This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Les Mythes fondateurs de la politique israélienne (The Founding Myths of Modern Israel) is a book published in 1996 by French philosopher Roger Garaudy.

His most controversial work, Les Mythes was translated into English in 2000 by the Institute for Historical Review.

These and other myths, Garaudy's book argued, had been used by world Zionists in a conspiracy to dispossess the Palestinians of their homeland.

Under France's 1990 Gayssot Law, which prohibits the questioning of the existence of the category[clarification needed] of crimes against humanity as defined in the London Charter of 1945, several of Garaudy's assertions, in particular, his claim that the Holocaust was a myth, were deemed to be illegal.

The decision of the court provoked a debate about freedom of speech in France and Europe and some[who?]