{"id":2032,"date":"2017-04-22T22:06:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2017-04-22T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T22:06:07","slug":"le-pen-on-the-brink-of-presidency-nativism-holocaust-denial-and-anti-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/le-pen-on-the-brink-of-presidency-nativism-holocaust-denial-and-anti-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Pen on the Brink of Presidency: Nativism, Holocaust Denial, and Anti-Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems, indeed, that the far right party in France is leading. The National Front (abbreviated \u201cFN\u201d for Front National in French) could possibly win the election after having lost in 2002 to Jacques Chirac. This is due to the fact that, in the last 15 years, France has become more conservative and protectionist, intensified by issues such as the migrant crisis and several terrorist attacks on French soil.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Marine Le Pen, FN Presidential Candidate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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However, the French people who plan to vote for Le Pen do not seem to take her reprehensible convictions into account. On immigration, she <\/span>declared<\/span><\/a> in 2012: \u201cWould you accept 12 illegal immigrants moving into your flat? You would not. On top of that, they start to remove the wallpaper. Some of them would steal your wallet and brutalize your wife. You would not accept that. Consequently, we are welcoming, but we decide with whom we want to be welcoming\u201d \u2013 comments she will actually deny later on with a <\/span>CNN journalist<\/span><\/a>. To \u201cget rid\u201d of migrants, <\/span>she suggests<\/span><\/a> to \u201cpush them back into international waters,\u201d where they can drown.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this respect, she takes after her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the previous leader of the FN, who is famous for his <\/span>racist remarks<\/span><\/a>, such that the gas chambers during the Holocaust were \u201ca minor detail of Second World War history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the same vein, Marine Le Pen <\/span>declared<\/span><\/a> last week: \u201cFrance was not responsible for the Vel D\u2019Hiv.\u201d The V\u00e9lodrome d’Hiver (or “V\u00e9l d’Hiv”) refers to the mass arrest by French policemen, in collaboration with the Nazis, of 13,152 Jews in Paris \u00a0(including more than 4,000 children) who were, for the most part, deported to Auschwitz. In other words, she denied France\u2019s role in the largest roundup and deportation of Jews during the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

While these recent statements have insulted the entire Jewish community, Le Pen\u2019s incendiary rhetoric mainly targets French Muslims who, according to her, are \u201cnot compatible\u201d with the French Republic. She maintains the belief to \u201cdefend and promote French cultural and historical heritage.\u201d During the most recent <\/span>presidential debate<\/span><\/a>, she also proposed that \u201cnativity cribs should be settled in each French city hall\u201d<\/span>. <\/span>\u00a0Pretty amusing for someone who is allegedly advocating for the preservation of a secular country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, it appears that she is in favor of what she calls the \u201cFrexit,\u201d that is the French exit of the Eurozone, following the UK\u2019s Brexit. Nevertheless, even though she fights against the European Union\u2019s grip on France, she does not seem to be bothered by using EU\u2019s money for her own benefit. Indeed, Le Pen has been accused of corruption for spending the European Parliament\u2019s funds for \u201cfake jobs,\u201d such as hiring one of her bodyguards as her parliamentary assistant. An investigation is ongoing but she has failed to appear in court.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, all we can do is wait for the coming Sunday to find out whether or not our French Donald Trump will reach the second round of the elections, as the <\/span>polls predict<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Agn\u00e8s Schaffauser,\u00a0a PhD student in the Department of French and Italian<\/span>\u00a0specializing in post-colonial literature and especially in Maghrebi literature. Her research interests also include gender studies and psychoanalysis. For her thesis, she will focus on clandestine immigration writings.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems, indeed, that the far right party in France is leading. The National Front (abbreviated \u201cFN\u201d for Front National in French) could possibly win the election after having lost in 2002 to Jacques Chirac. This is due to the fact that, in the last 15 years, France has become more conservative and protectionist, intensified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[239,247],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-elections","tag-france"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}