{"id":56452,"date":"2024-07-08T07:01:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56452"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T05:01:04","slug":"the-cordon-sanitaire-against-the-far-right-has-handed-france-over-to-an-anti-semite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/08\/the-cordon-sanitaire-against-the-far-right-has-handed-france-over-to-an-anti-semite\/","title":{"rendered":"The 'cordon sanitaire' against the 'far-right' has handed France over to an anti-Semite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years now, a large part of the European political class has been raising alarm bells against what they describe as the \"extreme right.\"<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/01\/france-and-the-dangerous-whitening-of-the-anti-semitic-and-anti-democratic-far-left\/\">France and the dangerous whitening of the anti-Semitic and anti-democratic far-left<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/27\/a-report-by-a-european-ngo-uncovers-the-new-antisemitism-of-the-far-left\/\">A report by a European NGO uncovers the new antisemitism of the far-left<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>When many people hear that expression, what they imagine is <strong>parades of brown shirts with red armbands and a swastika<\/strong>. However, this \"extreme right\" that some have warned against for years has nothing to do with Nazism. In fact, they often call \"extreme right\"<\/strong> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/27\/a-report-by-a-european-ngo-uncovers-the-new-antisemitism-of-the-far-left\/\">a conservative right that is democratic and has sympathy for Israel<\/a>, something unthinkable in the authentic extreme right, which has traditionally been antidemocratic and anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n<p><big>The antisemitism of the French extreme left<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Last year, a European NGO published <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230724005121\/https:\/\/ec4i.org\/israel-ranking-2023\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\" _blank\">a study<\/a> that indicates that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/27\/un-informe-de-una-ong-europea-destapa-el -new-antisemitism-of-the-extreme-left\/\">of the 20 European parties most hostile to Israel, 17 are from The Left<\/a>, <strong>the extreme left group in the European Parliament<\/strong>. In case anyone has not noticed this information, according to that report <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230724005121\/https:\/\/ec4i.org\/israel-ranking-2023\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the most anti-Israel party in France is La France Insoumise<\/a>, led by Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon.<\/p>\n<p>This hatred of Israel usually goes hand in hand with hatred of Jews, and the French extreme left is no exception. Nine months ago, <strong>when Hamas perpetrated the largest massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust<\/strong>, <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\">M\u00e9lenchon refused to condemn that massacre<\/a> and <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\">refused to label Hamas terrorists as \"terrorists.\"<\/a> Thus, <strong>the torture and murder of hundreds of people, the act of burning alive entire families (including children and babies) and raping women in droves for being Jewish<\/strong> is something that, according to M\u00e9lenchon, It does not deserve any condemnation and cannot be classified as terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><big>Macron's betrayal of the Jewish community by allying himself with the far-left<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Let us keep in mind that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20240125-anti-semitic-acts-nearly-quadrupled-last-year-in-france-says-jewish-organisation\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over the last year, acts of anti-Semitism have quadrupled in France<\/a>, a wave of hatred of Jews unprecedented since the Second World War. <strong>This anti-Semitic wave, largely fueled by the extreme left and Islamism<\/strong> - nourished by the massive immigration arriving in France from Muslim countries - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-snap-election-many-french-jews-reluctantly-endorse-far-right-over-dreaded-far-left\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caused many Jews to have decided to vote for the party of Le Pen<\/a>, something unthinkable years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/french-elections-are-step-toward-mass-jewish-immigration-to-israel-aliyah-pro-says\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some 50,000 French Jews are considering leaving their country<\/a> and emigrating to Israel due to this wave of anti-Semitism in France. In recent days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/macron-partys-endorsement-of-antisemitic-pro-hamas-far-left-shocks-french-jews\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the French Jewish community has indignantly attended Macron's support for the anti-Semitic far-left<\/a>, <strong>a gesture that they consider a betrayal<\/strong> by the current president of the Republic against the Jews . Let us remember that 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 did not want to attend the French marches against anti-Semitism<\/a>, called to show French society's rejection of this wave of hatred. <strong>Once again, it was clear that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are the same thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>The victory of the anti-Semitic far-left thanks to Macron<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the second round of the French legislative elections culminated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/france\/20240707-france-s-leftist-new-popular-front-wins-a-shock-victory-%E2%80%93-but-now-the-hard-part-begins\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a victory for M\u00e9lenchon's anti-Semitic extreme left<\/a>, <strong> thanks to the support received from Macron<\/strong>'s coalition in many constituencies, in which the candidates of the French president's formation withdrew to concentrate the votes on the far-left New Popular Front (NFP). <strong>Thus, Macron's \"cordon sanitaire\" against the \"far-right\" meant handing over France to an anti-Semite<\/strong>, to a fanatic who did not want to condemn the largest massacre suffered by Jews since the Second World War, to <strong>an extremist who does not condemn Hamas terrorism<\/strong> and who <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\/\">has been encouraging violence on the streets of France<\/a> in recent months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does \"moderation\" and \"democratic values\" mean putting France in the hands of a fanatic who hates Jews and whitewashes terrorists?<\/strong> Of course, there are reasons to point out the mistakes made by the party by Le Pen (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/02\/01\/france-the-definitive-betrayal-of-marine-le-pen-and-her-party-to-the-defense-of-life\/\">I already pointed out some here<\/a>), but <strong>that the theater of warning against a false \"extreme right\" has given victory to an anti-Semite and ally of Islam<\/strong>is something for which a large part of the French political class and the rest of Europe, and also many media, <strong>should feel ashamed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theleft_eu\/51828662021\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Left<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years now, a large part of the European political class has been raising alarm bells against what they describe as the \u00abextreme right.\u00bb<\/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":[10373],"tags":[11829,10573,10497,10873,10575,13695,13694,22205],"class_list":["post-56452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-antisemitism","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-far-left","tag-far-right","tag-france","tag-jean-luc-melenchon","tag-la-france-insoumise","tag-nouveau-front-populaire-nfp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56452"}],"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=56452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}