Social networks had an impact on the European and parliamentary elections, as the various polls and staggering statistics showed. Much less present on social networks and very divided, the New Popular Front has nevertheless managed to turn digital tools into a strike force capable of competing with Jordan Bardella, who has become almost an influencer on young people’s favourite applications. A winning bet.
Despite a deceptive victory in the 2nd round of the parliamentary elections, the campaign of the New Popular Front (NFP) was undermined by the excesses of Mélenchonism – a veritable scarecrow capable of scaring off secularists, universalists and social democrats – and weighed down by the purge carried out within LFI against dissident MPs who dared to challenge Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s divisive strategy.
This is a logbook of an election campaign consumed by the divisions and infighting that prevented the NFP from obtaining an absolute majority, despite the impressive momentum generated by the hope of a united left capable of forming the basis of a republican alternative to the perils of the far right…
As part of its “de-demonisation” strategy, the National Rally is doing everything it can to distance itself from the fascist and anti-Semitic past of the National Front and its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen. So much so that the RN not only claims to be contributing to the fight against anti-Semitism but is now posing as the ultimate “protector of the Jews”, a label accorded to it by eminent figures including the famous Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld.
And yet, despite all the efforts made to banish natural anti-Semitism from its ranks, it is back at full gallop! Witness the many infamous anti-Semitic statements made by RN candidates who have qualified for the 2nd round of the current legislative elections.
The “France, what have you done with your left?” launched by Jean-François Kahn in his latest pamphlet is being followed this strange summer by a new concern. “France, what have you done with your sense of moderation and Cartesian reason?” we might ask ourselves as we gaze up at the uncertain skies in the wake of a legislative election that saw the tumult of passions and radicalism prevail over consensus and restraint…
Pierre-André Taguieff is a philosopher and historian of ideas, director of research at the CNRS, and the author of an abundant body of work*. When, how and why did the concept of “Jew-capitalism” come into being? This figure of the main enemy of revolutionaries – socialists, anarchists, communists – is at the heart of the first form of modern Judeophobia on the left. From Charles Fourier to Karl Marx, the amalgam between Jews and “speculators”, “international bankers” or “international finance” remains the founding act of anti-Semitic hatred in the political field in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
Since the Dreyfus Affair, left-wing movements have been perceived as Judeophilic, despite historical anti-Semitism dating back to the 19th century, which saw the left confuse Judeophobia with anti-capitalism. And since the Nazi horror, anti-Semitism has been relegated to the far right. Except that the decolonial and indigenist excesses of wokism are in the process of giving rise to a left-wing neo-anti-Semitism that has nothing to envy the abjectness of fascist currents on the far right.
The PS/Place Publique candidate won over Macron voters disappointed by the president’s right-wing approach, as well as Mélenchon voters frightened by the radicalisation of the Insoumis. Just when you thought the PS was dead and buried, a large space is opening up for the social-democratic and secular left in the run-up to the 2027 presidential election.
Even if it is only the scum of a phenomenon that is difficult to quantify, Jewish and Arab personalities believe that the far right has mutated and no longer hesitate to join it. Analysis.
A group of researchers from the Emirati Trends Research & Advisory center, the University of Montreal and ”Pluriel”, the university research platform on Islam based in Lyon, have been collaborating since 2021 to produce the first academic index capable of measure the global influence of the Muslim Brotherhood. They have just released their first report covering the period 2022/2023. Exclusive extracts.
For decades, numerous books have denounced the dangerous nature of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, until 2011 and the Arab Spring, very little was known about their ability to manage countries. In Cairo, as in Tunis, when they came to power, it only took them a few months, if not a few weeks, to reveal their incredible incompetence. “To rise in the hierarchy of the Brotherhood, you have to obey and, above all, not think. As a result, it’s not the most intelligent who have come to power”, notes sociologist Sarah Ben Néfissa, co-author with Pierre Vermeren of the book “Les Frères musulmans à l’épreuve du pouvoir”1.
