French Jews are caught between ‘les extrêmes’
French voters defeated the far-right, but some Jews worry about an ascendant left-wing leader's checkered history
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
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Fast Forward Mélenchon Agrees With Le Pen: France Not Responsible For Holocaust
Leftist French leader Jean Luc Mélenchon has said France bears no responsibility for the actions of the pro-Nazi Vichy government during the Holocaust, according to Haaretz — echoing the remarks of far right wing leader Marine le Pen. Mélenchon rejected President Emmanuel Macron’s assertion on Sunday that France bore responsibility for helping the Nazis roundi up…
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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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Fast Forward Noam Chomsky, Mark Ruffalo, Eve Ensler Root For Far-Left French Candidate
Political activist Noam Chomsky is leading an unlikely gaggle of Americans who are backing left-wing upstart Jean-Luc Mélenchon to become France’s new president. In a MoveOn petition launched on Tuesday, Chomsky, together with actors Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover, playwright Eve Ensler, director Oliver Stone and critical theorist Nancy Fraser, called on French voters to…
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Breaking News French Jews Worry About Rising Communist Presidential Candidate
(JTA) — Even before the communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon emerged as a serious contender for the presidency in France, the elections were shaping up to be a fateful moment for the country’s 500,000 Jews. Many of them are deeply worried about the rise in the polls of Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front…
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