“You should be ashamed! You are Jewish and you work with Mélenchon.”

This is what an angry French woman said Raphael Glucksmanna Jewish socialist – and center-left hopeful in the upcoming presidential election – who is cooperating in the Popular Front with the Popular Front party. “Invincible France” From the anti-Semitic Mélenchon and other smaller left-wing parties that make no secret of their admiration for it. agitation. need to defeat Marine Le Pen He brought together, in an unnatural collaboration, all the forces of the broader left, including himself Dutch. A form, a historical caricature, that some socialists should be ashamed of.

On the other hand, Marine Le Pen’s party took a stunning turn, abandoning the anti-Semitism she inherited from her father, and taking a clear position in favor of Israel. It is this position that led the prominent French Jews – along with the presence of Mélenchon in France Popular front– To stand publicly in favor of Le Pen. A position that raised eyebrows, but has a logical explanation.

France in the first decades of the last century was characterized by its anti-Semitism to the extent that the philosopher George Steiner To say that one of the surprises of history is that the extermination of the Jews was carried out by the Germans, while the natural thing would have been done by the French. This is traditional French Anti-Semitism It was also reinforced by the arrival of millions of immigrants from countries where anti-Semitism is an official state ideology. Thus, the explosive mixture that we see igniting after October 7.

At the same time, immigrants from the French suburbs constitute an important political dimension that almost all parties cannot, and do not want to, ignore. Let me remind you that President Macron did not attend the large rally in support of Israel that took place after the events of October 7. Absences are recorded and assessed accordingly.

Today we can say without fear that part of the Popular Front has embraced Islamic fascism. In other words, an ideology that does not want to coexist, but to impose itself, to dominate. This is what is already happening in the Muslim quarters of Paris and Marseille. There the power of the French state is subject to the condition that the local nobility allows it to be exercised.

Is Marine Le Pen’s conversion to Judaism hypocritical? Or is it opportunism with all the characteristics of opportunism? That remains to be seen. However, between Mélenchon and Le Pen, a large portion of the French Jewish community chooses Le Pen. One is a carbine anti-Semitic, her boyfriend agitation She doesn’t hide it, the other may not actually pretend. But unfortunately, the French Israelis will face this dilemma in the power game that will take place next Sunday in France. Both extremes have always been characterized by their anti-Semitism, and the choice will be the lesser evil. Certainty in the face of emergency.

So it is no coincidence that some Jewish families are gradually starting to leave France.