Alexandre del Valle

Del Valle was born in Marseille, France, on September 6, 1968[1] to Pieds-Noirs parents. His father was a Sicilian who settled first in Tunisia, and later in Algeria and Marseille (Southern France). His mother came from an anti-Franquist Spaniard family partly settled in Oran, Algeria, and later in Marseille.[4]

In 2001 he married Monica Altmann, an Argentine intellectual of Jewish descent involved in the Israeli cause.[5]

Marc d'Anna joined the General Secretariat of National Defense in 1997, where he was editor-analyst of the Facts and Trends Letter of the International and Strategic Affairs section. He then worked in the territorial and international civil service before founding his consulting firm in Brussels.[5]

He is also a teacher in geopolitics at Sup de Co La Rochelle and at IPAG [6] and works at the European University of Rome and at the International Institute of Geopolitics. He was an associate researcher at the Institut Choiseul until 2014,[7] and co-founder of the Mediterranean Geopolitical Observatory (based in Cyprus).[8]

As Alexandre del Valle, he was a columnist for Nouvelle Liberté (Marseille), La Une, Le Figaro Magazine, Le Figaro, Le Spectacle du Monde, Israel Magazine, Liberal (Italy), France-Soir,[9] Atlantico10 . He writes regularly for Atlantico, Le Figaro and Current Values.

He has collaborated on several geopolitical reviews, Herodotus, Strategic, Geostrategic, Nova Storica, Risk, International Policy, Outre-Terre, Daedalos Papers, Geopolitical affairs, Geoeconomics.[8] It focuses on the geopolitics of the Arab-Muslim world.[9]

He is a member of various think tanks, such as the Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics. He is a director of the consultancy firm and think tank Géopol Consultings.

In 2019, he took part in the trip to Sicily organized by Odeia (a branch of Wagram Voyages), which according to France Soir illustrates this company's links with the extreme right.[10]

Del Valle's first book, Islamism and the United States: An Alliance against Europe,[11] sparked controversy in France and in the United States. In the book, Del Valle claimed the U.S. government was deliberately using Islam to destroy Europe.[11] This theory was criticized by Bat Ye'or in the Middle East Quarterly published in September 1998.[11] Although Ye'or reproached Del Valle for his hostility to the Clinton administration, she congratulated him for his attempt to "courageously expose the dangers of Islamism."[11]

In another article published in the Middle East Quarterly in Spring 2000,[6] French-American geopolitician Laurent Murawiec characterized Del Valle as hostile to Muslims and criticized his analysis of the United States' pro-Muslim strategy during the Cold War. In his response to Murawiec,[12] Del Valle wrote that "history and the tragedy of September 11 have proven me right." He claimed that Murawiec omitted to mention that his later books, such as Le Totalitarisme Islamiste a l'assaut des démocraties, have been labeled as both "pro-American and pro-Zionist."[13] Additionally, since the September 11 attacks in 2001, Del Valle has written articles published in Le Figaro and Politique Internationale where he calls for a union to be formed with the United States and in which he denounces all forms of anti-Western and anti-American feelings. Murawiec himself has written an essay which also deplores the present pro-Saudi and pro-Islamist strategy and politically correctness of American presidents who never dared nominating Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism as the real enemy and the supporters of radical Islam.[14]

In 2002, Del Valle was criticized by far-right, left-wing[15] and extreme-left magazines such as Le Monde Diplomatique[16] and the pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist MRAP.[17] Some extreme-right movements, believing that Alexandre del Valle had been close to their visions in his early writings on Islamism and America, denounce now his Zionism and the fact he was very close to the Jewish community.[18] or The "outing" of Alexandre del Valle, reveals its close links with the Zionist ultra-right.[19]

In an article published in April 2002,[20] French far-left-trotskyst organisation Ras l'front claims that Alexandre Del Valle had originally set out its arguments in far right-wing circles, especially during lectures at meetings of the ultra right or the New Right. Del Valle refutes the claims and bring the matter in courts.[21] These trials with peripeteias eventually resulted in a decision from the 11th Chamber of the Court of appeal of Paris in 2005, which dismissed Del Valle who carried out an action for defamation against Ras L'front (diffamation).[22][23]

In two other trials, Alexandre del Valle and his lawyer, Gilles-William Goldnadel, the French President of "Droit à la Sécurité" and "France Israël association" (who also was Oriana Fallaci's lawyer in France), won two other cases : one in 2006 against the MRAP, an anti-racist organization led by French communist Mouloud Aounit, and a second against Canal+ (TV Channel), in 2007 (17th court of Paris).[24] The 17th court of Paris dismissed the MRAP, who had published in 2003[25] a special report on anti-Arabs, Zionists and Far right networks in France. This MRAP Report blamed Alexandre del Valle and other intellectuals such as Guy Millière, Michel Darmon (former France-Israel's President) or William Goldnadel to be Islamophobes and to support Zionist organizations such as the UPJF (Union of French Jewish Chairmans), Likoud, KKL, or Bnai Brith. The 17th Court of Appeal decided that the MRAP did not have the right to accuse Alexandre del Valle to be "islamophobe" and was dismissed after having tried to make Del Valle and Guy Millière condemned for abusive action for defamation.[24]

Del Valle does not deny that he made errors in the past making speeches with controversial intellectuals from every political creed in the context of the presentations of his books. But he precises that his political "godfathers" were gaullists and former popular "resistants" such as Alain Griotteray, Pierre Marie Gallois, the former nuclear and geopolitical adviser of Charles De Gaulle, Gabriel Kaspereit and Jean Matteoli.[26]

• Islamisme et États-Unis, une alliance contre l'Europe, L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne, 1997, ISBN 2-8251-1060-4
• Guerres contre l'Europe, Bosnie, Kosovo, Techétchénie, Syrtes, 2000
• Le Totalitarisme islamiste à l'assaut des démocraties, Syrtes, 2002
• La Turquie dans l'Europe, un cheval de Troie islamiste?, Syrtes, 2004
• Le Dilemme Turc, les vrais enjeux de la candidature d'Ankara, Syrtes, 2006
• Perchè la Turchia non-deve entrare nell'Europa, Guerini, May 2009, Torino, Italy
• A Islamizaçao de Europa, A civilisaçao edit, Lisboa, Portugal, June 2009
• I Rossi Neri, Verdi: la convergenza degli Estremi opposti. Islamismo, comunismo, neonazismo, Lindau, 2010
• Pourquoi on tue les chrétiens dans le monde aujourd'hui, la nouvelle islamophobie (The New Christianophobia, Why Have Christians Around the World Become Murder Targets?); Maxima, Paris, 2011, (soon published in the USA)
• Le complexe occidental, Petit traité de déculpabilisation, Editions du Toucan, Paris, 2014.
• Le Chaos syrien, Minorités et printemps arabes face à l'islamisme, [written with Randa Kassis a Syrian politician and writer]; Dows éditions, Paris, 2014.
• Les vrais ennemis de l'Occident, du rejet de la Russie à l'islamisation des sociétés ouvertes, Editions du Toucan/ L'Artilleur, Paris, 2016 (The real enemies of the West, from the reject of Russia to the islamization of the open societies").
• La strategie de l'intimidation, du terrorisme jihadiste à l'islamiquement correct, Editions du Toucan/L'Artilleur, Paris, 2018 (The Strategy of Intimidation, from the jihadist terrorism to the "islamically correcness"; to be soon translated into English).

• Persecution of Christians
• Union for a Popular Movement
• The Free Right
• Randa Kassis

• Alexandre del Valle – French Official Website (in French)
• Alexandre del Valle – Italian Official Website (in Italian)
• Interview with Alexandre del Valle about Islamist Totalitarianism