Jordan Bardella, a young president of the far right of national rally in France, plans to visit Israel this month in a strong symbol of his party from the home of French anti -Semitism to a loud friend of the Jews.
“Anti -Semitism is poison,” Mr. Bardella said Le Journal Du DimancheSunday’s newspaper, announcing that he plans to attend the Jerusalem conference on the subject at the end of March and visit the areas of Israel that Hamas attacked on October 7, 2023. “Our engagement in this fight is absolute.”
No leader of the end right party, including her multi -year presidential candidate, Marina Le Pen, has previously committed an official visit to Israel. But the position of the party against what he calls “Islamist ideology” has led to the hug of Israel and the struggle of the country against Hamas and Hezbollah. At the same time, the national Rally’s fierce immigrant ideology, targeted especially on Muslims, has earned the support of some French Jews.
Many French Jews, however, remain unwavering in their opposition to foreigners. Bernard-Henri Lévy, a reputable intellectual and author of last year “Sam Israel”, a scary Paean Israel after October 7, he immediately announced that he had left the Jerusalem conference because Mr. Bardella was going. He informed President Isaac Herzog of Israel of his decision.
Jean-Marie Le PenThe founder of the National Front, which became a national rally in 2018, was known to have rejected the Holocaust as a “detail” of history and called the Nazi occupation of France “not particularly inhumane”, despite the deportation of more than 75,000 Jews in Hitler’s death camps.
For many years, his daughter, Mrs. Le Pen, helped late from the 29-year-old protégé, Mr. Bardella, sought to distance herself from her father’s anti-Semitism as part of a part of the campaign for the wider acceptance of a party that was long seen as a direct threat to French democracy. The French verb, “Dédiaboliser”, has become an epitome of driving to end “the demonization of the national conference”.
Serge Klarsfeld, a well -known Nazi hunter and a prominent French Jew, gave a significant seal of the party’s image approval last year when he said he was ready to vote for a national rally against the end left, which he characterized as an anti -Semite.
“This is quite normal considering the activity I have had in the last 60 years, that between the anti-Semitic party and the Pro-Jewish party I will vote for Pro-Jewish,” he said.
The end of the colors of the France’s unfair party was fierce in his reset of Israeli military operation in Gaza as a “genocide”. His de facto leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, turning to anti-Semitic tropics, challenged his loyalty to the French President of the National Assembly and the former premiere, both of the Jewish origin.
Many French Jews, concerned about the end of anti -Muslim xenophobia among the members of the national rally, had serious concerns about Mr. Klarsfeld’s new position and his equalization. 2022 article In the Libération newspaper is the title, “Not Le Pen, the daughter of racism and anti -Semitism.”
National rally, all Tabui obviously broke, now there are 123 out of 577 places in the French parliament.
Mr. Bardella met last month in the United States with the Israeli Minister of Diaspora, Amichai Chiklija, when they both attended a conservative conference on a political action outside Washington. In a statement about X, Mr. Bardella said they had “fertile discussions” about “international struggle against Islamic terrorism and anti -Semitism.”
Israeli call to Mr. Bardelli to attend a conference in Jerusalem on 26 and March 27 followed that meeting. Another prominent character of the French right, Marion Maréchal, a niece of Mrs. Le Pen and a member of the European Parliament, will also attend the conference.
In an interview with newspapers, Mr. Bardella said that the sudden increase in anti -Semitic incidents in France was attributed to “Islamist ideology, enhanced by naive immigration policy, the fake of our laws and the payments of the left, which became a voice in France’s beliefs of Hamas.”
Broken as a potential presidential candidate in 2027, Mr. Bardella vowed to “drastically reduce immigration, publish a law for banning Islamist ideology, ejecting extremist strangers, closes the fanatical mosques and dissolves all Islamist offices in France.”
He said “the fight against anti -Semitism must be relentless,” and accused the French ultimate left of “exchanging a French flag for Palestinians.”
There were clear echoes of Trump’s administration in politics stated by Mr. Bardella. His own party and the second on the far side of Europe strengthened the first week of Mr. Trump in power.
Mrs. Le Pen, 56, along with other party members, is a trial Accused of embezzling funds from the European Parliament between 2004 and 2016. She denied any abuse, but the belief could complicate her presidential aspirations or even lead to becoming unacceptable, and encouraged Mr. Bardelle’s offer for the Presidency. So far, they have skipped a conflict over the potential conflict of their ambitions.
The announcement of Mr. Bardelle about his plans to go to Israel came while Bruno Retailleu, the Minister of the Interior, called for “extreme alert” during the upcoming Jewish holidays to Purje and Passover, in the light of “elevated levels of terrorist threats”.
