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LePen’s National Front: A Threat to the Jews of France

LePen’s National Front: A Threat to the Jews of France

November 16, 1997 | Dr. Robert O. Freedman
In early July 1997, Chaim Musicant, Director of the Conseil Representif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF), France's most important Jewish organization, told this writer with a combination of anger and astonishment: "It is incredible that fifty years after World War II, a racist party has arisen in France that was able to capture 15 percent of the vote in the May 1997 legislative elections."