Shamed designer John Galliano has been sacked by fashion giant Christian Dior — after Oscar winner Natalie Portman today declared she was appalled at his racist rants.
Natalie — who is the face of a perfume made by Dior — slammed Galliano and said she would have nothing more to do with him. The Israeli-born beauty, 29, spoke out after we revealed shocking footage of Galliano declaring his love of Hitler and suggesting two women should be GASSED.
Christian Dior Chief Executive Sidney Toledano today said in a statement: "I very firmly condemn what was said by John Galliano, which totally contradicts the values which have always been defended by Christian Dior."
Galliano was suspended by the label last week after he was arrested for allegedly launching a vicious verbal attack on two people at the same Paris cafe where the video was filmed. The footage showed him directing vile abuse at two French and Italian customers. He told them: "People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be fucking gassed. I love Hitler."
A woman is then heard asking him if he had a problem. He added: "With you. You're ugly."
Asked where he was from, he said: "Your arsehole."
Natalie — who won best actress at the Academy Awards for Black Swan — said in a statement: "I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video of John Galliano's comments that surfaced today. In light of this video, and as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr Galliano in any way. I hope at the very least, these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful."
Last Thursday Galliano allegedly insulted Geraldine Bloch, 35, and threatened to kill her pal Philippe Virgitti, 41, in La Perle Bar.
Galliano, 50, turned up at a police station in the French capital today to deny all the charges against him and declared: "I'm no racist."
Ms Bloch has told cops he called her a "dirty Jew face".
None of those allegedly targeted by Galliano is Jewish.
Galliano, who was brought up in South London, has launched a counter-claim for defamation against Miss Bloch and Mr Virgitti.
A Paris detective said of the case: "The accused has insisted that he is not a racist, and certainly not anti-Semitic. On the contrary, he is taking legal action against his accusers."
Galliano's lawyer, Stephane Zerbib, has insisted the video has no value and that Galliano has never been anti-Semitic while working at Dior.
Sun
Thanks to NewsHound for the heads-up
28 comments:
hmmm.
I always thought Galliano was bonkers anyway.
You can bet Galliano is a Le Pen voter.
BNPers will most definately come out in his support, revealing his true colours.
EDLers will be more covert with their secret approval of Galliano, the evil racist scumbag.
I hope nobody buys the neo-Nazi bastards' clothes, not that they are wearable anyway.
I don't like Natalie Portman's politics but she is spot on about Galliano.
That's the last pair of crushed velvet and sharkskin jodhpurs I buy from that nazi shit.
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"That's the last pair of crushed velvet and sharkskin jodhpurs I buy from that nazi shit."
LOL
Is Jeff Marsh ex-Combat18?
Someone told me this the other day and I hope to find out more, thanks!
Hopefully the neo-Nazi wanker will disappear into the mist.
Now Hitler fetishist Galliano won't be doing any more catwalk shows in the forseeable future, expect Stephen Yazley Lennon to get him to redesign a brand-new range of no-surrender EDL wear.
Yaxley and Galliano will split the proceeds as the EDL sheepl think it's cool and trendy to wear leopardskin terrorist masks priced at £300 each.
Word on the streets is that Galliano will design the next EDL shirts.
I do not support Natalie Portman. She is in favour of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. She is a hypocrite who has no right to talk about racism to anyone else.
I've debated a number of far-right goons whose main argument is to say they only want for Britain what the Israelis want for Israel, and counting on us being too afraid to criticize Israel. The following are some quotes about Israel from the BNP manifesto:
"The demand of Israel to be a Jewish state underpins the existence of that nation — and is identical to the British National Party's demand for Britain to remain an ethnically majority British state."
"The BNP automatically supports Israel as a nationalist state but not on the basis of agreeing or disagreeing with her policies which it considers to be none of it's business, but on her right to exist as a people with her religious and cultural traditions. The BNP believes that Israel is a democratic state with a free press and a highly advanced judiciary who is perfectly capable of policing herself. In some respects one a BNP government can model itself on. As a nationalist party the BNP respects Israel's right to protect her borders and immigration and to fight terrorism. The BNP believes in non-interference in the affairs of nationalist states so therefore en passant deplores the delegitimisation of Israel by Milliband and Clegg, by liberal Western governments and the Obama regime. As a fellow nationalist state a BNP government would have supported Israel at the UN over the interference by Goldstone."
We must never give racism in Israel a free pass, otherwise we turn away the support of the huge number of pro-Palestinian people who should be on our side against the far-right.
All of a sudden there is lots of support for Galliano on the BNP section of the British Democracy Forum.
I wander why....?
Read this thread /
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/threads/336723-EDL-watch/page48?s=b8ee7ec18aa009ef22b91a7db9c985a8
(see the EDA Facebook screenshot towards the bottom of the page)
An EDA member talks about a "very senior EDL member (Yaxley???) selling cocaine.
Is this true?
Is young Yaxley a dealer as well as a coke user ????????????????????????
Today on March 1st at 15.00hrs Tommy Robinson has been re-arrested on a section 4 public order offence concerning the Poppy burning incident.
"I very firmly condemn what was said by John Galliano, which totally contradicts the values which have always been defended by Christian Dior."
But not by Francoise Dior. Anybody remember her?
Young urban youths are being targeted on youth music websites like the Grime Forum (www.grimeforum.com), a website where young wannabe MCs pretend to be black but hate Asian people.
Problem is, with many of these such websites aimed at youngsters. there is no moderation, allowing them to be overrun by the far right.
I suggest that anti-fascists get on as many of these sites as possible to diss the fuckin' neo-Nazi scum!
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Islamophobia and anti-semitism go hand-in-hand, which is a serious warning for no Jewish people to join the fash scumbags of the EDL.
What a waste of talent, and for a reason that could have simply been avoided by keeping his mouth shut/away from the phone cameras. Dior did the right thing by not justifying or excusing his behaviour, but this is just sad.
I do not support Natalie Portman. She is in favour of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. She is a hypocrite who has no right to talk about racism to anyone else.
Portman is a right wing Zionist but you have to stand alongside Zionists against the anti-Semitic blige that Galliano was spouting.
You can't ask Jews their politics and then decide whether or not to defend them from racism.
That's Anti-fascism 101
All of a sudden there is lots of support for Galliano on the BNP section of the British Democracy Forum.
The BNP's new "Militant" turn perhaps !?
Online anti-Semitism does seem more obvious from them in recent months.
Wonder what (token BNP Jewess) Pat Richardson on Epping thinks about this?
But not by Francoise Dior. Anybody remember her?
Didn't she dump John Tyndall and marry Colin Jordan (the Godfather of post-war British fascism)?
Supposedly Tyndall never got over the rejection.
"Portman is a right wing Zionist but you have to stand alongside Zionists"
I disagree.
"I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me." - Malcolm X
In other words, racists have no right to complain about the racism of others unless they give up their own racism first. Portman complaining about "anti-Semitism" is like the BNP idiots going around calling everyone "anti-white" whenever they start losing an argument.
In other words, racists have no right to complain about the racism of others unless they give up their own racism first.
That's too utopian and would be a disaster in the real world. People who fight and demonstate against fascism could have all sorts of reactionary ideas but it shouldn't preclude us from uniting with them. Some Muslim youth could have notions about Homosexuality that we don't like but we suppport them against the EDL.
Anway, drawing them into anti-fascism provides a good opportunity to challenge those ideas.
"People who fight and demonstate against fascism could have all sorts of reactionary ideas but it shouldn't preclude us from uniting with them."
I am not here to fight against 'fascism', I am here to fight against racism and division of society into mutually hostile camps. I am here to stop those who want to start a race war. I can unite with a lot of people, trust me, but the one type of person I can't unite with are those PUSHING US TOWARDS a race war.
When we give people like Portman a free pass, the next thing you know is the BNP/EDL will say: "Well, if it's OK for Israel to do ethnic cleansing, why isn't it OK for us to do the same?" In fact they are already saying this. I have literally heard some of them call themselves "Euro-Zionists" as if that legitimises violence against Muslims.
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