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Serge Klarsfeld: "We should rejoice that the National Rally is taking part in the march against anti-Semitism"

11/9/2023, 11:44:00 AM

Highlights: Serge Klarsfeld: "We should rejoice that the National Rally is taking part in the march against anti-Semitism" The lawyer is president of the Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees of France. He welcomes this positive development, but is worried about the resurgence of far-left anti-Semitic, and is concerned about Marine Le Pen's RN. The invitation, both solemn and unifying, calling on the French people to react seems to me not only legitimate, but necessary. The threats that are made against them, the Jews take seriously.


EXCLUSIVE - For the lawyer, president of the Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees of France, Marine Le Pen's RN has broken with the anti-Semitism of its origins. He welcomes this positive development, but is worried about the resurgence of far-left anti-Semitism, and...

LE FIGARO. - What do you think of the initiative to organize a march against anti-Semitism in Paris proposed by Gérard Larcher and Yaël Braun-Pivet?

Serge KLARSFELD. - The invitation, both solemn and unifying, made by the President of the National Assembly and the President of the Senate, calling on the French people to react, to march against anti-Semitism in a period of resurgence of anti-Semitic acts seems to me not only legitimate, but necessary. In 1940, the Jews were confronted with their extermination. The Israelis are facing their extermination: they have just had bloody proof of the exterminating will of their enemies. The threats that are made against them, the Jews take seriously.

Marine LePen called on National Rally voters to go there, while government spokesman Olivier Véran said that the presence of the RN was not desirable...

It seems to me to be quite positive that this political party is...

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