(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…
Like a Jewish Breitbart, the website Europe Israel has taken over the online conversation in Europe’s largest Jewish community. Now, as a crucial election approaches, its longtime bombardment of French Jews with biased, slanted news articles and controversial coverage of real, and sometimes fake, anti-Semitic attacks is having real consequences. Though the website never explicitly…
Back in February, the right-wing Jewish website Dreuz reported on an unprecedented meeting: The Confederation Of French Jews And Friends Of Israel, it disclosed, had recently met with Louis Alliot, the vice president of France’s National Front party, a far-right group long associated with Holocaust denial and historical sympathies for France’s wartime collaborationist regime with…
All western governments oppose anti-Semitism. Yet the old hatred continues. How toxic is it? And are recent eruptions of anti-Semitism expressions of momentary irritation, misunderstanding, or plain ignorance? White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer could, on a kindly view, fall into the last of these categories. His recent remark that Hitler used no chemical weapons,…
Marine Le Pen, the National Front’s president, follows a lot of white extremist activists on Twitter, many of whom are part of the “facistsphere,” a collection of influential far-right blogs and websites, according to an article in Vice. 180 of these accounts openly support the “grand remplacement” conspiracy theory, according to which the original European…
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen drew the ire of Israel and Jewish groups over the weekend when she said that her country was not responsible for the Vel d’Hiv roundup of July 1942, a wartime raid in which French police arrested 13,152 Jews in Paris. “If anyone is responsible, then it is those in…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel condemned far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen for saying that her country is not responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to death camps in 1942. “This declaration is contrary to historical truth, as expressed in the statements of successive French presidents who recognized France’s responsibility for the fate…
(JTA) — Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential elections, said that her country is not responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to death camps in 1942. Le Pen, who according to recent polls is one of the two leading candidates ahead of the first round of the elections on…
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