(JTA) — The leadership of the far-right National Front party in France replaced its pick for interim president following reports he had denied aspects of the Holocaust. Jean-François Jalkh, who temporarily took Marine Le Pen’s place leading the National Front ahead of the May 7 presidential election runoff, was replaced on Friday, two days after…
(JTA) – The man who has replaced Marine Le Pen at the helm of France’s far-right National Front claimed in 2000 that the poison used by Nazis to kill Jews in the Holocaust could not have been applied in reality. Jean-François Jalkh, who took Le Pen’s place this week so that she can focus on her…
(JTA) – Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential elections, said she would ban halal slaughter of animals if she is elected, along with any other method without stunning. Le Pen, who won 21.5 percent of the vote in the first round of the elections Sunday, on Tuesday made the statement on halal…
On July 16-17, 1942, some 9,000 French police rounded up and arrested 13,000 French Jews, the majority of them women and children. Held briefly in inhumane conditions at the Vélodrome d’Hiver stadium, these Jews would soon be deported East, most never to return. French police acted under the supervision not of the Nazis, but of…
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…
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…
(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…
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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