# Philippe Val
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{{short description|French journalist, singer, and comedian (born 1952)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Philippe Val
| image = Philippe Val, France Inter (8513628892).jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Philippe Val (2013)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1952|9|14}}
| birth_place = [Neuilly-sur-Seine](/source/Neuilly-sur-Seine), France
| occupation = {{hlist|Journalist|comedian|singer}}
| notable_works =
| known_for = ''Font et Val'' comedy duo
Co-founder of ''[Charlie Hebdo](/source/Charlie_Hebdo)''
}}
'''Philippe Val''' ({{IPA|fr|filip val|lang}}; born 14 September 1952)[{{cite web|url=http://storage.canalblog.com/67/14/305579/55601785.jpg|title=Assignation en justice|work=Le Parisien|date=17 May 2009|language=fr}}] is a French journalist, singer, and comedian. He was a co-founder of the second iteration of ''[Charlie Hebdo](/source/Charlie_Hebdo)'' in 1992, serving as the satirical political weekly's editor and director.[{{cite news|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/abo-loisirs-et-spectacles/philippe-val-l-ami-qui-derange-17-05-2009-516196.php|title=Philippe Val, l'ami qui dérange|work=Le Parisien|date=17 May 2009|language=fr}}] Val first became known as a member of the comedy duo ''Font et Val'' with Patrick Font from 1970 until 1996, and sometimes as a one-person show performer, with his dog "Jeff".[{{cite web|url=https://mediatheque.sainthilairederiez.fr/node/512177?q=node%2F512177|title=Val, Philippe (1952-....)|work=La Médiathèque|accessdate=15 June 2024|language=fr}}] He is also a singer and pianist. At the turn of the 21st century, he performed with Emmanuel Binet on [bass](/source/Bass_(instrument)). His last album was called simply ''Philippe Val''.[{{Cite journal|last=Neffati|first=Imen|date=August 2021|title=Anti-sociologisme, Zionism, and Islamophobia in Philippe Val's Charlie Hebdo|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09571558211027041|journal=French Cultural Studies|volume=32|issue=3 |pages=280–95|doi=10.1177/09571558211027041 |s2cid=236917009 |doi-access=free}}] As editorial director, Val chose to publish the [''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons](/source/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy) in late 2005. As a result of publishing the cartoons, ''[Charlie Hebdo](/source/Charlie_Hebdo)'' was taken to court for inciting hatred; in 2007 it was acquitted of those charges.[{{cite news|last=Leveque|first=Thierry|title=French court clears weekly in Mohammad cartoon row|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/industry-france-cartoons-trial-dc-idUSL2212067120070322|accessdate=10 June 2013|work=Reuters|date=22 March 2007}}] Val co-signed a petition, "le manifeste des 12", together with [Bernard-Henri Lévy](/source/Bernard-Henri_L%C3%A9vy), [Salman Rushdie](/source/Salman_Rushdie), [Taslima Nasrin](/source/Taslima_Nasrin) and eight others, which denounced the dangers of [Islamist](/source/Islamist) ideology, calling it a "new [totalitarianism](/source/totalitarianism)".[{{cite news|author1=Henry Samuel|title=French cartoonist Sine on trial on charges of anti-Semitism over Sarkozy jibe|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/4351672/French-cartoonist-Sine-on-trial-on-charges-of-anti-Semitism-over-Sarkozy-jibe.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=27 January 2009}}] However, in December 2010, Siné won a 40,000-euro court judgment against ''Charlie Hebdo'' for wrongful termination.[{{cite news|url=http://www.actuabd.com/+Le-Tribunal-de-Grande-Instance+|title=Le Tribunal de Grande Instance donne raison à Siné contre Charlie Hebdo|website=actuabd.com|date=11 December 2010|lang=fr}}] In 2009, Val resigned from ''Charlie Hebdo'' after being appointed director of [France Inter](/source/France_Inter).[{{cite news|url=https://qantara.de/en/article/controversial-manifesto-against-new-anti-semitism-france-cutting-suras-suit|title=Controversial manifesto against "new anti-Semitism" in France: Cutting Suras to suit|work=Qantara.de|date=18 May 2018|first=Farid|last=Hafez}}] with ''[Gates of Vienna](/source/Gates_of_Vienna)'' listing him as a "victim of the 'repression of the counter-jihad movement'".[{{cite web|url=https://www.setav.org/en/assets/uploads/2018/05/39_Perspective_French_Iniative1.pdf|title=The French Initiative to Change the Qur’an|first=Farid|last=Hafez|work=SETA Perspective|date=May 2018|number=39|page=4}}]
===Later activities===
Val served as the director of public radio channel [France Inter](/source/France_Inter) until 2014.[{{cite news|url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/medias/radio/philippe-val-ex-patron-de-france-inter-rejoint-europe-1-comme-editorialiste-5d7303d2-1169-11ec-b41b-5a71844b338c|title=Philippe Val, ex-patron de France Inter, rejoint Europe 1 comme éditorialiste|work=Ouest-France|agency=AFP|date=9 September 2021|language=fr}}]
In April 2018, Val drafted a manifesto "against the new anti-Semitism", which was signed by 250 personalities in France including [Nicolas Sarkozy](/source/Nicolas_Sarkozy), [Manuel Valls](/source/Manuel_Valls), [Jack Lang](/source/Jack_Lang_(French_politician)), [Julia Kristeva](/source/Julia_Kristeva), and [Gérard Depardieu](/source/G%C3%A9rard_Depardieu), condemning the "silent ethnic cleansing" of Jews by Muslims in certain parts of France.