“Europe is not about pragmatism, negotiations, deals. It’s an idea of how to speak to one another, while disagreeing with one another. That’s why it matters.”
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Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Georges Lévy is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" movement in 1976. His opinions, political activism, and publications have also been the subject of several controversies over the years.
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business · French public intellectual (born 1948) · philosopher · film director · screenwriter · journalist · novelist · businessperson · actor · film producer · publisher · writer · also Bernard-Henri Lévy, Bernard-Henri Georges Lévy, BHL, Lévy
Born 5 November 1948 · Q313509
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European liberalism is an English idea; you cannot truly be a liberal without admitting that the software of Europe is English.
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2026· 19 entries
“inventors of modern democracy”
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“European liberalism is an English idea; you cannot truly be a liberal without admitting that the software of Europe is English.”
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“What has happened is so much more important than this derisory criticism. What is important in this affair is that the devoir d”
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“I told them, I can be in contact with Nicolas Sarkozy; we are political adversaries, but I can try to persuade him to see you. What do you think about coming to Paris and meeting the president?”
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“All they have to do is do their job, and I don”
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“we need to say it again, the death of civilians in Gaza is not a massacre”
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“It was a truly brilliant and very believable hoax from the mind of a Canard Enchaîné journalist who remains a good philosopher all the same. So I was caught, as were the critics who reviewed the book when it came out. The only thing left to say, with no hard feelings, is kudos to the artist.”
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“Jews have a special obligation to support the Kurds”
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“Happy birthday, General Syrsky You saved Kyiv. You led one of the most spectacular counteroffensives in modern military history. And you’ve been the architect of the extraordinary resistance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The free world owes you a great deal. Slava Ukraini.”
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“My piece in @thefreepress. Antisemitism may be winning battles, but no, it won’t win the war. We need to show that antisemites are ignorant, grotesque, and totally uncool. Link in bio. #antisemitism www.thefp.com/p/bernard-he...”
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“L’héroïsme ukrainien sur les Champs Élysées. Émotion. Gratitude. Slava Ukraini. Et Heroyam Slava.”
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“The isolation of Israel is a historic moral failure and a defeat of humanity. www.jns.org/news/israel-...”
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“Not a single word about Hamas’s responsibility for holding its own people hostage and turning them into human shields. That is called blindness—or worse, cowardice. Shame on you, Prime Minister.”
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“Honored to have received yesterday an important prize : the 🇮🇹 Taormina International Book Festival Award, in Sicilia. @TaobukFestival #Italy”
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“Such an honor to have been in New York to accept the American Sephardi Federation Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award for Philosophy at the 28th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival earlier this month! youtu.be/RI3GfxAjNUU”
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“Betrayal and humiliation. That is how Trump treats America’s allies. I have been saying so ever since The Empire and the Five Kings. Here, my last column in Le Point. Israel is the latest case in a long series.”
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“Yesterday. The Tank with the New Jewish Theater. What if the next Dreyfus Affair happened in NY? MAGA: « Jews + warmongers ». Mamdani: « Jews = baby killers and genocide ». The 2 ingredients of a new Dreyfus Affair!”
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“Dans l’avion pour NYC. Sur scène, dès demain soir, pour le Dreyfus de Grumberg, adapté au « Tank », le théâtre expérimental et mythique de « off Broadway ». Cette aventure me plaît décidément beaucoup.”
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2025· 2 entries
Awarded Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts, Literature and Science (2025).
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The New York Times: Bernard-Henri Levy
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2023· 7 entries
Jewish Journal: Bernard-Henri Lévy Implores Documentarians to Film the Front Lines of War
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Awarded Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class (2023).
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Awarded Daniel Pearl Award (2023).
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Los Angeles Times: Bernard-Henri Lévy shows the fight for survival from the trenches in ‘Slava Ukraini’
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Yahoo: Review: Bernard-Henri Lévy shows the fight for survival from the trenches in 'Slava Ukraini'
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Deadline.com: Cohen Media Group Picks Up Bernard-Henri Lévy Doc ‘Slava Ukraini’
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Deadline.com: Bernard-Henri Lévy Doc ‘Slava Ukraini’ Heads To EFM As France TV Distribution Takes Int’l Rights
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2022· 2 entries
Forbes: Bernard-Henri Levy To Appear At Screenings Of His Documentary, “The Will To See”
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Shows Lévy visiting several countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic as he documents various atrocities and humanitarian crises
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2014· 1 entry
To speak at the launch of the first Bengali translation of this book and to open a memorial garden for Malraux at Dhaka University
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2013· 1 entry
Lévy criticized the international community for their acts during the Bosnian genocide
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2009· 1 entry
Lévy started a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl
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2007· 1 entry
Relations between them deteriorated during Sarkozy's 2007 presidential run in which Lévy backed the Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal and also described Sarkozy as "A man with a warrior vision of politics".
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2006· 1 entry
Lévy joined the British debate over Muslim women's veils by said to The Jewish Chronicle that wearing a veil had the effect of dehumanizing the wearer by hiding her face –and suggested, alluding to a passage by Emmanuel
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2004· 2 entries
In 2004, Lévy's wealth was estimated at 150 million euros.
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Lévy's wealth was estimated at 150 million euros
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Livre et droits humains award (2003).
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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
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded “Today” Prize (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
Was suspected of insider trading by the Commission des opérations de bourse
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Interallié for Les Derniers Jours de Charles Baudelaire (1988).
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“Ich bin ein Interventionist, kein Militarist. Krieg darf immer nur letztes Mittel sein.”
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Médicis (1984).
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1981· 1 entry
Lévy published L'Idéologie française ("The French Ideology"), in which he offers a dark picture of French history
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1971· 2 entries
Studied at École Normale Supérieure (1968–1971).
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Covering the Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan
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1948· 2 entries
Born 1948-11-05.
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In Béni Saf, French Algeria, to an affluent Sephardic Jewish (Algerian-Jewish) family
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