JERUSALEM POST
A far-right, pro-Israel France? Expert says this is where all of Europe is heading
by Michelle Malka Grossman
December 8, 2015

France went to the polls on Sunday in regional elections and the far-right National Front party, formerly known for its anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant stances but now known for its support of Israel and opposition to radical Islam, came out as a winner across the country. The regional election outcomes are taken seriously since they are thought to be a bellweather for what will come when France votes in the 2017 national elections. Though some have pinned the party’s success on its occurrence so soon after the November 13 terror attacks in Paris, one Israeli expert told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that France has been moving to the right for years and is part of an overall trend in Europe of far-right parties becoming the mainstream…So while National Front leader Marine Le Pen has gone to great lengths to show that her party is no longer anti-Semitic…that the party’s fairly-recent rejection of anti-Semitism has not come from a sudden love of Jews, but rather from a realization that they share with the Jewish community a common enemy in radical Islam. READ MORE