5 years ago Stratfor would never have swallowed that meme hook line and sinker.
Once again, there are specific Jewish religious law teachings that allow for non-Kosher sustenance.
I'm suprised this guy's organization hasn't been out on the streets with free soup again, all they needed was a professional chef and a health dept. permit.
Poisoning ethnic French poor people with undercooked pork soup is no way to go about being a ethnonationalist.
de Villiers' pork soup schtick was to make a point: France has a culture, and always had. Join it.
No matter how much one might ache to find something anti-Semitic in it, one can't. French Jews don't eat in soup kitchens. They're well off. North African Muslims do.
Recall that France is a secular country. That is the culture and has been since the Revolution. Villiers point was: integrate. And a major part of integration is to tone down religious differences that are not in synch with the prevailing culture. He was aiming at Muslims, but mainly at French, saying "I will stand up for France as a CULTURE, and not simply as a geographic entity where every culture is equal. French culture comes first in France." That's his point. It has resonance.
He picked up a lot of momentum with his opposition to the EU Constitution.