Comic banned: The French government is going after anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala. The half-Cameroonian stand-up and video artist, known for mocking the Holocaust and repeatedly convicted for inciting racial hatred, has popularized a new move: the quenelle, the French sign for “up yours” modified to resemble a downwarddirected Nazi salute. It got its name from Dieudonné’s quip in 2009 that he wanted to stick a quenelle—an oblong fish dumpling—“up the backsides of Zionists.” This week Interior Minister Manuel Valls instructed French police chiefs to ban any Dieudonné performance that “may threaten public order.” The city of Nantes has already done so.
