European Jewish leader under fire for meeting with Le Pen

Vadim Rabinovich defends decision; says he believes far-right leader’s condemnation of anti-Semitism is ‘sincere’

Ed note–as we have discussed often both here on this website and accompanying radio program, organized Jewish interests are NOT worried about ‘white nationalists’. The reason they are not worried about them is because they have spent a lot of time studying their MO, what makes them tick, and exactly to what extent their ‘activity’ poses an existential threat to what organized Jewish interests have outlined for themselves, both in the present and in the future.

In the first case, ‘white nationalists’ don’t really know what they want, other than to be part of some ‘movement’ where they are free to growl, snarl, scratch, and bite at those perceived to be ‘enemies of the white people’. The profile to which most of them overwhelmingly fit is of the angry white male–unmarried, alienated from familial relationships, under-educated, under-employed and who blames everything and everyone for his station in life.

This being the case, organized Jewish interests understand that a ‘movement’ such as that run by Le Pen that is based for the most part solely on negative emotions and feelings of embitterment against ‘the other’ can be harnessed to their benefit, and especially with regards to the intrinsically-Jewish goal of stoking hatred for Muslims in advancing Judea’s war on Islam.

That this is for the most part already a fait-accompli is self-evident. With all the turmoil going on in Europe–economic, demographic, etc, and the fact that all of this is directly traceable back to organized Jewish interests, and yet, which group of people represents the bull’s eye of White Nationalists’ ire? Muslim immigrants either fleeing the wars and/or the economic instability instigated by the West under the control of organized Jewish interests. They protest the ‘Islamization of the West’ all the while that the ‘Judaization’ of their countries is a done-deal.

In the meantime, they can always count on some dolt calling himself a ‘WN’ to parade around in his Nazi uniform, make the Nazi salute, shout ‘Heil Hitler’ and ‘Jews to the gas chambers’ or something similar, as well as engaging in the kind of ugly, overt racism that is openly embraced by certain creatures within the WN movement in the US.

It is for these reasons and others that individuals such as Rabinovich is not plussed about playing smoochy-face with Le Pen, because at the end of the day, they understand that this great reservoir of negative emotion fueling the engine of White Nationalism can in the end be used with great success in continuing the present drive to see Islam destroyed.

Times of Israel

The Ukraine-born oligarch who founded the European Jewish Parliament met with Marine Le Pen, a far-right leader in France who is shunned by many Jewish groups worldwide.

Wednesday’s meeting between Vadim Rabinovich and Le Pen was in the framework of a roundtable discussion that Rabinovich held in Strasbourg, France, with 10 representatives of the Europe of Nations and Freedom bloc of nationalist parties chaired by Le Pen, who heads the National Front, the third largest party in France.

The European Jewish Congress condemned Rabinovich, who is a lawmaker in Ukraine, for meeting with Le Pen.

“That any European Jew would ever consider themselves available to fig-leaf racists and anti-Semites is shocking in the extreme,” its president, Moshe Kantor, said in a statement.

EJC has criticized the European Jewish Parliament, which Rabinovich co-founded in 2012 and now leads, and disputed its claim to represent European Jewry.

Levi Matusof, a French-born rabbi and a member of the European Jewish Parliament’s 120-member board, resigned shortly after the meeting in Strasbourg, which he said was “opportunistic and inappropriate.”

But in an interview with JTA, Rabinovich defended his decision to meet Le Pen because “only dialogue can lead to progress, and because Ms. Le Pen has confirmed that anti-Semitism is not acceptable.”

The Europe of Nations and Freedom Bloc includes members of the European Parliament from the Austrian FPO party, a group with a history of Holocaust denial, Nazi collaboration and racist statements, as well as the Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang and other groups with a similar history and ideology.

Le Pen has tried to soften the image of the National Front in part by distancing the party from its founder — Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie — who has been convicted multiple times for inciting racial hatred and once famously claimed that the gas chambers were but a “detail” of World War II. National Front has made inroads in the Jewish community.

In February, Roger Cukierman, president of the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish groups, said that while Marine Le Pen “cannot be faulted personally,” there is a consensus in the Jewish world that “there are all the Holocaust deniers, all the supporters of Vichy and [Philippe] Petain” behind her.

“She is not her father,” Rabinovich said of Marine Le Pen. “We have had a constructive dialogue where we accepted the need to combat anti-Semitism, and I believe she is sincere about this.”

In 2011, the French Jewish radio station Radio J was pressured by other Jewish groups into canceling an interview with Marine Le Pen.

Iosif Akselrud, a Ukrainian member of the European Jewish Parliament, said that Rabinovich raised the issue of meeting with Le Pen at a plenary session of the group, “and a majority of deputies, about 90 percent, said we should start a dialogue with her because this will help fight anti-Semitism. So this meeting is according to the agreed-upon EJP policy.”