Jan 7, 2025 · A polarizing figure in French politics, Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence.

Jan 8, 2025 · Jean-Marie Le Pen was an antisemite, a fascist, a racist, and a thug. Over decades in French politics he encouraged the pernicious idea that Jews aren’t “really” French, that Jews secretly control world politics, and that Nazis were the true heroes of World War II.

Jan 7, 2025 · Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right French leader who espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric and was convicted of Holocaust denial, has died at 96. His death was announced on social media by...

Jan 8, 2025 · But this came alongside allegations of racism, xenophobia and, particularly, antisemitism. On several occasions, Le pen’s remarks were legally ruled to be Holocaust denial, including when he...

1 day ago · The tomb housing the remains of Jean-Marie Le Pen has been vandalized less than three weeks after the polarizing French far-right leader was buried. ... He repeatedly denied the Holocaust and was convicted multiple times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. He made Islam and Muslim immigrants his primary targets ...

Jan 7, 2025 · For decades, Israel refused to have any official ties with the French far right under Le Pen, an antisemitic politician who denied the Holocaust and said the gas chambers at Auschwitz were merely a 'marginal detail' in history

Jan 7, 2025 · The founder of the far-right Front National, who died on Tuesday, January 7, at the age of 96, frequently made racist and anti-Semitic comments. Even his daughter Marine sought to dissociate ...

Sep 1, 2021 · The 93-year-old founder of France's main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, goes on trial Wednesday over allegations of once again inciting racial hatred, this time with comments targeting...

Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (20 June 1928 – 7 January 2025), commonly known as Jean-Marie Le Pen (French: [ʒɑ̃maʁi lə pɛn]), was a French far-right politician. He founded the far-right National Front (now National Rally) party and served as the party's president from 1972 to 2011 and as its honorary president from 2011 to 2015.. He focused on issues related to …

Jan 11, 2025 · She sought to make the party more mainstream, trying to remove the stigma of racism and antisemitism that clung to the party under her father. Jean-Marie Le Pen was expelled from the National Front due to i ncreasingly shocking statements.