011, Lévy defended ex IMF Chief [[Dominique Strauss-Kahn]]. He wrote:     
    
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