Nazi History Book Party Cancelled By French Embassy Over Israel-Palestinian Passage; Author Says 'Fundamentalist Jews' To Blame

Last night, the French embassy in New York cancelled a book party for Carmen Callil‘s Bad Faith — her account of Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, the Vichy government official who organized the deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz — because of complaints over a passage in the postscript that says Israel has oppressed Palestinians. GalleyCat reports that it took just “a handful of emails for the French to lose their resolve.” One of those e-mails was from a Wall Street Journal editorial board member, who was later shocked to learn the French embassy had caved.