Jan 8, 2025 · Jean-Marie Le Pen was an antisemite, a fascist, a racist, and a thug. Over decades in French politics he encouraged the pernicious idea that Jews aren’t “really” French, that Jews secretly control world politics, and that Nazis were the true heroes of World War II.

Jan 7, 2025 · A polarizing figure in French politics, Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence.

Oct 29, 2021 · Jean-Marie Le Pen claimed the comments carried no anti-Semitic connotations “except for my political enemies or imbeciles.” The court disagreed, with the presiding judge saying Friday that...

Jan 7, 2025 · (JTA) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right French leader who espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric and was convicted of Holocaust denial, has died at 96. His death was announced on social...

Mar 31, 2018 · PARIS — A French court upheld the Holocaust denial conviction of the far-right activist Jean-Marie Le Pen, while a different tribunal acquitted another prominent racist of hate incitement...

Jan 13, 2025 · France's far right tries to move away from past anti-Semitism. Devil of the Republic. Jean-Marie Le Pen also said, in 2014, that Patrick Bruel – a Jewish singer who'd criticised him – would be ...

Jan 7, 2025 · For decades, Israel refused to have any official ties with the French far right under Le Pen, an antisemitic politician who denied the Holocaust and said the gas chambers at Auschwitz were merely a 'marginal detail' in history

Sep 1, 2021 · The 93-year-old founder of France's main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, goes on trial Wednesday over allegations of once again inciting racial hatred, this time with comments targeting...

Sep 1, 2021 · Jean-Marie Le Pen, the 93-year-old founder of France's main far-right party, goes on trial Wednesday, accused of inciting racial hatred through comments targeting the Jewish pop singer and...

Jan 7, 2025 · The founder of the far-right Front National, who died on Tuesday, January 7, at the age of 96, frequently made racist and anti-Semitic comments. Even his daughter Marine sought to dissociate ...