While France is experiencing an increase in acts targeting Jews, in the context of the war between Hamas and Israel, Jordan Bardella wanted to return to the ideology of Jean-Marie Le Pen.
“I don’t believe that Jean-Marie Le Pen was anti-Semitic,” the president of the National Rally declared on BFMTV on Sunday, regarding the man who co-founded the FN with a former Waffen-SS.
Bardella assures that his party “is perfectly irreproachable”
“I would not have made the comments he made on the point of detail, because for me the horror of the Shoah is not a point of detail of History,” he nevertheless said. added, in reference to the famous phrase of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has remained the political incarnation of anti-Semitism since the 1980s and has been condemned for it.
“The political break between Marine Le Pen and Jean-Marie Le Pen took place precisely on the question of anti-Semitism, even going so far as to exclude her own father from the National Front”, in 2015, detailed the president of the RN, assuring that his “political movement is perfectly irreproachable”.
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Asked about the case of RN deputy for Var Frédéric Boccaletti, accused of having sold negationist works in his bookstore in the past, Jordan Bardella replied that “the facts you cite are 30 years old, 35 years old”. “I think he very quickly turned his back on his activities as a bookseller. On this issue, to know him, he is irreproachable,” he insisted.
Jordan Bardella, on the other hand, spoke of a new anti-Semitism, “tinged with the green of Islamism and the red of cultural leftism”. He thus accused the leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon of being the “spokesperson for Hamas in France” and the Insoumis of being “collaborators of an ideology which has constituted itself as a fifth column in our Company “.