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19/20: TRUE OR FALSE. Is it true that Jean-Marie Le Pen was not anti-Semitic?
True or False returns to the declaration of Jordan Bardella who defends the founder of the FN, Jean-Marie Le Pen. – (FRANCEINFO)
True or False returns to the declaration of Jordan Bardella who defends the founder of the FN, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Jordan Bardella, Sunday November 5, said that he did not believe “not that Jean-Marie Le Pen was anti-Semitic”. “We decided to delve back into the archives of the founder of the Front National“, says journalist Luc Brisson. The word anti-Semitism does appear in a conviction of Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1986. At the time, he targeted journalists who were Jewish or of Jewish ancestry.
Controversies all around
In addition to his conviction for anti-Semitism, he also caused scandal with his statements against the Jews. In 1990, he was questioned about whether Jews had too much power. He answers : “It depends in what area. That the Jews have a lot of power in the press, as the Bretons have in the navy, and the Corsicans in the customs (…) the people of the National Front have noticed that a certain number of Jewish lobbies, like that of Mr. Kahn, would have systematically persecuted them.“
Jean-Marie Le Pen was also condemned several times for having declared that the gas chambers had been “a detailed point of the history of the Second World War”. He reiterated his comments in 2015, which resulted in him being excluded from the National Front, a party that he notably co-founded with Pierre Bousquet, former Waffen SS.