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Who is responsible for the Paris Olympics’ anti-Christian orgy of wokeness? The most prosaic and immediately accurate answer is the French government, which has had years to prepare for these Olympics, and surely must have known in advance about all the drag queens, the mockery of the Last Supper, and the rest. The rot, however, goes much deeper, and the disgraceful display had scarcely ended in Paris when some circles began to point fingers at another culprit: the Jews. In so doing, they demonstrated yet again how respectable antisemitism has become since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacres, and how divorced from reality this fashionable new hatred really is.
On Friday evening, an X user who has over 92,000 followers and calls himself “Orthodox Canonist” (he is clearly an Orthodox Christian, not an Orthodox Jew) outed the person whom he claimed was the culprit for the mockery of Christianity at the Olympics. Thomas Jolly is artistic director of the ceremonies for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, and so he is very much responsible for what a disgusted world saw on Friday, but “Orthodox Canonist” claimed to know something else about him, something that purportedly explained the entire anti-Christian bent of the Olympic ceremony: “The organizer of the 2024 Paris Olympics with all of it’s [sic] satanic, masonic & LGBTQ imagery is…. Jewish.”
Echoing this claim a few hours later was “Klaus Arminius,” who is apparently another Orthodox Christian and has 88,000 X followers: “Meet Thomas Jolly, the ‘artist’ behind the satanic and anti-Christian Paris Olympics’ ceremony. Thomas is a 42 year old jewish [sic] and gay man.” Neither “Orthodox Canonist” nor “Klaus Arminius,” however, offered any evidence for their claim; nor, as far as I could discover, did anyone else who made it.
Having just finished writing a book about antisemitism and its contemporary recrudescence, I was intrigued, and tried to find out whether this was true, and if so, to what extent Jolly’s alleged Jewishness guided his decision-making while planning Friday’s monstrosity. Repeated Internet searches with various relevant keywords, however, turned up nothing: neither Jolly nor anyone else seemed to have identified him as Jewish either by ancestry or upbringing or religious conviction.
Despite the fact that a generation of schoolchildren take Wikipedia as the infallible source for knowledge about anything and everything, anyone can still edit it, or at least anyone who isn’t known to be a dissident from the left’s agenda. Since the Olympics Opening Ceremony, Thomas Jolly’s page has been the site of a war between those who claim (again without any supporting evidence) he is Jewish and those who remove the claim for lack of a supporting citation.
Jolly’s Wikipedia page was first published on May 31, 2024. All it said at that time about his background was that he was a “French actor and theater and opera director.” By Friday, after a few minor edits, it still said essentially the same thing: “Thomas Jolly is a French actor and artistic director of La Piccola Familia, a theater company that he founded in Rouen in 2006.” After the Opening Ceremony, however, the edits started coming in fast: first, “Thomas Jolly is a French f@ggot and artistic director of La Piccola Familia, a theater company that he founded in Rouen in 2006.” Later: “Thomas Jolly is an artistic director who is notorious for mocking the Catholic faith when he depicted drag queens reenacting the last supper at his artistic display during the opening ceremony of the 2024 summer Olympics. The incident created an outrage among many Christian communities and was seen by many as a deliberate act of hatred for Christianity.” And finally, what was perhaps inevitable: “Thomas Jolly (born 1 February 1982 in Rouen) from a jewish [sic] family is a French actor and artistic director of La Piccola Familia…”
This was removed as unsourced, but there followed numerous attempts to insert the claim that Jolly was Jewish into his Wikipedia bio. None traced the claim to a source that actually said that Jolly was Jewish. On X, I asked “Orthodox Canonist” and “Klaus Arminius” to provide a source for their claims; neither answered, and “Orthodox Canonist” blocked me.
Now, Thomas Jolly may conceivably really be Jewish, but if so, neither he nor anyone else has spoken about it until now. What is much more likely, however, is that the claims that are now circulating about his being Jewish are simply manifestations of the new antisemitism. If something bad happens, “the Jews” must be behind it, and because they supposedly carry out their nefarious plots behind the scenes, no evidence need be adduced. Attacks on Christianity in particular must be the work of Jews; never mind that Macron’s government, like all leftist globalist regimes, hates Christianity for promoting the dignity of the individual, which the collectivists want so desperately to efface.
The Paris Olympics episode, which in reality had no connection to Jews or Judaism, was an illuminating glimpse into how post-Oct. 7 antisemitism works: anything negative is attributed to Jews, and no evidence is offered, or in Jew-hating circles, considered necessary. They all know, or think they know, the source of all evil in the world.
If you think that this kind of thinking led to pogroms and genocide in the past and could easily do so again in the future, you’re quite right.
I’ve noticed – based on my readings – that anti-Semitism is common in Orthodoxy, as is a soft spot for Muslims. Given the centuries of Muslim persecution of the Orthodox, I just don’t get it.
I suspect cowardice is the motivator here in that hatred of Jews rarely comes with any penalty but Moslems will hurt you pretty bad if you don’t side with them.
Russia has a high Muslim population. Many Muslims from the former Soviet Union are reported to be moderate. My devout Russian Orthodox friend (now deceased) assumed Muslims to be benign and knew nothing else. She would never have blamed the Jews for this globalist-inspired opening ceremony, however. I don’t see any antisemitism in these people. Their communities are very mixed. Those I know strongly support Israel. Many have friends who live in Israel or who have lived there.
It reminds me of the Stockholm Syndrome.. It’s like Chickens For KFC..
The use of the word “masonic” (Masonic) in this context is in a long tradition of anti-Semitism. Masons were blamed for the French Revolution and later Jews were added as culpable.
I’ve seen a couple of posts telling everyone that a Jew created the demonic Olympic ceremony.
It was disgusting and everyone should boycott it and tell the sponsors why.
If Jews had ANYTHING to do with these Olympics, the “Palestinian” team would not be allowed to wear their graphics anti-Semitic uniforms, and the Israeli team would be allowed to wear the yellow ribbons they brought.
The Muslims eat shit
The French eat the muslims’ shit
The international media eats whatever shit they can get their hands on
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If this episode ruins the Olympics for the Jew-haters, GOOD.
1972 ruined the Olympics for US…..so fuck ‘Em !
People still watch the Olympics?
I watch the women’s figure skating. ~
I don’t care which one from what nation takes the gold….
I simply watch them skating, ~
…with lust in my heart. ❤️
…like James Earl Carter. 😍
Hetero male. G0d bless you!
Yeah, those figure skaters tend to have nice butts.
THEY’RE LAUGHING! THEY DON’T CARE! They planned it, knew the criticism, and had their talking points ready, even added a “Sorry. Didn’t mean to offend.” YES THEY DID! IN YOUR FACE!
BUT WHY ALWAYS CHRISTIANS AND JESUS AND NEVER ANY OTHER RELIGION…. LIKE ISLAM and mocking Muslims and Mohammad?
Two weeks ago, they laughed about Trump, “Crooks needs to take more shooting lessons.” “Sorry he missed.” “He is a hero.” Now they laugh about Jews. An Israeli Flag was ripped off of a pole in a display of other Flags. The crowd cheered. Try ripping off the Palestinian or a Rainbow flag and see what happens? LeBron as the Flag Bearer??? THEY DON’T CARE! THEY LOOK ALL OVER THE NET AND LAUGH!
King Solomon was right (again)! There is nothing new under the sun.
The world repeatedly becomes myopic whenever a scapegoat is needed to absolve itself of their wanton, moral decay and thereby self-inflicted problems.
The current affiliations of many secularists with the black arts (Satanism et al) is not particularly strange, when one understands the debased activities being engaged in and considered “normal” within these dark, sexually deviant paradigms.
The world stage of the Olympics has long been permanently tarnished for having allowed world politics to catastrophically enter its gates in 1972 in Munich as Jewish athletes, there to compete for their country, Israel, were baselessly murdered by a militant “palestinian” group called Black September.
As the current, repulsive opening ceremony for the Olympics unfolded on the world stage, this morally disgusting display unequivocally demonstrated FRANCE’S cultural acceptance of religious disrespect, sexual depravity and THEIR capitulation to the dark paradigm of all things secular.’ And they’re not the only ones.
When faced with this unseemly spectacle, some Christians, understandably revolted, looked for a fast, convenient scapegoat for this offense rather than condemning a country allowing such disregard.
Whether Orthodox Christianity has faced the truth or not, many other branches of their faith are beginning to accept some to nearly all of what was portrayed .on that stage.
Looking for an immediate suspect for this debauchery to tar and feather, the same, old trope returned…
,And yet, some Christians, in their moral self righteousness and offense, immediately blame someone they denounce as being a Jew.. It is the fall of humanity into this secular abyss that is sourcing such darkness. So, may I humbly I suggest this to the nations…Mirror, mirror on the wall…who is fairest of them all? .Go ahead, look in the mirror, point your finger,
The person you’re pointing at is YOU!!
Speaking as a Christian it doesn’t matter if that guy is Jewish or not. Every person has an identity. Although if he is French that explains a lot. They have capitulated to Islam and kicked God to the curb. Notice that they never offend Islam?
The French government will not allow Frenchwomen competing in the Olympics to wear headscarves. So, yes, the politicians running France do things calculated to offend Muslims. The French secular left and much of the center are anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, and anti-Islamic. The left does pander to Muslims, but as a racialized minority and as immigrants. The left wants their votes but despises their religion,
Why make fun of Christianity and not Islam? No one made of Christianity for the first 1500 years, till the Reformation started. If Islam is on the same schedule, it’s still a bit early.
Mostly, former Christians make fun of Christianity. But Jesus was a Jew, and Jews know how crazy and humorous Jews can be, so are often willing to help. Probably, when Moslems start to mellow out, there’ll be both Jews and Christians willing to help find the humor.
I try to keep in mind that none of these ideas are new. What was shown in the opening ceremony was just people expressing their ideas. Probably not even the expression was new. What was new was openly showing it to a wide audience.
Similarly, none of the antisemitism is new. I suppose we’re lucky that some antisemitic artist wasn’t in charge.
As with the 1936 Summer Olympics?
Not surprisingly, Candace Owens has found this smear and is trying to amplify it.
Paris is no surprise to me.
What does shock me is the Jew hatred right here in the United States, the last place I would expect.
This guy has no sense of humor. Hence the awful opening ceremony
It would have made more sense for them to have the current Pope Bergoglio as Jesus at the Last Demonic Supper instead of a fat lesbian.
Where do you people get off on continually thinking you are guilt free and claim.the whole world to be antisemitic it’s ridiculous .
We look at the behavior evidenced throughout the world today and world history.
And you?
How strange that in an article bemoaning the assertion that Jolly is Jewish without proof, you propose that the ANONYMOUS online profiles are “obviously Orthodox Christians.”
Physician, heal thyself.