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Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French national who is believed to have fought with jihadists in Syria, was extradited this week from France to Belgium to face trial for the May 24 murders at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels. He was arrested on May 30 in the French port city of Marseille during a routine customs inspection, in which he was found to be carrying weapons similar to the ones used in the attack on the museum. He has denied any involvement in the murders.
The undated photo of the lawyers shows them performing the quenelle with the gestures inventor, the French comedian Dieudonne Mbala Mbala, who has several convictions for inciting racial hatred against Jews and has written, directed, produced and starred in the 2012 film called The Antisemite.
Earlier this year, Manuel Valls, Frances former interior minister, said the quenelle the act of folding ones arm over ones chest while pointing downward with the other arm was an anti-Semitic gesture, an inverted Nazi gesture which may violate Frances laws against incitement.
Valls, who is now Frances prime minister, made the assertion based on hundreds of photos online of people performing the quenelle at sites connected to the Holocaust or Jews, or while holding a pineapple in an allusion to a joke created by Dieudonne to suggest the Holocaust never happened or to mock it without breaking laws forbidding Holocaust denial. Dieudonne coined the phrase shoananas a mashup of the Hebrew world for the genocide and the French word for pineapple.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.608459?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
merrily
(45,251 posts)I had no idea about this gesture. Now I about something I was clueless about five minutes ago.
Thanks, sufrommich.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)It's all the rage with anti semites.
merrily
(45,251 posts)BTW, totally off topic the other meaning of quenelle in cooking is to form a food like ice cream into an egg or football like oval because it is thought to look better on the plate that way. I've been trying to figure out how a long established term in cooking relates to the name for this gesture, but nothing is coming to me.
Time for Google again.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)I just knew the term as a nazi salute.
merrily
(45,251 posts)If Chuck and Katie drop by with the baby.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I once followed a Cuisinart recipe and made seafood quenelles that turned out fantastic. This is the first I've heard of the word being used to describe a hate gesture.
merrily
(45,251 posts)come across during the rest of my day. And I really like learning.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Godwin wins again.