{"id":56388,"date":"2024-07-01T08:39:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T06:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56388"},"modified":"2025-07-01T00:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:08:36","slug":"france-and-the-dangerous-whitening-of-the-anti-semitic-and-anti-democratic-far-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/01\/france-and-the-dangerous-whitening-of-the-anti-semitic-and-anti-democratic-far-left\/","title":{"rendered":"France and the dangerous whitening of the anti-Semitic and anti-democratic far-left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, France held legislative elections, which concluded with a clear victory for Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/03\/the-far-left-encourages-violence-in-france-says-it-is-class-struggle-and-blames-the-rich\/\">The far-left encourages violence in France: says it is 'class struggle' and blames 'the rich'<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/30\/the-progressive-social-model-burns-france-but-they-stigmatize-the-conservative-poland\/\">The progressive social model burns France but they stigmatize the conservative Poland<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Le Pen's party wins in 297 of the 577 constituencies<\/big><\/p>\n<p>As the journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ldpsincomplejos\/status\/1807636524583866569\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luis del Pino<\/a> has pointed out, <strong>the right-wing RN has won in 297 of the 577 constituencies<\/strong>, with 39 deputies who have obtained more than 50% of the votes and will no longer have to go through the second round. <strong>The leftist coalition New Popular Front (NFP) has come second<\/strong>, winning in 159 constituencies, with 32 deputies who have achieved more than 50% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The center-left coalition Ensemble (Together), supported by Macron, has come third<\/strong>, winning in 70 constituencies and with only 2 deputies exceeding 50%. <strong>The centrist party Les R\u00e9publicains<\/strong>, partner of the European People's Party, has come fourth, winning in only 20 constituencies and only one by more than 50%.<\/p>\n<p><big>Many media exhibit their bias by calling the RN \u201cextreme right\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>The treatment of these elections in many media is already repetitive<\/strong>, but that does not make it any less criticizable. Headlines referring to the RN as \"extreme right\" are numerous, but <strong>the term \"extreme left\" is hardly used to refer to the NFP, which includes communists and the anti-Semitic ultra-left<\/strong> of M\u00e9lenchon, whose party, La Insoumise France has been winking at Islamism for years.<\/p>\n<p><big>A wave of anti-Semitism encouraged by Islamism and the extreme left<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This media treatment ignores a paradox: <strong>France is suffering a wave of anti-Semitism unprecedented since the Second World War<\/strong>, but unlike what happened then, when this hatred of Jews was promoted by the extreme right , <strong>this time it is the extreme left and Islamism that are responsible<\/strong>, motivated by their hatred of the State of Israel, which in the end always ends up being directed against the Jewish community, although some insist on affirming that anti-Zionism does not It is anti-Semitism. A few months ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larazon.es\/internacional\/europa\/izquierda-radical-jean-luc-melenchon-desmarca-marchas-francia-antisemitismo_202311126550c3a032499c0001445701.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e9lenchon's party distanced itself from the French marches against anti-Semitism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That is why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-snap-election-many-french-jews-reluctantly-endorse-far-right-over-dreaded-far-left\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">many Jews have chosen to vote for the RN<\/a>. A few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLP_officiel\/status\/1803363916384252155\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Le Pen denounced<\/a>: <em>\"The explosion of anti-Semitic acts, 300% more than in the first three months of 2023, should alert all French people: <strong>the stigmatization of Jews for months by the extreme left<\/strong> through the instrumentalization of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a real threat to civil peace.\"<\/em> Let us observe the paradox: <strong>according to many media, a right-wing party that clearly rejects anti-Semitism is \"extreme right\"<\/strong>, on a political map in the that the right without adjectives seems not to exist, <strong>but a leftist coalition that includes anti-Semitic parties is not classified as \"extreme\"<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>The extreme left and its speech encouraging violence<\/big><\/p>\n<p>To the question of anti-Semitism we could add another indicator that clearly makes a political option extremist: violence. In its eagerness to attract the Islamist vote, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2023\/10\/12\/melenchon-has-become-a-problem-for-the-entire-french-left_6166285_23.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e9lenchon's party refused to describe Hamas' attack against Israel as \"terrorist\"<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-unbowed-insoumise-far-left-party-jean-luc-melenchon-refusal-condemn-hamas-attacks-israel-war\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">refused to condemn him<\/a>. Furthermore, for months now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/03\/the-far-left-encourages-violence-in-france-says-it-is-class-struggle-and-blames-the-rich\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been encouraging riots in French cities<\/a>, promoted in many cases by the extreme left and Islamism.<\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/gaceta.es\/europa\/disturbios-y-violencia-ultraizquierdista-en-las-principales-ciudades-de-francia-tras-la-victoria-de-agrupacion-nacional-en-las-legislativas-20240701-0053\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the extreme left called for protests and caused riots against the electoral result<\/a>, <strong>exhibiting a clearly antidemocratic<\/strong>which, however, does not deserve the reproach of many media outlets that do consider \"extreme\" a party, the RN, that rejects violence and that has never called for protests against the result of an election. In the end, <strong>a common trend in the media is confirmed: whitewash the left, whatever it does, and demonize the right<\/strong>, even though it exhibits a much more democratic, peaceful and tolerant attitude than its rivals.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: AFP. Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon, leader of the far-left anti-Semitic party La France Insoumise, at a demonstration against Israel in Geneva on February 3, 2024.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, France held legislative elections, which concluded with a clear victory for Marine Le Pen&#8217;s National Rally (RN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[11829,22206,10497,10575,13695,13694,12546,2784,22205,12061],"class_list":["post-56388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-antisemitism","tag-ensemble","tag-far-left","tag-france","tag-jean-luc-melenchon","tag-la-france-insoumise","tag-les-republicains","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-nouveau-front-populaire-nfp","tag-rassemblement-national-rn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}