France and the dangerous whitening of the anti-Semitic and anti-democratic far-left

@ElentirENG ES 7·01·2024 · 8:39 0

This Sunday, France held legislative elections, which concluded with a clear victory for Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN).

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Le Pen's party wins in 297 of the 577 constituencies

As the journalist Luis del Pino has pointed out, the right-wing RN has won in 297 of the 577 constituencies, with 39 deputies who have obtained more than 50% of the votes and will no longer have to go through the second round. The leftist coalition New Popular Front (NFP) has come second, winning in 159 constituencies, with 32 deputies who have achieved more than 50% of the votes.

The center-left coalition Ensemble (Together), supported by Macron, has come third, winning in 70 constituencies and with only 2 deputies exceeding 50%. The centrist party Les Républicains, partner of the European People's Party, has come fourth, winning in only 20 constituencies and only one by more than 50%.

Many media exhibit their bias by calling the RN “extreme right”

The treatment of these elections in many media is already repetitive, but that does not make it any less criticizable. Headlines referring to the RN as "extreme right" are numerous, but the term "extreme left" is hardly used to refer to the NFP, which includes communists and the anti-Semitic ultra-left of Mélenchon, whose party, La Insoumise France has been winking at Islamism for years.

A wave of anti-Semitism encouraged by Islamism and the extreme left

This media treatment ignores a paradox: France is suffering a wave of anti-Semitism unprecedented since the Second World War, but unlike what happened then, when this hatred of Jews was promoted by the extreme right , this time it is the extreme left and Islamism that are responsible, motivated by their hatred of the State of Israel, which in the end always ends up being directed against the Jewish community, although some insist on affirming that anti-Zionism does not It is anti-Semitism. A few months ago, Mélenchon's party distanced itself from the French marches against anti-Semitism.

That is why many Jews have chosen to vote for the RN. A few days ago, Marine Le Pen denounced: "The explosion of anti-Semitic acts, 300% more than in the first three months of 2023, should alert all French people: the stigmatization of Jews for months by the extreme left through the instrumentalization of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a real threat to civil peace." Let us observe the paradox: according to many media, a right-wing party that clearly rejects anti-Semitism is "extreme right", on a political map in the that the right without adjectives seems not to exist, but a leftist coalition that includes anti-Semitic parties is not classified as "extreme".

The extreme left and its speech encouraging violence

To the question of anti-Semitism we could add another indicator that clearly makes a political option extremist: violence. In its eagerness to attract the Islamist vote, Mélenchon's party refused to describe Hamas' attack against Israel as "terrorist" and refused to condemn him. Furthermore, for months now has been encouraging riots in French cities, promoted in many cases by the extreme left and Islamism.

Just yesterday, the extreme left called for protests and caused riots against the electoral result, exhibiting a clearly antidemocraticwhich, however, does not deserve the reproach of many media outlets that do consider "extreme" a party, the RN, that rejects violence and that has never called for protests against the result of an election. In the end, a common trend in the media is confirmed: whitewash the left, whatever it does, and demonize the right, even though it exhibits a much more democratic, peaceful and tolerant attitude than its rivals.

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Photo: AFP. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far-left anti-Semitic party La France Insoumise, at a demonstration against Israel in Geneva on February 3, 2024.