Nobody should be surprised if the Israeli government soon hosts a visit from leading figures in France’s far right.
At least one minister from Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party endorsed Marine Le Pen’s National Rally ahead of the French National Assembly elections.
The pro-Israel lobby in Europe has lately warmed to that party, too.
A comment by Serge Klarsfeld, a Holocaust survivor who went on to hunt Nazi war criminals, indicating that he preferred the National Rally over the left-wing La France Insoumise has prompted similar remarks from other pro-Israel figures.
Richard Prasquier, a former head of CRIF, the main Israel lobby group in Paris, said that thinking about voting for a party founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen “turns my stomach.” Yet while Jean-Marie Le Pen was found guilty of anti-Semitic hate speech, his daughter Marine has displayed “impeccable behavior,” according to Prasquier…..more
