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Jean-Marie Le Pen. Credit: Frederic Legrand, COMEO/Shutterstock.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right politician and Holocaust denier, dies at 96

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Jean-Marie Le Pen, a Holocaust denier and right-wing extremist who led the French far-right National Front Party, died on Tuesday. He was 96 years old. His family told AFP that he died in a care facility “surrounded...

The ‘far-right’ is the best choice for French Jews

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The first round of France’s “snap” elections on June 30 resulted in a significant win for the “far-right” party Rassemblement National (RN), which garnered about 33.15% of the vote. RN’s victory has been shocking to some but, as a...

France’s right wins big in first round of parliamentary vote

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France’s far-right topped the country’s first round of legislative elections on Sunday for the first time, with the National Rally, the party of Marine Le Pen, winning about one-third of the vote. Finishing second was...
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Credit: Pixabay.

Germany’s far-right comes to Yad Vashem

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Ever since its foundation in 1953 by an act of the Knesset, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has served admirably as Israel’s national memorial to the Holocaust. Millions of visitors have passed through its doors,...
A sampling of propaganda distributed by Patriot Front in 2022. Source: ADL report.

The ADL’s woke war on the right won’t stop antisemitism

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Sometimes, the most important questions are the ones that aren’t asked about the issues that generate the most concern. That’s certainly true with respect to the widespread and justified concern about a rising tide...
An antisemitic demonstration in Florida. Source: Screenshot.

How worrying is the far-right’s ‘Day of Hate’ stunt?

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Far-right hate groups have got the Jewish community scared and with good reason. After the murderous synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh in 2018 and Poway in 2019, extremist antisemitic hate ceased being a theoretical problem....
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, along with U.S. and Israeli officials, visited the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue shortly after the mass shooting on Oct. 27, 2018. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Conservative groups: ‘CNN’ downplays anti-Semitic hate and violence towards Orthodox Jews

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Orthodox and politically conservative Jewish groups are criticizing CNN’s special report on anti-Semitism that aired on Sunday night, alleging that it whitewashed anti-Semitism directed at Orthodox Jews coming from the political left. The hour-long “Rising Hate: Antisemitism in...
Elan Carr, former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Source: Screenshot.

Jews need to unite and ‘go on the offensive’ against anti-Semitism, assert leaders

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Jewish leaders at a virtual panel hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, held on Wednesday to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, were told by experts that the...
Polish President Andrzej Duda. Credit: Grabowski Foto/Shutterstock.

Heard again: Cries of ‘Death to the Jews!’ in a Polish city

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In her recent co-authored book Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland’s Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives, the Warsaw-based literary scholar Elzbieta Janicka recounts an episode from Poland’s past that sheds a great deal of light on Poland’s...
Amazon logo on the facade of one of its corporate office buildings in Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay area. Credit: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock.

Amazon pockets royalties from book by far-right leader who questions Holocaust

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Amazon is making up to 85 percent profit on sales of a book by the leader of a British far-right group who wrote about the “alleged extermination of 6 million Jews” in the Holocaust,...