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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 528

Eric Zemmour

Demonstrators hold flags during a demonstration called by fundamentalist Catholic organization Civitas on May 8, 2016 in Paris. (FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP)
August 8, 2023, 11:11 am
France moves to ban far-right Catholic party Civitas for antisemitism
Decision comes after speaker at party seminar suggested Jews should not be allowed to become French citizens; interior minister: ‘No room for antisemitism in our country’
By AFP
French journalist Geoffroy Lejeune poses during a photo session in Paris on September 28, 2020. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)
June 29, 2023, 7:46 pm
Mass walkout as major French paper taps far-right editor with record of antisemitism
Geoffroy Lejeune, 34, former editor of far-right publication, appointed to lead Journal du Dimanche following takeover by conservative billionaire
By AFP
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, right, talks to Jacques Fredj, head of the Shoah Memorial ,as they leave the train car symbolizing the Drancy camp, July 12, 2022 in Drancy, outside Paris (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
July 17, 2022, 2:13 pm
French Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Vel d’Hiv roundup of Jews
Over 2 days in 1942, police herded 13,152 people, including 4,115 children, into the Winter Velodrome of Paris before they were sent on to Nazi camps; very few survived
By Angela Charlton and jade le deley
This file photo taken in May 1941 shows Jews getting off the train in Pithiviers (AFP)
July 17, 2022, 7:57 am
Macron to speak at ceremony marking 80th anniversary of WWII round-up of Jews
At former railway station used to deport Jews to Auschwitz, France’s president will acknowledge that ‘French society is not finished with antisemitism’
By AFP
Eric Zemmour gestures as he takes part in the political show 'Elysee 2022' on French TV channel France 2, in Saint-Denis, near Paris, on March 17, 2022. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
May 17, 2022, 10:13 am
Zemmour acquitted of Holocaust denial for saying French Nazi collaborator saved Jews
Appeals court confirms earlier ruling that ex-presidential candidate didn’t deny crimes against humanity by saying Philippe Pétain sacrificed foreign Jews to save Jewish citizens
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Eric Zemmour gestures as he takes part in the political show 'Elysee 2022' on French TV channel France 2, in Saint-Denis, near Paris, on March 17, 2022. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
May 12, 2022, 8:46 pm
Following failed presidential bid, Zemmour to seek French parliament seat
Jewish far-right pundit-turned-politician says he will lead a ‘beautiful and major fight’ with his Reconquest party for the seat in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera
By Anne Renaut and Adrien de CALAN
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen mobbed by supporters during a campaign rally in Perpignan, southern France, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)
April 25, 2022, 10:57 am
Despite loss to Macron, Le Pen and the far-right are mightier than ever
Nationalists gain over 40% of French votes, coming closer than ever to the Élysée Palace and entrenching racism and xenophobia in the mainstream
By John Leicester
France's far-right candidate for the 2022 presidential election Eric Zemmour speaks during the show "France in the Face of War," in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, March 14, 2022. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)
April 13, 2022, 10:23 pm
French Jews allegedly targeted by texts from campaign of far-right Zemmour
Pair of Jewish groups planning to file police complaint claim the candidate, who failed to advance past first round of voting, illicitly obtained a list of Jews in France
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A French national living in India casts her vote in the first round of the country's presidential elections at the French embassy in New Delhi on April 10, 2022 (Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)
April 10, 2022, 11:40 am
Voting begins in France, with polls projecting run-off between Macron, Le Pen
Analysts believe French president will come out ahead of far-right candidate by a handful of percentage points in round one, with the two going to a second round vote on April 24
By Stuart Williams
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen shakes hands to a fruits seller as she tours a food market in Narbonne, southern France, on April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)
April 9, 2022, 3:55 pm
Le Pen gains momentum and closes in on rival Macron ahead of French election
Campaigning on cost of living and seemingly balanced out by the more extreme Zemmour, far-right leader is posing a threat to incumbent
By John Leicester
A pedestrian walks past campaign posters for French presidential candidates Eric Zemmour, left, and Marine Le Pen ahead of the first round of the French presidential election in Paris, on April 7, 2022. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
April 9, 2022, 2:26 pm
French Jewish voters divided as Zemmour makes Jewish man’s death a national issue
As elections near, right-wing presidential candidate highlights death of Jérémie Cohen, previously thought to be an accident, saying it was result of an antisemitic attack
By Cnaan Liphshiz
French far-right media pundit and 2022 presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, left, listens to his advisor Sarah Knafo after presenting the name of his new party "Reconquete!" at the end of a campaign rally in Villepinte, near Paris, December 5, 2021. (Julien de Rosa/AFP /Getty Images via JTA)
April 7, 2022, 11:56 pm
Young French Jew dating Zemmour is also managing the far-right candidate’s campaign
Sarah Knafo was deemed highly likely to thrive in France’s political scene, but has caused surprise by becoming the protege, lover and adviser of the Jewish presidential hopeful
By Cnaan Liphshiz
French far-tight leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a campaign rally, on February 5, 2022 in Reims, eastern France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
March 31, 2022, 9:54 pm
France’s far-right Le Pen gaining on incumbent presidential frontrunner Macron
Her positions haven’t changed on immigration and national identity, expert says, but she’s using ‘a different vocabulary’ around cherished French values like secularism, feminism
By Tom BARFIELD
French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour addresses a press conference ahead of the April 10 French presidential election's first round, on March 23, 2022, in Paris. (Bertrand Guay/AFP)
March 24, 2022, 3:55 pm
French far-right presidential hopeful sued for denying Nazis rounded up gays
Legal complaint alleges Eric Zemmour ‘distorted history to support his homophobic positions’ by claiming in manifesto that deportations of homosexuals to camps were a ‘legend’
By Guillaume DAUDIN
French far right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour cheers the crowd during his first rally, in Villepinte, north of Paris, France, December 5, 2021. (Rafael Yaghobzadeh/AP)
March 11, 2022, 10:26 am
8 accuse Jewish far-right French presidential candidate Zemmour of sexual abuse
Women report incidents of sexual misconduct dating back as far as 1999 in TV exposé; 7 accusers had already come forward and are now joined by an 8th woman; Zemmour denies charges
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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