(Politico) The left’s antisemitism problem has taken center-stage in France.
The summer jamborees of the French Green party and the hard left were supposed to be opportunities to discuss climate change, wealth inequalities and next year’s European elections in a festive, holiday vibe.
Instead the meetings have been overshadowed by a spat over a rapper’s alleged pun about the Holocaust that now threatens [to] drive a wedge between the parties in the Nupes coalition of the hard left and Greens, which is leading polls in France.
The French left’s troubles with antisemitism are more subtle than those on the far-right — former National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen both played down the Holocaust and defended France’s collaborationist Vichy regime in World War II — but they are still palpable, and stand to further deepen political rifts that have been brewing for months.
