Anti-<i>sociologisme</i>, Zionism, and Islamophobia in Philippe Val’s <i>Charlie Hebdo</i>

In this article, I examine Charlie Hebdo, under the editorship of Philippe Val from 1994 to 2005, and how it reported on themes related Islam Muslims, both in France abroad, particularly relation satanic breasts controversy Hebron massacre 1994, Kosovo war, 9/11, 2005 banlieues riots France. argue that despite plurality voices within magazine, succeeded through his editorial line establish promote a link between antisemitism Muslims produce narrative harbours Islamophobia. By conflating Arabs pro-Palestinianism postcolonialism, by arguing anti-Semitism is inherent Islam, sowed first seeds Islamophobia Hebdo’s as early 1994. This reached its culmination 9/11 then Mohamed caricatures, has consistently irreversibly continued shape magazine’s ethos.