These comments sparked much controversy, and Soral estranged himself from his showbusiness friends like Thierry Ardisson, a French TV host and producer, though they knew each other for more than 25 years. Soral defended his comments some days later on the website oumma.com, claiming that his words had been taken out of context. Anti-Semitism is the main subject of Soral's book "CHUTe! Éloge de la disgrâce" ("HUSH! In praise of disgrace"), a semi-autobiographical novel. The title of the book is a play on words: "chut" means "hush" in French, while "chute" means "fall" or "downfall".