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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Jessica Phelan with RFI

Antisemitism becomes a political football in France's election campaign

Protesters hold placards reading "You're used to antisemitism? Not us", at a rally against discrimination in Paris on 19 June 2024. © AFP - ALAIN JOCARD

France's parliamentary elections are pitting the far-right National Rally, which counts a convicted Holocaust denier and a former Nazi paramilitary among its founding members, against left-wing parties – themselves accused of antisemitism after an equivocal response to the war between Hamas and Israel. With all sides quick to condemn the others, anti-discrimination activists fear parties are more interested in using the problem as a political football than tackling it.

Every faction has something to say to France's Jewish voters in this month's snap election campaign, but that doesn't necessarily make it any clearer to know who to back.

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