Islamists and Anti-Israel Far-Left Emboldened After Defeat of Le Pen’s Party
In victory speech, Left bloc’s politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon pledges to recognize the “State of Palestine.”
While Liberals across the West are cheering the left-wing victory in the French parliamentary election, Sunday’s result will strengthen Islamist and anti-Israel forces in the heart of Europe.
Thousands of demonstrators waved Palestinian and red communist flags in central Paris to celebrate the strong showing by the left-wing New Popular Front.
Welcome to Francistine. Let's see how this works out. pic.twitter.com/pcR4A395oE
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) July 7, 2024
The NFP, an alliance of Communist, Green, and Socialist parties, won 182 seats, beating Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (NR) into third place with 143 seats. President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble bloc came second with 168 seats. No single alliance managed to get an absolute majority of 289 seats in the 650-member lower house of the parliament, raising the fear of a hung parliament.
Without securing seats for an absolute majority, the French left is confident of forming the next government with the likely support of Macron’s pro-EU lawmakers.
In his ‘victory’ speech, the leading figure of the left-wing alliance, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, pledged to recognize a ‘Palestinian state.’
“We will have a prime minister from the New Popular Front,” Mélenchon later wrote on Twitter/X. “We will be able to decide many things by decree. On the international level, we will have to agree to recognize the State of Palestine.”
France 2024.
The polls say right are winning: Commies and islamists riot.
The polls say the left is winning: Commies and islamists riot. pic.twitter.com/2ka3J7YFYa
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 7, 2024
With Mélenchon and his Marxist allies on the verge of power, France’s tiny and beleaguered Jewish minority fears for its future. The Times of Israel reported Monday:
[…] Sunday marked a triumph for Mélenchon, the leader of the far-left France Unbowed party, who has been accused of dog whistling, echoing antisemitic stereotypes and dismissing the threat of antisemitism.
Even as the French government has reported a surge in attacks on Jews — including more than 360 incidents in the first three months of 2024, a 300% increase from 2023 — Mélenchon called antisemitism in France “residual.”
The vote, and result, put many French Jews in an uncomfortable position. Political scientist Jean-Yves Camus said before the vote that he felt “trapped” by the far left, especially as the more moderate Socialists entered into a coalition with Mélenchon’s party. (The leader of France’s center-right party had likewise made waves by endorsing National Rally.)
“We are quite angry and disappointed,” Camus said. “As Jews, we feel betrayed and we think it would have been much better if the Socialist party had not entered into this kind of alliance with the far left.”
Many French Jews say that rhetoric from the far left has opened a door to antisemitism. According to a poll from the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in Europe, 92% of French Jews believe that France Unbowed has “contributed” to rising antisemitism.
Much like Germany and the United Kingdom, the surge in Antisemitism is fueled by mass-migration from Arab and Muslim-majority countries.
🔴Meir Habib (Jewish member of the French assembly) "I want to thank the Creator of the world and thank you for the tremendous support. Unfortunately, in view of the election results tonight, concern for the future of France is increasing. The extreme and anti-Semitic left has…
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) July 7, 2024
The victory for the French left will only contribute to the rising tide of imported Antisemitism. Ahead of Sunday’s vote, the NFP promised to open French shores to illegal immigrants coming from North Africa and the Middle East.
“French Left wants to welcome migrant boats and create special status for climate refugees,” The Telegraph (UK) reported last week. The European Left sees immigrants from failed third-world countries as potential allies in their ideological war on Western values and institutions.
Paris right now. #ElectionsLegislatives2024 pic.twitter.com/HAWKcr2W1E
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) July 7, 2024
The mainstream media and European political elites are apparently ‘relieved’ to see an alliance of Communists and radical leftists avert a right-wing victory in France.
“The NFP is made up of communists, greens, socialists and Melenchon’s far left France Unbowed,” Germany’s state-owned DW TV reported Monday. “As the EU’s second-largest economy and the bloc’s biggest military power, the uncertainty in France could have wider impacts, but some leaders in other European capitals were nevertheless relieved by Sunday’s results.”
The Paris Olympics start in a few days, but this is how the streets look after tonight's riots by left-wing migrants celebrating the defeat of Marine Le Pen's party
France deserves this for ignoring all the warning signs
pic.twitter.com/tUs6Vdqbc0— George (@BehizyTweets) July 8, 2024
National Rally leader, Marine Le Pen, remained defiant in the face of a disappointing election result, vowing to increase her party’s support base ahead of the French presidential election in 2027.
“The tide is rising. It did not rise high enough this time, but it continues to rise and, therefore, our victory is only delayed,” she said Sunday. “I have too much experience to be disappointed by a result where we double our number of deputies.”
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Yes, maybe I will watch the Olympics, but only for the riots.
Also, why are they rioting? They supposedly “won.”
Perhaps this is the new norm in Che Paris…..
Why do supporters of winning football teams in the USA riot, in some cities?
You should know better than to answer a question with a question full of fallacies, Millhouse.
The Left riots nearly 100% of the time. Now, it’s only going to get worse. Oh, and as for those sports riots: I’m willing to bet there is a lot of crossover between those and political riots, namely, Leftists who can’t help themselves because all they know is violence.
French sportball fanatics shout kill zee clowns and aloha snackbar and belong to a murderous cult.
A short tumbrel ride, and a brief visit with the sharp sister will, of course, remove the smarmy rhetorical smile off any clown’s lips.
Might be your worst comment ever and that’s saying a lot Milhouse. Sports celebrations even if they sometimes go over the top are not in the same galaxy as violent political riots that have the express purpose of destruction and intimidation.
“Celebrations”!? Is that what you call them? If so, why is this not also a “celebration”? How do you know what the purpose is? It’s certainly not the express purpose; you can’t find even one quote from a rioter or organizer saying so.
The fact is that we observe that some people like rioting. It’s got nothing to do with politics, they’ll burn stuff down for the sheer joy of it. Any excuse will do, including losing a football game, or winning one. So why would elections be any different?
At least in the USA, the rioters are not “leftists” in any meaningful sense; the only general description that applies is “black”, but it’s a specific urban black culture, and a white person raised in that culture would probably behave the same way.
So you missed all the recent Muzzie celebrations?
Huh? No, of course I didn’t. The question was why people are rioting when they won. I say it’s exactly the same thing as when people riot when their football team wins. When they lose they show their anger by wrecking and burning, and when they lose they “celebrate” in exactly the same way. In the summer when they’re hot and bored, any excuse will do. George Floyd, an election, an assassination, a win or a loss at some sport, it doesn’t take much, because the object isn’t the ostensible trigger, the object is sheer destruction, for the hell of it. And yes, the Moslem youth in the French banlieues show the same appetite for destruction as urban black youth do in America.
This is pretty fucking stupid, even for you Justice Milhouse 😂😂
Gooder and harder, France.
Gooder and harder.
This is very bad for ALL normal citizens, but from the constant refrain here one would think it’s a boutique issue primarily affecting the angst of intellectually conflicted Jews. Not a good look, and one that feeds into stereotypes.
I see your point Howard. But it definitely still needs to be rammed home how antisemitism is now mostly a left-wing phenomenon, though maybe not as much to most of the commenters here.
Does anyone watching these riots think that France will have a “happy” Olympic experience? Macaroon made a deal with the leftists to make sure LePen was blocked out. Well any moron could see what that outcome would be. Watch as the riots intensify because the communists don’t get what they want. Good Bye France, it’s been nice knowing you. FJB
Never forget that establishment “conservatives” will always side with communists against the interests of the nation.
Indeed. They see the plebes aw playthings just like the communists do.
The normies in France, the few remaining anyway, gonna have to buckle up. I really wonder how the arguments for devolution of existing Nation States into their constituent parts/regions will fare given the backdrop? For a brief period in the post cold war era those movements were gained steam. Separatist movements for Quebec, the Basques and so on. The Sunbelt Republic fad here seems intriguing.
French culture will be gone in France, and with all the Muslims Canada has been letting briefly continue in Quebec.
What I am driving at is the headlong rush by the elite/establishment towards this insistence on imposing an unworkable multicultural DEI occurring simultaneously in nearly every Western Nation may end up causing a split with normies demanding far more ‘home rule’ over immigration if not outright separation by various regions where the vast majority still wish to preserve their culture, language and traditions.
“Jean-Luc Mélenchon, pledged to recognize a ‘Palestinian state.”
France could become a dumping ground for all those obnoxious Muslims currently in Palestine. Maybe we can ship ours there?
If you look at a map, the entire France voted for LePen, but Paris
You may be confusing this latest election with the EU election.
True though she is mostly correct about Paris and the rest of France. In my own experience the areas outside of Paris are night and day different in terms of attitude and culture, though it has been a little over a dozen years since I was last in Europe and the Parisian mindset may have spread since.
You mean Paristine.
Globalist elites, and their useful idiots islamofascists.
Paris is burning.
“The European Left sees immigrants from failed third-world countries as potential allies in their ideological war on Western values and institutions.”
These are truly some of the most short-sighted, stupid people in the world if they don’t understand that the “European Left” is one of those “Western institutions” that will be brought down by the “immigrants from failed third-world countries.”
The Twitter commenter from a previous article had a salient observation: a nation with such a notorious history of swift and barely-opposed surrender should probably have never eagerly rolled out the red carpet for Muslim invaders.
I saw this morning that a German soccer superstar said that Germany is no longer safe to live in because of Muslim immigrants. Sound familiar? WTF is wrong with the judgment of liberals? Can they not look at where these people come from and see who they are? What is wrong with the women of the world who would embrace Islam? I think France and Germany are already lost and we are on the edge after the pro-Hamas anti-Semitic riots have been tolerated by so many liberals. They truly are a cancer wherever they go.
Because this is the left’s plan. Destroy the “colonialists right wing society.” The problem is they are too stupid to realize they will burn with it.
“WTF is wrong with the judgment of liberals? Can they not look at where these people come from and see who they are? What is wrong with the women of the world who would embrace Islam?”
It’s often entirely off the radar for an aficionado of the classic American spirit of self-sufficiency to remember that there really are human beings whose aspiration is to very little more than a life of comfortable servitude. Bread, circuses, and sluts. S&M parlors aren’t going bankrupt anytime soon soon due to a shortage of M’s. Couple that with the evolutionary biological quirk that predisposes one entire sex towards submissiveness, and the answer gets clearer.
(Biology does not CONTROL personality, but heavily affects it in large numbers. Just ask any Bad Boy about the chicks who dig them.)
Very good points. I keep going down the Internet rabbit hole (it’s damn near Africa hot here in lower Alabama so outside time is limited) to watch man on the street style Q/A and see a steady parade of ‘victimized’ folks whining. Most are bitching about their student loan or that their degree in fluffy bunny studies won’t pay the bills. They complain about minimum wage jobs in retail or food service instead of joining the military to pay their loans (the DoD has a recruiting offer for it) or go get into an apprenticeship program for a skilled trade. These ass clowns would rather complain than solve the issues. Granted the economy sucks and they face higher degree of challenges economically (median home v median income is crazy right now – can’t qualify for even a 20% down loan which is a big departure from previous generations and rent is astronomical).
true but not according to the msm
its the far right that is the naziantisemites
how long can they keep THAT lie going even with the inyourface proof
this is how it works
you import the trouble to help you gain your goals
then you send them to war so that then helps you eliminate those that you brought in
then you recreate your society again
Gee I thought it was Le Pen who was the antisemite, after all she is “far” right unlike those moderate communists.
Her father is an antisemite, and her party was openly antisemitic. She took it over, kicked her father out, and has put a major effort into reforming it, but there’s a good deal of understandable skepticism about how much of this is genuine and how much is just marketing and being careful not to say the quiet part aloud.
The same is true of the formerly neo-nazi AfD, which now claims not to be, but most people aren’t completely buying it.
Meloni’s formerly fascist party in Italy seems to have successfully convinced most people that that’s all truly behind it, and it’s now a party that decent people can support. Hence she is now Italy’s PM, and continues to demonstrate her non-fascism.
During WW-II my father was a squad leader in the 5th Infantry Rgt, 71st Infantry Division. His company liberated the last concentration camp in German hands; the Gunskirchen sub-camp of Matthausen KZL. I’m pretty sure that America is not coming again.
If you are Jewish, or a lover of freedom, get out of Europe now.
Subotai Bahadur
People whine, criticize, nitpick, and complain about FDR — but your post is a reminder that as it was occurring … the outcome of WWII was most definitely not a foregone conclusion.
It might seem that way after the fact but just compare to today, as you say: pretty sure America is not coming again.
Different leadership, different results.
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Gd bless your dad and family.
Assuming he’s elected, what will Trump do with Europe and NATO? I assume that these election results, along with those in the UK, will expedite the process of extracting the US from Europe. Pretty much ok with me, except to the extent we have actual, reliable allies. Not sure we do.
The stupidity along with the gutlessness of the French never amaze me.