French Right-Wing Leader Bardella Files Lawsuit Over Antisemitic Remarks Allegation
Mediapart says it authenticated private chats that included antisemitic and conspiratorial remarks, while Bardella calls the claims false and plans a defamation suit.
- On Tuesday, National Rally president Jordan Bardella faced antisemitism allegations from investigative outlet Mediapart. Marine Le Pen, National Rally leader, expressed "total confidence" in her protégé, denouncing the report as a political attack.
- These allegations threaten the National Rally's years-long "de-demonization" strategy, which sought to distance the party from the antisemitic legacy of founder Jean-Marie Le Pen. Marine Le Pen expelled her father in 2015 to pivot toward mainstream electability.
- According to the Mediapart report, Bardella wrote comments claiming "the Jew has to dominate other peoples, crush them and rob them" in 2013. Bardella vehemently denied authorship, calling the report a "dirty-tricks operation" and launching legal action.
- Yonathan Arfi, head of French Jewish umbrella group CRIF, warned that substantiated remarks would represent "a stinging repudiation" of the party's sanitization strategy. Party leadership framed the allegations as an orchestrated "total war" to destabilize their 2027 campaign.
- Le Pen remains a front-runner for the 2027 presidential election to succeed President Emmanuel Macron. Party allies emphasize that opponents will do "everything — including the most despicable things" to derail this momentum.
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If Jordan Bardella is to be believed, he is the victim of a "political assassination attempt." But there is much evidence that accusations of fervent anti-Semitism in his youth could cost the right-wing nationalist leader dearly.
French Far-Right Leader Bardella Says He Has Filed Lawsuit Over Antisemitic Remarks Claim
French far–right leader Jordan Bardella said on Monday he had filed a defamation lawsuit against investigative website Mediapart over a report alleging he made antisemitic remarks in private messages over a decade ago, saying the story was an effort to “destabilize”...
The president of a party founded by former Waffen-SS would be... anti-Semitic. This is what Mediapart reveals in an investigation published yesterday, which highlights the conspiracy and anti-Semitic writings attributed to Jordan Bardella.
The National Group of Marine Le Pen faces a new scandal over the revelation of anti-Semitic comments by one of its members. But this time the specificity is given that it is not a grassroots militant or candidate from a small constituency, but one of the main leaders of this radical right-wing formation in France: MEP Jordan Bardella, 31 years old. The digital newspaper 'Mediapart' has revealed a series of messages that this leader allegedly wro…
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