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July 15, 2024

After Elections, French Jews Wonder Who Their Real Friends Are

The left hates them, the center betrays them, and the right tamps down its hostility.

Last week, France held the second round of elections for its National Assembly. Thanks to an uncomfortable alliance between the hard left (led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Fance Unbowed) and centrists (led by the current president Emmanuel Macron), the hard-right National Rally won a relatively small number of seats. The latter party, founded by the anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen, has in the past decade considerably softened its attitude towards Jews.

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