Marc d'Anna (born September 4, 1968),[1] writing under the pen name Alexandre del Valle,[2] is a Franco-Italian geopolitologist, writer, professor, columnist, and political commentator.
[3] Del Valle focuses on Islamic extremism, geopolitical threats, civilizational conflicts, and terrorism, as well as Mediterranean issues such as Turkey's proposed accession to the European Union.
[16][17] In 1991, while studying at the IEP in Aix-en-Provence, Del Valle joined the RPR UDF and then the RPF of Charles Pasqua and Philippe de Villiers.
[25][better source needed] 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.
"[25] In another article published in the Middle East Quarterly in Spring 2000,[7][better source needed] 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.
He claimed that Murawiec omitted to mention that his later books, such as Le Totalitarisme Islamiste a l'assaut des démocraties, were labeled both "pro-American and pro-Zionist.
Murawiec wrote an essay that also deplored the present pro-Saudi and pro-Islamist strategy and political correctness of American presidents who never dared nominating Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism as the real enemy and supporters of radical Islam.
[34] 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.
[36][better source needed] The 17th court of Paris dismissed MRAP, who had published in 2003[37] a special report on anti-Arabs, Zionists and Far right networks in France.
This MRAP Report accused Del Valle and other intellectuals such as Guy Millière [fr], Michel Darmon (former France-Israel's President) or Gilles-William Goldnadel as islamophobes and for supporting Zionist organizations such as the Union of French Jewish Employers and Professionals, Likoud, KKL, or Bnai Brith.
But he claimed that his political "godfathers" were Gaullists and former popular dissidents such as Alain Griotteray [fr], Pierre Marie Gallois, the former nuclear and geopolitical adviser of Charles De Gaulle, Gabriel Kaspereit and Jean Matteoli.