France went to the polls on Sunday in regional elections and the far-right National Front party, formerly known for its anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant stances but now known for its support of Israel and opposition to radical Islam, came out as a winner across the country.
The regional election outcomes are taken seriously since they are thought to be a bellweather for what will come when France votes in the 2017 national elections.
Though some have pinned the party’s success on its occurrence so soon after the November 13 terror attacks in Paris, one Israeli expert told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that France has been moving to the right for years and is part of an overall trend in Europe of far-right parties becoming the mainstream.
Dr. Esther Lopatin, director of the European Studies program at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, said that Europeans are frustrated by leaders who have ignored their concerns about rapid immigration and radical Islam on the continent.
So while National Front leader Marine Le Pen has gone to great lengths to show that her party is no longer anti-Semitic (even to the point of saying she is a Zionist and kicking out the party’s founder, her own father, Jean-Marie Le Pen), Lopatin was careful to note that the party’s fairly-recent rejection of anti-Semitism has not come from a sudden love of Jews, but rather from a realization that they share with the Jewish community a common enemy in radical Islam.
Lopatin said that other far-right parties in other parts of Europe that used to view the Jews as an enemy are now some of the most supportive of Israel as well.
“It’s like they all of a sudden had the realization that the Jews are not really our enemies,” Lopatin said of similar trends in other parts of the continent. “[Jews] contribute to society, they don’t want to destroy our society or impose Shari’a law on our society. More and more people believe that.”
“Europe is going through a makeover,” she said, noting that overall voters are moving to the right politically because “the public is not happy.” The voters for far-right parties, Lopatin said, used to be only racists but now include the average French voter “the type that would have voted for [former French president Nicolas] Sarkozy”
“They have the feeling that they have been deserted by the leadership who didn’t take their concerns [about immigration and radical Islam] seriously,” she said.
Regarding the sudden support for Israel, Lapotin said that “[Le Pen] understands that people would have voted for her if not for her father.”
“Every time she has to vote regarding Israel, she usually votes in support … and we saw that with the labels.” Le Pen was among the minority that voted against the European Union’s Israeli settlement labeling policy.
Another factor contributing to the rise of the far-right is that the parties are becoming more sophisticated, Lopatin said. Wheras the senior Le Pen was an outright racist with unrealistic platforms, Lopatin described Marie Le Pen as being more diplomatic, realistic and reserved.
Given all this, why is the European Union still so harsh on Israel if it is moving to the right?
According to Lopatin, “it takes time to abandon a central mantra that the Europeans have believed for many many years … that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a problem and if this is solved, then we will live in a better world.”
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2 thoughts on “A far-right, pro-Israel France? Expert says this is where all of Europe is heading”
True Nationalism is neither ” Left/Right.”.
Please be mindful of this.
Unless the Left/Right paradigm is by broken ,the Jews can continue to divide nations, and people ….keeping them manipulated, and within their Matrix.
Ms Le Pen was given the Kosher Seal of approval.
They allowed her public access to ” Democracy ” only because of this.
Only ” One leader ,One Nation ,as was the slogan of the Third Reich ,and emulated by Marshall Petain as unity ,family tradition can break the Jews.
Putin broke the Talmudic dialectic in Russia .
Ms La Pen being ” Right Wing” is only another party to be controlled ,and manipulated by the Jews.
But on one front, I do believe she opposes aggression against Russia,and the attack on Assad.
Let us see what transpires.
If she stood for renationalising the banks owed by the Jews/Rothschild’s as Francois Mitterrand did in 1981 ,I would say she new the ” real deal ” .
For two decades this act by ex Vichy French official through ” Conservative ,” and later ” Socialist ” , freed France to the ire of the Jews .
When this was reversed by ” Conservative ” Jew Sarkozy did France return to the NWO.
Only by driving Jews of financial rule ,can any nation be free.
It says a lot how much things have changed when being opposed to the destruction of a country’s culture and ethnicity is “far right.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-AuGg1GwpY
A significant part of Europe has already had it’s culture and ethnic makeup destroyed. 20% of Germany is not ethnically German, cities like Marseille in France look they are part of Africa or maybe the middle east, Englishmen (white, which is the only kind of Englishmen) are a minority in London.
Europe will be destroyed and racist Jews like Gregor Gysi and Barbara Specter and their indoctrinated idiots that make up the European population will then be able to celebrate if the invasion of immigrants isn’t stopped.
‘The voters for far-right parties, Lopatin said, used to be only racists but now include the average French voter “the type that would have voted for [former French president Nicolas] Sarkozy”’
Which one is the racist according to Jew Lopatin, Jean Marie Le Pen (friend of Dieudonne) or his daughter Marine? I would hope that when or if “far right” parties get in power the real racists like Gysi, Specter and the rest of the Jews that are so inherently racist are exposed for the racists they are so others don’t have to listen to the insults of guttersnipe Jews like Lopatin.
This is Jean Marie Le Pen (an “anti-semite” to Jews because he called the non-existent gas chambers of WW II a “detail” of WW II) with Dieudonne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpyptSMiLXU
Here is my hope if “far right” parties get in power. People insist on “free speech” in Europe and the “far right” parties don’t bow to the Jews that pushed thru the censorship laws that see people thrown in jail for writing a history books they don’t like. People start discussing long hidden truths, like the fact that 80 to 85% of the first Soviet government was Jewish and Jews played a (the?) leading role in the Soviet Union until the end of WW II. That they were the leaders when tens of millions were being massacred in the Soviet Union and Hitler said this will stop at our eastern border. That Robert Faurisson will be interviewed on French television and he can talk about how Jews would push, threaten and punch him and others in French courtrooms while the French police looked on and did nothing. He can explain that the country was 100% controlled by racist Jews that exercised that power every day. It wouldn’t be the first time a politician got in power and didn’t do exactly what they said they would do.
If the “far right” is that much under Jew influence that it will continue to censor and punish writers and others that put Jews in a bad light and if it censors the internet, as the Jews want (this has already begun) then the Jews will be able to keep their stranglehold on the west. But if they refuse I think the world might see how disgustingly the Jew has behaved. Then, maybe we can see a change.
True Nationalism is neither ” Left/Right.”.
Please be mindful of this.
Unless the Left/Right paradigm is by broken ,the Jews can continue to divide nations, and people ….keeping them manipulated, and within their Matrix.
Ms Le Pen was given the Kosher Seal of approval.
They allowed her public access to ” Democracy ” only because of this.
Only ” One leader ,One Nation ,as was the slogan of the Third Reich ,and emulated by Marshall Petain as unity ,family tradition can break the Jews.
Putin broke the Talmudic dialectic in Russia .
Ms La Pen being ” Right Wing” is only another party to be controlled ,and manipulated by the Jews.
But on one front, I do believe she opposes aggression against Russia,and the attack on Assad.
Let us see what transpires.
If she stood for renationalising the banks owed by the Jews/Rothschild’s as Francois Mitterrand did in 1981 ,I would say she new the ” real deal ” .
For two decades this act by ex Vichy French official through ” Conservative ,” and later ” Socialist ” , freed France to the ire of the Jews .
When this was reversed by ” Conservative ” Jew Sarkozy did France return to the NWO.
Only by driving Jews of financial rule ,can any nation be free.
It says a lot how much things have changed when being opposed to the destruction of a country’s culture and ethnicity is “far right.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-AuGg1GwpY
A significant part of Europe has already had it’s culture and ethnic makeup destroyed. 20% of Germany is not ethnically German, cities like Marseille in France look they are part of Africa or maybe the middle east, Englishmen (white, which is the only kind of Englishmen) are a minority in London.
Europe will be destroyed and racist Jews like Gregor Gysi and Barbara Specter and their indoctrinated idiots that make up the European population will then be able to celebrate if the invasion of immigrants isn’t stopped.
‘The voters for far-right parties, Lopatin said, used to be only racists but now include the average French voter “the type that would have voted for [former French president Nicolas] Sarkozy”’
Which one is the racist according to Jew Lopatin, Jean Marie Le Pen (friend of Dieudonne) or his daughter Marine? I would hope that when or if “far right” parties get in power the real racists like Gysi, Specter and the rest of the Jews that are so inherently racist are exposed for the racists they are so others don’t have to listen to the insults of guttersnipe Jews like Lopatin.
This is Jean Marie Le Pen (an “anti-semite” to Jews because he called the non-existent gas chambers of WW II a “detail” of WW II) with Dieudonne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpyptSMiLXU
Here is my hope if “far right” parties get in power. People insist on “free speech” in Europe and the “far right” parties don’t bow to the Jews that pushed thru the censorship laws that see people thrown in jail for writing a history books they don’t like. People start discussing long hidden truths, like the fact that 80 to 85% of the first Soviet government was Jewish and Jews played a (the?) leading role in the Soviet Union until the end of WW II. That they were the leaders when tens of millions were being massacred in the Soviet Union and Hitler said this will stop at our eastern border. That Robert Faurisson will be interviewed on French television and he can talk about how Jews would push, threaten and punch him and others in French courtrooms while the French police looked on and did nothing. He can explain that the country was 100% controlled by racist Jews that exercised that power every day. It wouldn’t be the first time a politician got in power and didn’t do exactly what they said they would do.
If the “far right” is that much under Jew influence that it will continue to censor and punish writers and others that put Jews in a bad light and if it censors the internet, as the Jews want (this has already begun) then the Jews will be able to keep their stranglehold on the west. But if they refuse I think the world might see how disgustingly the Jew has behaved. Then, maybe we can see a change.