Bernard-Henri Lévy the Godfather of the Arab Spring

By: Sonja

The story of Bernard-Henri Lévy (French: born 5 November 1948 in Alegeria and at a young age moved to Paris, France with his parents. Bernard-Henri Lévy is a French-Jewish public intellectual and author. Often referred to today in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the “Nouveaux Philosophes” (New Philosophers) movement in 1976. Also, to be considered as the Godfather of the Arab Spring and other wartorned countries around the world.

Since the early 21st century, he has become more well known for his exploration of Islamic militancy. In 2010, The Jerusalem Post named Lévy 45th on a list of the world’s 50 most influential Jews: Bernard Henri Lévy.

In the 1990s, Lévy was one of the first French intellectual to call for European and American intervention in the Bosnian War during the break-up of Yugoslavia after the fall of the Soviet Union. He spoke out early about the abuses of Serb concentration camps which were holding Muslims. He referred to the Jewish experience in the Holocaust as providing a lesson that mass murder cannot be ignored by those in other nations.

When his father died in 1995, Lévy became the manager of the Becob company. He sold it in 1997 for 750 million francs to the French entrepreneur François Pinault.

At the end of the 1990s, with Benny Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut, Lévy founded an Institute on Levinassian Studies at Jerusalem, in honor of Emmanuel Levinas.

He is member of nonprofit advocacy group JCall. In March 2006, Lévy was one of twelve signatories of a letter entitled, “MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism.”‘ They were addressing concerns for free speech and thought in response to violent and deadly protests in the Muslim worldrelated to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy that arose in Denmark.

Who Killed Daniel Pearl

In 2003, Lévy wrote an account of his efforts to track the murderer of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was taken captive and beheaded by Islamic extremists the previous year. At the time of Pearl’s death, Lévy was visiting Afghanistan as French President Jacques Chirac’s special envoy. He spent the next year in Pakistan, India, Europe and the United States trying to uncover why Pearl’s captors held and executed him. The resulting book, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, argues it was because, Pearl knew too much about the links between Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence and al-Qaeda.

In 2008, Bernard-Henri Levy wanted to personally polish height participate in Georgia – as he did earlier in Bosnia and Afghanistan. He traveled to Gori, the city that had just been bombed by the Russian Air Force and spoke with injuries and people. “They burned and looted the city. They have made ​​a ghost town, “skewed Levy in an account of his journey in Le Monde newspaper. He was talking about fires, explosions and the smell of corpses.

But three days after the publication stated his companions that they had not been in Gori; They were stopped at the edge of town.

At the opening of the “Democracy and its Challenges” conference in Tel Aviv (May 2010) Lévy gave a very high estimation of the Israel Defense Forces, saying “I have never seen such a democratic army, which asks itself so many moral questions. There is something unusually vital about Israeli democracy.

In March 2011, he engaged in talks with Libyan rebels in Benghazi, and publicly promoted the international acknowledgement of the recently formed National Transitional Council. Later that month, worried about the 2011 Libyan civil war, he prompted and then supported Nicolas Sarkozy’s seeking to persuade Washington, and ultimately the United Nations, to intervene in Libya to prevent a massacre in Benghazi.

 

On 9 November 2011, his book, La guerre sans l’aimer, which tells the story of his Libyan spring, was published.

In May 2011, Lévy argued for military intervention in Syria against Bashar al-Assad after violence against civilians in response to the 2011 Syrian uprising.[23] He repeated his position in a letter to the Weekly Standard in August 2013.

A few years ago he published American Vertigo: a book about his long journey through the United States. Quite a few critics called it a string of cliches about U.S.. It’s almost megalomaniac mix of activities that makes Levy elusive to many. “He is a philosopher without a chair, he engages in politics without being elected, he writes reports, but is not a journalist and he operates without diplomacy diplomatic passport,” summed daily Le Figaro together. Levy is rich, powerful and vain. Its capacity is estimated at tens to two hundred million – a legacy of his father, who was a successful entrepreneur. He has friends in politics (left and right), in business and in the media, which he often uncritically by questioning or portrayed in France.

Involvement in the Ukraine?

Yes there he is again: