France National Front rift widens in 'anti-Semitism' row

The founder of France's far-right National Front (FN) party has hit out at his daughter, the current leader, as a rift widens over a remark he made, which was condemned as anti-Semitic.

Jean-Marie Le Pen said he was "very hurt" after Marine Le Pen denounced what she called a "political error".

It comes after Mr Le Pen pledged in a video to make an "oven load" of his critics - including a Jewish singer.

The FN finished top in France in last month's European Parliament elections.

Correspondents say Marine Le Pen is trying to rid her party of its racist reputation as she looks for allies in the European Parliament.

The FN's website has stopped hosting a video blog produced by Mr Le Pen, amid outrage over his use of the word "fournee" - meaning "an oven batch of loaves" in a controversial video interview.

He made the comment when talking about French singer Patrick Bruel, who is Jewish.

Mr Le Pen - currently honorary president of the FN - has previous convictions for inciting racial hatred.

He was fined 1.2m francs (183,200 euros; £149,000) after calling the Nazi gas chambers "just a detail in the history of World War II" in 1996.

Later he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity as an MEP and fined in Germany for a similar comment judged to have minimised the Holocaust.

Critics see the statement about Bruel as a reference to Nazi death camp ovens in which Jews and other victims were cremated.

The video was taken off the FN's website and Ms Le Pen rebuked her father - the first time she has done so in public.

She said she was convinced his words had been maliciously misinterpreted but it was "a political mistake" for him not to have anticipated this happening.
'Stabbed in the back'

Mr Le Pen said there had been "no courtesy" in the handling of the affair in comments to French media on Tuesday.

"I can take direct hits to the face but not cowardly ones in the back," he said.

He told French magazine Inrocks he had been "stabbed in the back" and told French radio station RTL that no-one could withhold his freedom of expression.

"I have no intention of changing my attitude," he said.

He has previously argued that he did not know Bruel was Jewish.

The row comes at an important moment for Ms Le Pen, who lives in her father's mansion and whose party still depends on his funding, says the BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris.

She is currently negotiating with other hardline leaders with the aim of forming a political group that will have more influence in the EU.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27786901

Yep, he's saying what they really think and she is desperately trying to cover it up.

"Oven load". OMG. And no actual moral regret from the daughter - she's just sorry about it being a tactical error.

Nail - head Lovey, that is exactly right!

 

LIKE that old Greek painting of a snake eating it's own tail, isn't it...

Couldn't write a better ending for a fascist group if you tried..

MOST personality-centric political and terrorist groups eventually seem to implode and self-destruct like this, if people can be bothered looking back through history.  

The thing that strikes me about - is it the Ouroboros (sp?)? - is its eternality. It can carry on imploding forever.

vote NF folks

oh wait they already did  ::sexbnan: 

smelly_bandit wrote:vote NF folks

oh wait they already did  ::sexbnan: 

A political party broadcasting a "joke" about the slaughter of Jewish people doesn't trouble you, no?

lovedust wrote:

smelly_bandit wrote:vote NF folks

oh wait they already did  ::sexbnan: 

A political party broadcasting a "joke" about the  slaughter of Jewish people doesn't trouble you, no?

That wouldn't bother Smelly. It really wouldn't.

Sassy wrote:

lovedust wrote:

A political party broadcasting a "joke" about the  slaughter of Jewish people doesn't trouble you, no?

That wouldn't bother Smelly. It really wouldn't.

So much for his crusade against Islam being based in his purported desire to "save innocent lives". He couldn't care less about them.

lovedust wrote:

Sassy wrote:

That wouldn't bother Smelly.   It really wouldn't.

So much for his crusade against Islam being based in his purported desire to "save innocent lives". He couldn't care less about them.

I doubt there is anyone Smelly cares about. Then again, I doubt anyone cares about him.

lovedust wrote:

Sassy wrote:
That wouldn't bother Smelly.   It really wouldn't.

So much for his crusade against Islam being based in his purported desire to "save innocent lives". He couldn't care less about them.

 
  TOO TRUE, Love...

THE only thing that seems to seriously concern the smellybumbandit is that nobody around here takes him seriously anymore, apart from B'Andy, nicko, Tommy, eddie, Tess', Drinky ~ the usual suspects..

Smelly's fantasmagorical lifestory:
His ultra-successful multimillion dollar business;
Super mansion out in a dress circle suburb;
A couple of flash cars sitting out in the drive (just a pity that smelly' can't drive, isn't it !);
A loving family inside, a sexy wifey and a couple of perfect kids;
This year he's even added a never-mentioned-before imaginary stint in the military to keep onside with Tommy, nicko and L'ilAndy !
And all of this achieved before his 17th birthday..  

SMELLY'S repetitive desires to help save the victims from the onslaughts of his numerous Islamic insurgents, has about as much credence as his above Second Life 'back story'..   FUNNY how he never concerns himself with self-declared Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, fascist, neo-nazi or anarchist terrorist groups out there, isn't it ?!?

ACCORDING to 'The World According to Smelly'" ~ where all terrorists are Muslim, says he ! ~ except those that are 'liberal-socialist-commie Marxist' left-wingers.. Any others shouldn't really be called "terrorists" in smelly's self-centric parallel universe, with their own form of doublespeak.    

lovedust wrote:

smelly_bandit wrote:vote NF folks

oh wait they already did  ::sexbnan: 

A political party broadcasting a "joke" about the  slaughter of Jewish people doesn't trouble you, no?

dead people rarely worry me

im more concerned about what is happening in the UK to the living people to be honest

smelly_bandit wrote:vote NF folks

oh wait they already did  ::sexbnan: 

You got chased out of SA didn't you smelly ?  

smelly_bandit wrote:

lovedust wrote:
A political party broadcasting a "joke" about the  slaughter of Jewish people doesn't trouble you, no?

dead people rarely worry me

im more concerned about what is happening in the UK to the living people to be honest

  

... and, just as long as those "living people" have the same skin colour and political beliefs as our good ol' smelly' the albino !