"quenelle"

• Concern Over an Increasingly Seen Gesture Grows in France, by Scott Sayare. New York Times 01/02/14. "PARIS — No one seems to know just what is meant by the “quenelle,” the vaguely menacing hand gesture invented and popularized by a French comedian widely criticized as anti-Semitic, but it is clearly nothing very nice, and it appears to be spreading."
• For those who claim that the dumpling is not an anti-Semitic gesture... there is an abundance of photographs on the web of people deliberately displaying it in front of Jewish synagogues, Holocaust memorials, and even the Nazi deathcamps themselves.