From Paul Charney, ZF Chairman:
“There should be no question that the quenelle is a
symbol of pure hatred against the Jewish people. It was invented and popularised
by a man, Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, whose entire raison d'être appears to consist
of ridiculing and denigrating the memory of the 6 million Jewish men, women, and
children murdered during the Holocaust. Its design as an inverted fascist salute
enables its supporters to indulge themselves in the sickening thrill of publicly
mocking the historic persecution of Jews, albeit in the most cowardly way
imaginable. And of course, the defence that the symbol is merely against ‘the
system’ or ‘the establishment’ is no defence either, since it implicitly
promotes the idea that Jews are intrinsically part of whatever political order
is being challenged at the time, therefore propagating the anti-Semitic myth of
Jewish global domination.”