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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 642

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, in Paris, May 1, 2017. (Kamil Zihnioglu/AP)
January 7, 2025, 3:59 pm
French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, anti-immigrant firebrand, dies at 96
Polarizing figure, father of politician Marine Le Pen, belittled Holocaust gas chambers as ‘a detail in World War II history,’ railed against migrants and multiculturalism
By Thomas Adamson, Sylvie Corbet and Elaine Ganley
France's President Emmanuel Macron leaves the polling station after voting for the first round of parliamentary elections in Le Touquet, northern France on June 30, 2024. (Ludovic Marin / AFP)
July 1, 2024, 5:03 pm
Macron’s implicit endorsement of ‘antisemitic,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ far left shocks French Jews
Defeats for French president’s party in the first round of the parliamentary elections prompt a controversial alliance against the far right – and, potentially, Jewish emigration
By Canaan Lidor
This combination of photographs created on June 16, 2024, shows French far-right party National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen (L) in Paris on October 20, 2021 and Jean-Luc Melenchon (R), candidate of the French left coalition New Popular Front for France's elections for the National Assembly, in Paris on January 24, 2017. (JOEL SAGET / AFP)
June 29, 2024, 4:40 pm
In snap election, many French Jews reluctantly endorse far right over dreaded far left
As Macron sends voters to the polls on Sunday, unprecedented levels of antisemitism after October 7 have prominent Jews reluctantly backing a party founded by a Holocaust denier
By Canaan Lidor
Member of France's parliament and president of the conservative Les Republicains (LR) opposition party Eric Ciotti poses before an interview on the set of the French TV channel TF1 in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, June 11, 2024. (Stephane de Sakutin / POOL / AFP)
June 12, 2024, 2:10 pm
French conservative leader embraces far-right party founded by Nazi apologist
Les Republicains lawmakers furious as leader Eric Ciotti breaks longtime boycott of Le Pen’s faction after snap elections called amid establishment’s dismal showing in EU elections
By Shira Li Bartov
Co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel (L) and co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Tino Chrupalla react after first exit polls after the European Parliament elections in Berlin, on June 9, 2024. (Ralf Hirschberger / AFP)
June 10, 2024, 3:11 pm
Germans say far-right AfD lacks legitimacy, even after its European Parliament gains
Amid a nationalist swell, AfD rises 5 percentage points but remains too controversial for widespread public support – even for some small-town sympathizers
By Canaan Lidor
Supporters of French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen wave flags during a campaign rally, Feb. 5, 2022 in Reims, eastern France (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
February 9, 2022, 11:39 am
Far-right brings Islam to center stage in French elections, leaving Muslims uneasy
With Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen railing against their religion in frequent diatribes, many French Muslims fear such rhetoric has been normalized
By Cecile Feuillatre and Joris FIORITI
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right National Front party, gives a speech in Paris on February 17, 1996. (AFP Photo/Pierre Boussel)
October 29, 2021, 7:26 pm
French court clears far-right party founder Le Pen over antisemitic ‘oven’ quip
Judge finds that comment invoking Holocaust aimed at Jewish singer did not amount to ‘inciting discrimination and violence’
By AFP
File - French founder of the far-right National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen poses during a photo session at his home in Saint-Cloud, France, January 14, 2021. (Joel Saget/AFP)
September 2, 2021, 8:21 pm
French far-right veteran Jean-Marie Le Pen on trial over Holocaust pun
Founder and former leader of France’s main far-right party faces allegations of inciting racial hatred over 2014 remark he made about French Jewish actor and singer
By Anne Lec'hvien
French far-right Rassemblement National (RN) President and member of Parliament Marine Le Pen delivers a speech after the announcement of initial results during an RN election-night event for European parliamentary elections on May 26, 2019, at La Palmeraie venue in Paris. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)
October 8, 2020, 10:46 pm
Le Pen would best Macron in first round of French presidential elections – poll
Survey shows ultranationalist would overtake incumbent in preliminary vote, though Macron would come out on top in subsequent runoff
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Romain Lopez won the mayoral race in Moissac with 62% of the vote, easily breaking a string of left-wing mayors in the French town dating back to World War II. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)
July 17, 2020, 6:17 am
French town that saved Jews elects mayor from party founded by Holocaust denier
City of Moissac, which sheltered 500 Jewish children from Nazis, selects Romain Lopez, a member of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, who has been accused of anti-Semitism
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Marion Marechal delivers a speech as she inaugurates the Institute of Social Sciences, Economics and Politics (ISSEP) in Lyon, central France, June 22, 2018. (Laurent Cipriani/AP)
July 7, 2019, 2:27 pm
Le Pen family rivals? Rising French far-right star resurfaces, plays with fire
Marion Marechal, granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been holding discreet meetings in bid to build bridges with enemy conservatives; denies undermining Aunt Marine
By Elaine Ganley
This file photo taken on September 28, 2016 shows French far-right National Front party founder and former leader Jean-Marie Le Pen delivering a speech during a press conference in Mormant, near Paris. (AFP Photo/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt)
September 26, 2018, 12:59 am
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right National Front, hospitalized
90-year-old father of current party leader Marine, who has a history of making anti-Semitic remarks, treated for fever
By AFP
France's far-right political party Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen speaks during a lunch meeting on September 5, 2015 in Marseille. (AFP/BORIS HORVAT)
June 14, 2018, 3:18 pm
France’s National Front founder Le Pen hospitalized during hate speech trial
89-year-old was due to face verdict in case over comments that conflated homosexuality and pedophilia and suggested that gay couples should not be in the public eye
By AFP
President of the French far-right Front National (FN) party and member of Parliament Marine Le Pen looks on during a session of questions to the government at the French National Assembly, in Paris, on May 29, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / Philippe LOPEZ)
June 1, 2018, 5:32 pm
France’s Marine Le Pen plans party rebrand in hopes of populist rebound
National Front trying to shake off reputation for racism and anti-Semitism that has marked it for decades
By AFP
In this photo taken on January 27, 2016 in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris France's far-right Front National (FN) party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen poses for a photograph. (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET)
April 6, 2018, 6:47 am
France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen joins European extreme-right group
Alliance for Peace and Freedom hails firebrand co-founder of National Front party as ‘the epitome of ideological coherence and resistance’
By AFP
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