{"id":244447,"date":"2021-10-23T05:50:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T05:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244447"},"modified":"2021-10-25T07:18:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T07:18:57","slug":"zemmour-the-useful-jew-leading-far-right-push-for-power-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244447","title":{"rendered":"Zemmour, the \u2018useful Jew\u2019 leading far-right push for power in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shirli Sitbon \u2013 The JC.com Oct 21, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Far-right French-Jewish demagogue Eric Zemmour is leading the challengers against Emmanuel Macron in the polls with six months to go until the presidential elections.<\/p>\n

Although condemned by French-Jewish organisations for racism \u2014 and even antisemitism \u2014 some Jewish voters see him as a potential saviour as they face growing insecurity and Islamist antisemitism.<\/p>\n

Zemmour has yet to officially declare his campaign as he promotes his book La France N\u2019a Pas Dit Son Dernier Mot <\/em>( France Hasn\u2019t Had Its Last Word<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Still, polls show him ahead of Marine Le Pen \u2014 successor to her father Jean-Marie Le Pen as leader of the French far- right \u2014 and poised to reach the second round of voting to face President Macron in a run-off.<\/p>\n

A journalist and a pundit\u00a0on French television, Zemmour is accused of stirring up hatred with his warnings of a \u201cwar of race\u201d and that France is in danger of becoming an \u201cIslamic republic\u201d.<\/p>\n

Born to a Berber Jewish family that fled the Algerian War for France, Zemmour, 63, has even courted antisemitism. He has defended the Vichy regime over its treatment of Jews, suggested that Alfred Dreyfus may not have been wrongfully convicted and was possibly guilty of being a spy, and said recent Jewish victims of terror in France were \u201cforeigners\u201d.<\/p>\n

The vice-president of Jewish umbrella organisation Conseil Repr\u00e9sentatif des Institutions Juives de France<\/em> (CRIF) Yonathan Arfi told the JC: \u201cZemmour has the same programme as [Jean-Marie]\u00a0Le Pen. But since he is Jewish, and isn\u2019t called Le Pen, some Jews are not as cautious and think he is more acceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Jews do back him and they are making a lot of noise on social media. There is a bit of a populist trend but luckily most Jews are moderate. No Jewish institution has backed him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zemmour has claimed that Vichy ruler Marshal Petain protected French Jews by sending foreigners in the first wave of deportations to the death camps from France. Of the 75,721 Jews who were sent to be murdered, a third were French, and Petain even handed over Jewish children before the Germans asked for them.<\/p>\n

The UEJF Jewish students\u2019 association sued Zemmour for denying crimes against humanity over the false statements but lost.<\/p>\n

Zemmour has also been condemned for saying that terror victims who are buried abroad are not French.<\/p>\n

Talking about four victims of the 2012 attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse who were buried in Israel, he said: \u201cMurderers or innocent people, persecutors or victims, foes or friends, for them, France was suitable to live in {\u2026} but they wouldn\u2019t leave their bones in France, they are foreigners first and foremost and they wanted to remain foreign even after death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many were shocked by Zemmour\u2019s statement, with the newspaper Tribune Juive describing the comparison of a terrorist with his victims as \u201cvile\u201d.<\/p>\n

As Zemmour gains momentum, leaders of Jewish organisations have criticised him and called on others not to support him.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrench Jews shouldn\u2019t give Zemmour a single vote,\u201d said Francis Kalifat, head of CRIF, on Jewish radio.<\/p>\n

But there was a backlash, with one lawyer saying: \u201cI\u2019m not saying Jews must vote for Zemmour but Jews can vote for anyone and they don\u2019t take orders from the head of CRIF.\u201d On social media, CRIF and other critics of Zemmour have been smeared as \u201ccourt Jews\u201d.<\/p>\n

In an interview Zemmour responded: \u201cKalifat could make the case for the craziest antisemites who think Jews vote together as one homogenous group to rule over France. Kalifat is the useful idiot of last surviving antisemites in France.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kalifat hit back saying Zemmour \u201cis not a useful idiot but a useful Jew for revisionists and for whom he\u2019s now a leading figure\u201d<\/p>\n

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Marine Le Pen of the Front National had posed a real threat to Macron. At least she did until Eric Zemmour emerged but is he authentic? Or is he just another false opposition figure who is being used to divide French nationalists opposed to the political establishment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":244449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244450,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244447\/revisions\/244450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}