It’s now the left-wing France Unbowed party, not the far right, that strikes fear into the Jewish community.
  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    PARIS — Given the antisemitic pedigree of France’s far-right National Rally, it is a remarkable turn of the political tides that party leader Marine Le Pen now sees a prime electoral opportunity in pledging to protect the country’s fearful Jewish community.

    The moral vacillations of France’s hard left, which is refusing to describe Hamas as a terrorist organization, have horrified French Jews, just as they face a surge in antisemitic offenses, ranging from death threats to graffiti on Jewish shops.

    She can seize on a clear anti-Islamist agenda, while the extreme left relies heavily on a support base in immigrant and Muslim communities, where a robust defense of Israel would play badly.

    Supporting France’s Jews against antisemitism is probably less a play for votes from the world’s third biggest Jewish community than another major step by Le Pen to try to normalize the party and break from its toxic past.

    “We have a weight around our necks due to the comments by Jean-Marie Le Pen and his allies,” said a National Rally MP, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive issues more candidly.

    “Europe is not homogenous, in some countries, we’re worried about neo-Nazis on the right, but in France and Belgium, it’s Islamist movements that are at the root of antisemitism, they kill Jews because they are Jewish,” said Dahan from the CRIF.

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    • ZILtoid1991@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Some on the “left” (arguable, see later) have more of an issue with what they call “the west” than social and economic injustices, etc., and to the point they support anyone trying to challenge “the west” regardless of principles. This not only true to supporting Hamas, an Islamofascist terrorist organization, but also people like Putin, the Christofascist and very anti-left dictator of Russia, which is even more ironic when the person in question is LGBTQ+ or a PoC. Hell, I even saw these kind of people supporting Viktor Orbán, the Christofascist and very anti-left dictator of Hungary, who is hellbent on pressuring progressives to pull a “new-Labor” moment on social issues (reference to a supposed quote by Margaret Thatcher, in which she was proud in pressuring left-wing parties to the center on economic issues), just because he’s honest about not being a free market absolutist, and makes the government to hold 10-24% shares some of his friends companies and calling it “taking back stuff”.