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Fast Forward Israeli President Rivlin Calls Out Le Pen On Holocaust Remarks
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin used Holocaust Remembrance Day to lash out at Marine Le Pen, the far right nationalist French leader who came in second in the first round of voting in the French presidential election. Without naming Le Pen, Rivlin referred to a “French presidential candidate” who “denied France’s responsibility for the deportation of…
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Fast Forward Le Pen Steps Aside As National Front Leader In Bid For French Presidency
Marine Le Pen, one of two candidates for the next president of France, took a leave of absence Monday from her role as leader of the National Front, the far-right party that she and her father have led for four decades. “I think that we are approaching a decisive moment. I still believe that the…
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Fast Forward Buoyant Marine Le Pen Blows ‘Globalist’ Dog Whistle As France Campaign Kicks Off
(JTA) — Supporters of Emmanuel Macron were not alone in cheering his victory Sunday in the first round of France’s presidential elections. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who finished second in the voting, saw it as excellent news. The two will face off in the final round next month after the centrist Macron won 23 percent…
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Opinion What Macron’s Victory Says About French Jews
The vast majority of French Jews are celebrating Emmanuel Macron’s first-round victory in the presidential runoff. He is a globalist with a social conscience, a convinced European who will not lock France into a populist straightjacket. French Jews, like most of their compatriots. feared the possible presence of two other candidates in the second round:…
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News French Jews ‘Concerned’ Over Le Pen Success In France Vote
(JTA) — Leaders of French Jewry had mixed reactions to the success of Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the French presidential elections. “Satisfaction and concern,” Francis Kalifat, president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, wrote on Twitter Sunday after exit polls showed that Macron, a centrist…
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Fast Forward Should France’s Jews Leave If Le Pen Wins Elections?
(JTA) — Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar called on French Jews to leave their country if the far right politician Marine Le Pen is elected president next month. Lazar, a Chabad rabbi who was born in Italy and has lived in Russia for 25 years, made the remark on Friday while attending a conference on…
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Fast Forward Jewish Supporter Of Marine Le Pen Blames ‘Weak’ Government For Paris Attack
(JTA) — A prominent Jewish supporter of the far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen blamed the current government for the death of a police officer in a suspected terrorist attack in Paris. “The perpetrator was flagged for radicalization. He spoke of terrorism on social networks,” Michel Thooris, a police officer and member of the…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Leader: Our Country’s Democracy Is In ‘Real Danger’
(JTA) — There is a “real danger” that France’s democracy will be destroyed by its next president, the leader of the country’s federation of Jewish communities warned ahead of Sunday’s presidential election. “We are in a real danger of seeing the arrival to power of someone who will only use democracy to destroy it,” CRIF…
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