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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the the induction ceremony at the Pantheon for late French historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch and his wife Simonne Vidal, in Paris, France, June 23, 2026. (Alice Sacco/Pool Photo via AP)
June 27, 2026, 4:21 pm
Jewish resistance hero’s French Panthéon entry sparks row over far right’s use of his legacy
Marc Bloch, historian and fighter executed by the Nazis, referenced by head of National Rally party, whose founders include a Holocaust denier and member of the Waffen-SS
By Shira Li Bartov
French journalist and writer Eric Zemmour arrives at the Criminal Court in Paris on November 6, 2015, where he was prosecuted for incitement to racial hatred. (BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
November 13, 2019, 5:00 am
The Ann Coulter of France is a Jew of Algerian heritage
Extremely divisive but beloved by some on the right for his harsher-than-usual anti-Muslim rhetoric, Eric Zemmour falls back on his Jewish roots to deflect accusations of racism
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Mischael Modrikamen at his home near Brussels holds up an anti-Semitic caricature favored by anti-Israel circles in Belgium, Oct. 26, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
November 17, 2018, 12:35 am
A Jewish lawyer is Steve Bannon’s main ally in uniting Europe’s right
Mischael Modrikamen, a Belgian politician whose party has one seat in parliament, has been at the forefront of the fight against the kingdom’s anti-Semitism problem
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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
National Front leader Marine Le Pen attends the far-right party's annual congress in the French city of Lille on March 10, 2018. (AFP Photo/Philippe Huguen)
July 9, 2018, 5:08 pm
French far-right leader to appeal state’s withholding of party funds
Marine le Pen says unpaid public subsidy of €2 million will kill National Front and amounts to a ‘coup,’ amid investigation into misuse of money
By AP
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
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)
March 31, 2018, 3:31 am
Court upholds Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Holocaust denial conviction
Founder of far-right French party was found guilty of inciting racist hatred by calling Jewish genocide a ‘detail’ of WWII
By JTA
People attend a silent march to honor an 85-year-old woman who escaped the Nazis 76 years ago but was stabbed to death last week in her Paris apartment, apparently targeted because she was Jewish, and to denounce racism, in Paris, France, March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
March 29, 2018, 6:26 am
Political tensions cloud tribute to slain Holocaust survivor
Son of Mireille Knoll decries insults shouted at far-right, far-left leaders during march held in his mother’s honor following her grizzly slaying last week
By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and Elaine Ganley
French Culture Minister Francoise Nyssen, second left, CRIF President Francis Kalifat center, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, center right, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy center, and Ile De France Region President Valerie Pecresse, center right walk with others during a silent march in Paris on March 28, 2018. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
March 28, 2018, 9:20 pm
Thousands march in Paris in memory of murdered Holocaust survivor
Leader of far-right National Front party attends event despite wishes of organizers, is booed by other participants
By Clare BYRNE and Joseph Schmid
National Front leader Marine Le Pen attends the far-right party's annual congress in the French city of Lille on March 10, 2018. (AFP Photo/Philippe Huguen)
March 13, 2018, 9:18 am
Le Pen’s rebranding of far-right party off to rocky start
Party founder, her dad, calls proposed name change a ‘political assassination,’ while survey suggests only bare majority of FN members support change
By Katy Lee and Anne Renaut
French far-right party Front National president Marine Le Pen speaks during her party's congress on March 11, 2018 in Lille, north of France, after being re-elected for a third term as leader. (AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUEN)
March 12, 2018, 12:56 am
France’s Le Pen proposes far-right rebrand
National Front leader seeking party name change in latest bid to break away from racist, anti-Semitic legacy of movement’s founder, her father Jean-Marie Le Pen
By Anne Renaut and Adam PLOWRIGHT
French far-right party Front National president Marine Le Pen speaks during her party's congress on March 11, 2018 in Lille, north of France, after being re-elected for a third term as leader. (AFP/PHILIPPE HUGUEN)
March 11, 2018, 2:08 pm
Seeking makeover, French far-right party jettisons anti-Semitic founder
National Front party reelects Marine Le Pen as leader, considers name change amid bid to break into mainstream
By AP
National Front party leader Marine Le Pen, right, and former White House strategist Steve Bannon hold a press conference at the party congress in the northern French city of Lille, on March 10, 2018 (AP Photo)
March 11, 2018, 2:27 am
Bannon to French far-right: ‘History is on our side’
Former Trump adviser urges members of Marine Le Pen’s National Front to wear racist label as a ‘badge of honor’
By Anne Renaut
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