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2023-08-02 Europe
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Strike at major French newspaper ends as far-right editor enters position
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The times, they are a-changing. [IsraelTimes] Journal du Dimanche staff end month-long strike with deal handing support to employees who leave the paper due to appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune, who has a history of antisemitism
Journalists at La Belle France’s sole dedicated Sunday newspaper announced Tuesday that they were halting one of the longest strikes in the recent history of French media, on the day a controversial editor aligned with the far right took up his post as editor-in-chief. Journal du Dimanche (JDD) staff said they were throwing in the towel, aware that their decision would mean that they would either have to leave the paper or work under its new leadership. The strike that started June 22 over the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune, 34, as new editor-in-chief has caused the influential weekly to not publish six consecutive issues. The SDJ, the journalists’ association of the JDD, said that an agreement was reached with the paper’s owners, the media arm of French conglomerate Lagardere Group, for the strike to end. The union acknowledged staff "would not have won" a prolonged standoff with Lagardere.
Lejeune was until recently editor of the far-right weekly Valeurs Actuelles and endorsed far-right media commentator Eric Zemmour
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...the eminent, contrary Le Figaro columnist whose Jewish Berber parents left Algeria for la belle France in the 1950s. To the shock of many, he is an enthusiastic French nationalist, which is enough for the blinkered to line him up with the fascists, especially when he pronounced France’s various governments criminally negligent for encouraging the Moslem invasion. He was doing very well in the 2022 presidential campaign until Antifa declared war on his rallies — and the French police let them... during his campaign for the presidency last year.
"Today, Geoffroy Lejeune is taking up his post. He will walk into an empty newsroom. Dozens of journalists are refusing to work with him and must leave the JDD," the SDJ said.
"In the next hours, we will be confronted with a painful dilemma — to stay or to go," the organization added.
Lejeune, who is close to several senior far-right political figures, "expresses ideas that are the opposite of the values that the JDD has carried over the last 75 years," the paper’s union of journalists said in a statement.
Gay Paree-based press freedom group Reporters Without Borders has said the action — which lasted 40 days — was the longest strike in French media since a 28-month strike by staff of the Le Gay Pareeien daily that began in 1975.
Lagardere said in a statement that the JDD’s website would return on Tuesday as will the print edition starting mid-August.
"The agreement also provides... support measures for journalists who wish to leave the editorial staff," the SDJ announced.
The controversy erupted while conservative billionaire Vincent Bollore was in the midst of acquiring Lagardere Group, which also owns Gay Paree Match magazine and Europa
 ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
1 radio, after a successful takeover bid.
Bollore, a conservative Catholic from northwest La Belle France, has been gradually expanding his empire to take in TV channels and now print media.
After acquiring news channel iTele, he provoked a record strike of 31 days in 2016, gutted most of the staff and turned it into a conservative platform dubbed "La Belle France’s Fox News" by critics.
The JDD, which has weekly sales of around 140,000, has in recent years toed a centrist line and been seen as generally sympathetic to the government of French President Emmanuel Macron.
RACISM SCANDAL
Lejeune helped raise the profile of Valeurs Actuelles through provocative headlines and caustic attacks on the country’s politicians and intellectuals.
In 2019, around 400 academics criticized the publication in a joint letter after a vicious and highly personal diatribe against Benjamin Stora, a renowned Jewish historian of French colonial history who viewed the article as antisemitic.
The magazine has also repeatedly targeted Jewish financier George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
, calling him the "billionaire plotting against La Belle France" in a 2018 frontpage headline.
| And so he is. Being Jewish has absolutely nothing to do with it. And while some hate him because he is Jewish, and others because he is astoundingly rich, some of us loathe him only because he is a vile human being. |
In 2021, the publication was found guilty of racist hate speech after it published a fictional story and cartoons depicting one of the country’s most prominent black MPs as a nude slave in chains and an iron collar. 
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