Gilles-William Goldnadel

Gilles-William Goldnadel was born on 12 January 1954 in Rouen, in northern France.[1][2] He is a secular Ashkenazi Jew.[1] His father. Henri Goldnadel, was of Polish Jewish descent, while his mother, Victoria Schwartz, is of Russian Jewish descent.[1][2]

Goldnadel grew up in Gournay-en-Bray, where they owned a clothing store.[1] He was educated at the Lycée des Bruyères in Rouen.[2] He received a master's degree in Law from Pantheon-Sorbonne University.[2]

Goldnadel is a lawyer.[1] He has defended Israeli businessman Arcadi Gaydamak and Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, among many others.[1] In 1996, he defended Maurice Arreckx.[3] In 2014, he defended Patrick Buisson, former President Nicolas Sarkozy's advisor.[4] In 2015, he defended Florian Philippot, a French politician, against the absolute monarchy of Qatar.[4][5]

An author, Goldnadel has written eight books, three of which with Jean-Claude Gawsewitch. In 2011, he wrote the preface of Vendée : du génocide au mémoricide by Reynald Secher, suggesting the War in the Vendée led to a genocide.[6] He is also a columnist, writing for Le Figaro and Valeurs Actuelles, two conservative French publications.[6][7] He protects freedom of speech in French media.[1] In a March 2015 column in Le Figaro, he suggested antisemitism and islamophobia were not comparable.[8]

Goldnadel first visited Israel in 1971.[1] He serves as the President of the Association France-Israël.[8] He has served on the Steering Committee of the CRIF since 2010.[6][9] He is a zionist, and supports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[1] He is a member of The Republicans.[5]

Goldnadel became an Israeli citizen in 2000.[1] He is married to Béatrice Vonderweidt,[2] a former model, now a painter whose work was exhibited at the French Institute of Tel Aviv in 2008.[1][10] She is a gentile.[1] They reside in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris.[6] They also have homes in Palermo, Italy, and Tel Aviv, Israel.[6] They have a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Laura-Sarah, both of whom are Israeli citizens and residents.[1]

• Une idée certaine de la France (Paris: France-Empire, 1998).
• Le Nouveau Bréviaire de la haine (Paris: Ramsay, 2001).
• Les Martyrocrates (Paris: Plon, 2004).
• Conversation sur les sujets qui fâchent avec Alexandre Adler (with Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2008).
• Le Blognadel (Paris: Éditions de Passy, 2009).
• Sans concessions. Conversations avec David Reinharc, avec Pascal Boniface (Paris: Éditions David Reinharc, 2010).
• Réflexions sur la question blanche (with Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2011).
• Le vieil homme m'indigne ! (with Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2012).

• Official blog