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Amichai Chikli invites politicians from European far-right parties to Israel, in a first

Also on the docket are figures who have criticized the far right, including the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt and Armin Laschet of Germany’s center-right leading party.

|ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
Amichai Chikli speaks at Conference of Presidents, February 16, 2025.
Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and member of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group during a debate about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the National Assembly in Paris, October 23, 2023.

Despite National Rally's rebrand, Israel is still stuck with a Le Pen dilemma - comment

France’s National Rally (RN) has admittedly rebranded itself and made pro-Israel statements, but it shed neither its antisemitic grandees nor its pro-Russian credentials.

|ByEMMANUEL NAVON
Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and member of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group during a debate about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the National Assembly in Paris, October 23, 2023.

French Jewish community heads request meeting with National Rally's Le Pen

The Jewish leaders represented small communities and suburbs and did not come from any of the country's established Jewish groups or institutions.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Supporters of French President Emmanuel Macron, candidate for his re-election, wave French and European Union flags as they react after early results in the second round of the 2022 French presidential election, at the Champs de Mars in Paris, France April 24, 2022

French Jews relieved, but also concerned, over results of presidential elections

The greatest danger now threatening France is that the moderate parties will lose the June legislative elections and that either Le Pen or Melenchon will win them.

|ByRINA BASSIST

Le Pen’s toxic vision

France’s Jewish community recognizes the dangers inherent in a victory for Le Pen.

APRIL 27, 2017ByILAN EVYATAR
CAMPAIGN POSTERS for candidates Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN), Jean-Luc Melenchon of the Parti de Gauche, and Benoit Hamon of the Socialist Party who were running in the 2017 French presidential election

Analysis: France rejects the establishment

Elections in France have been turbulent and full of surprises, and continue to evoke fear and hope in France as well as in the whole region as the last round approaches.

APRIL 24, 2017ByRINA BASSIST
Macron, Fillon, Le Pen and Mélenchon

Tel Aviv’s French community turns out in force for presidential election

‘I just don’t want Le Pen to take my passport,’ says one voter

APRIL 24, 2017ByELIYAHU KAMISHER
VOTERS STAND in line at the French Institute in Tel Aviv yesterday.

Le Pen, Macron in tight race as France votes for president

Eleven candidates will be narrowed to two for final May runoff

APRIL 23, 2017ByMICHAEL WILNER
Macron, Fillon, Le Pen and Mélenchon

Russian chief rabbi: France’s Jews should leave if Le Pen wins election

Many French Jews regard Marine Le Pen as dangerous, and the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities has called her and the communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon 'candidates of hatred.'

APRIL 23, 2017ByJTA
Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for French 2017 presidential election, attends a campaign rally in Paris, France, April 17, 2017

Le Pen: Expel foreigners who are on watch lists

En Marche candidate Emmanuel Macron urged the country not to "give in to fear" in the wake of the attack.

APRIL 21, 2017ByREUTERS
France's far-right National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a political rally in Six-Fours, near Toulon

Israel condemns Le Pen’s disclaimer of France’s role in the Holocaust

“This declaration is contrary to historical truth,” Israel's Foreign Ministry said.

APRIL 10, 2017ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, JTA
Marine Le Pen

Official in Marine Le Pen's party suspended over Holocaust-denying statement

Benoit Loueillet, an official in the far-right National Front party, was suspended after he was recorded saying that "there was no mass murder as has been said."

MARCH 16, 2017ByREUTERS
Marine Le Pen (L), France's National Front political party leader, sits next to her father Jean-Marie Le Pen [File]

France's far-right Le Pen loses EU parliament immunity over ISIS tweets

The French National Front party leader is under investigation for posting three graphic images of Islamic State executions on Twitter in December 2015.

MARCH 2, 2017ByREUTERS
France's far-right National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a political rally in Six-Fours, near Toulon

Le Pen refuses to wear headscarf, nixes meeting with top Lebanese cleric

"You can pass on my respects to the Grand Mufti, but I will not cover myself up," says French far-right presidential contender.

FEBRUARY 21, 2017ByREUTERS
Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for French 2017 presidential election, rejects a headscarf for her meeting Lebanon's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abed el-Lateef Daryan in Beirut, Lebanon February 21, 2017