2023-11-07 00:45:38
Is Jean-Marie Le Pen anti-Semitic? “I do not search hearts and kidneys but I do not believe it”, replies Jordan Bardella, interviewed Sunday November 5 on BFM-TV. The interviewer jumps. And asks once again: the man of “point of detail”from the German occupation “not particularly inhumane”of “Mr. Durafour crematorium”, and so many other anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial allusions, convicted six times for these acts by the courts (1969, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2012), is he anti-Semitic? The president of the National Rally (RN) maintains: “The judges have spoken, (but) I do not believe that Jean-Marie Le Pen was anti-Semitic. » Before adding: “Now, I obviously would not have made the comments he made on the “point of detail” because, for me, the horror of the Shoah is not a point of detail of history. »
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Can we present ourselves as ” the shield “ of French Jews facing anti-Semitism and defending, at the same time, a political godfather repeatedly condemned for his anti-Semitic outbursts? Obviously, Jordan Bardella thinks so. But not too strong: this extract was not included on its social networks, nor was it commented on by party elected officials.
The RN’s opponents have been reveling, since Sunday evening, in the young leader’s misstep. While the stigma of anti-Semitism has shifted, through ambiguous declarations, to the leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, this defense of the person of Jean-Marie Le Pen by Jordan Bardella highlights badly the efforts undertaken by the far-right group to forget its history.
A party founded by those nostalgic for collaboration
“Bardella demonstrates that this party has in no way broken with its history”castigated the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, Monday November 6, on Public Senate, in order to justify his decision to finally exclude the presence of elected officials from the Lepéniste party in a rally against anti-Semitism that he wishes to organize. “To have today the head of the National Rally who comes to explain to us that his predecessor was not anti-Semitic, it shows only one thing, and that is that their refusal of anti-Semitism, when it appears on television, it has a single objective, which is to exploit this cause to make it a blow against the Muslim world. » “Jean-Marie Le Pen was convicted of anti-Semitism (…) Jordan Bardella cannot ignore it”in turn denounced the government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, the same day, on France 5.
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