I am NOT anti-cement!
I don’t even know what he means. Possibly it makes more sense in French.
Trying to understand the problem with his statement. Yes, the gas chambers were a “detail” of WWII. Does he imply they were a minor detail? Doesn’t seem so. Is it connected to other statements he has made which were more specific in anti-semitism? I can’t judge from this article.
The atom bomb was detail as well. So were 15 million dead Chinese, another detail. There were many gruesome details
The author/article are acting much like our national media. It seems they wish to make a scandal out of the fact he said anything at all.
WTactualF is the deal with that statement? Were they not a detail of WWII? or is it implying that he is limiting them to a “detail” of WWII?
If they are so “far-right”, why would they be boot lickers for German invaders? Wouldn’t they be French nationalists, instead?
Marine Le Pen is the daughter and is now the head of the party, taking over from her dad. However the Antisemitic background of the party is not easy to get rid of, internally!
A lot of people (inside and outside the country) like them because of their stance towards the Muslims, but the problem is ... you find that their stance towards the Jews is pretty bad!
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Marine Le Pen watch: Meet the man tracking every racist and anti-Semitic comment of FN party
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/marine-le-pen-watch-meet-man-tracking-every-racist-anti-semitic-comment-far-right-fn-party-1491647
“We look at the face these candidates propose, we don’t look behind. And what’s very surprising is that even without looking behind the face of the FN, we still see comments advocating hatred and violence and calls to kill in numbers that are not anecdotal.”
The founder of the platform said despite the fact these lines of thought have receded in the French society, “at the FN, that has stayed”.
“We have candidates obsessed with the Jewish conspiracy, who believe black people are 2000 years behind, who compare Christiane Taubira (a black minister) to a monkey,” he told IBTimes UK. “And the fact this is all on public profile pages of those candidates, for instance, is bewildening.
“It’s easy to say what has shocked us: some candidates say ‘death to the Jews’, some say ‘death to the Arabs’, some rejoice at the death of Roma gypsies – it’s not really subtle.”
Another older article ... and there is a slew of articles on this one, so there’s nothing special about this article over another article on the same event ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen is the father and the former leader of the party, while Marine Le Pen is the daughter and the current leader of the party.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen Slammed For Apparent Anti-Semitic Remark
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/09/jean-marie-le-pen-antisemitism_n_5473947.html
One of the big winner’s of Europe’s parliamentary elections, France’s National Front Party, is embroiled in scandal and infighting after recent remarks by its founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, have been roundly criticized as anti-Semitic.
In a video posted on the National Front website, Le Pen was asked about Patrick Bruel, a Jewish singer who has criticized the far-right party. According to a New York Times translation of the response, Le Pen said, “We’ll include him in the next batch,” using the term “fournee,” which refers to a batch of bread baked in the oven. Critics have condemned the comment as a reference to Nazi gas chambers.
The incident has caused many in the party to publicly distance themselves from Le Pen, who is the honorary president of the National Front. In a rare split from her father, Marine Le Pen — the party’s leader — called the statement a “political error.” The video has been removed from the National Front website.
Apparently there are quite a few Jews, also.
Why is this news? It seems to me to be a hit piece written with just enough ambiguity so as to lead the casual reader to mistake the Anti-Semite father for the daughter who has aggressively courted France's Jews.
Well, the dude is stupid because he talks about the Germans.
Fact is, there was big powers like China, Japan, Russia etc... and there were in those places other genocides.
The problem of holocaust denial is that some people minimize what happened to jews instead of pointing to the second great holocaust denial issue: ie. the pipe dream disarmament orchestrated by the League of Nations.
Jews were disarmed, smug irresponsible members of the league disarmed thinking the collective whole would take care and had nothing to fear against a German thug.
Sadly NATO is also sleeping on similar paper tiger agreements, and, to wit, Obama backtracking on Iran, Cuba etc...
I find it stupid and disingenuous of the French far Right to keep trying to ignore certain atrocities instead of expanding and elaborating on them.
Truly, some Jews on the left are in holocaust denial, but not about antisemitism, but general holocaust denial regarding disarmament. No indeed, it was a free and gun violence free zone in the ghetto... until hitler decided to have his meal.
The French Far right is essentialy gelded and manipulated by communists.
Yes, we got rid of Hitler, but we kept Statism and Stalinism, both which were as important, if not more important, a role in the holocaust.
What a cynical joke! We fought antisemitism but kept the disarmament mantra makers unprosecuted!