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April 26, 2022

Jews and Israel Should Cheer Emmanuel Macron’s Victory

Marine Le Pen toned down her rhetoric, but her vision is inimical to Jewish freedom.

In France’s runoff presidential election, held on Sunday, the incumbent Emmanuel Macron beat out the far-right Marine Le Pen. Le Pen has changed her party’s tone since taking the reins from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen—an anti-Semite who has dabbled in Holocaust denial and defended the Vichy regime. But Ariel Kandel, writing on the eve of the election, argued that she represents a danger to both French Jewry and the Jewish state:

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