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French march against antisemitism shakes up far right and far left.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67378893
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Such is the shake-up in the political order, which of course long predates the Gaza war and is mirrored in varying ways across other European countries.
Meanwhile the far left in France, analysing Gaza through the anti-colonial lens, sees an oppressed people hammered by a superpower proxy and shouts “Solidarity!”
They note that Jordan Bardella this week refused to explicitly call Jean-Marie Le Pen antisemitic - a faux-pas to which enemies of the National Rally (RN) have reacted with glee.
This week one senior lieutenant, Raquel Garrido, was given a four-month suspension as party spokeswoman for challenging the leader’s line - not least on Hamas.
Opinion polls bear it out: according to IFOP last week, Marine Le Pen would trounce the opposition in the first round of a presidential election today, with up to 33% of the vote.
Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate helped bring Nazi war criminals to justice, and documented the deportations and deaths of 80,000 Jews from France exterminated in the Holocaust.
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