Frances Far Right, Once Known for Anti Semitism, Courts Jews. The National Front has long been widely viewed in France as toxic, but by declaring itself a shield for French Jews, it may have found an effective way to allow many voters to justify breaking a taboo. That reflects a concept known as moral license. Framing the party as a champion of one minority enables voters to justify supporting its agenda in suppressing another. The result is not a more racially tolerant National Front, but rather a party that has found nearly unprecedented success in persuading mainstream voters many of whom may be quietly sympathetic to its anti immigrant agenda to embrace far right ideas once considered off limits. They are instrumentalizing us, said Jonathan Arfi, vice president of the Council of Jewish Institutions in France, which goes by the French acronym CRIF. We are a small minority, he said, but we have an important symbolic role to play. Becoming a Normal Party. Mr. Arfi can point to the precise month when the new age of anti Semitism began in France September 2. Palestinian intifada, or uprising. That brought about attacks on Jews in France, particularly those who lived in poorer neighborhoods on the outskirts of large cities areas that had gradually become dominated by Muslim immigrants from North Africa and their families. Since then, anti Semitic violence has remained high. But the French government and civil society were slow to respond to the attacks, Jewish leaders felt. For many years, Mr. Arfi said, politicians were in denial about the attacks, preferring to see them as an imported conflict rather than as resurgent French anti Semitism, although he was careful to note that the response had improved in recent years. It was uncomfortable for them to see that in France, the country of human rights, you had anti Semitism coming up again, said Simone Rodan Benzaquen, the director of the American Jewish Committees advocacy in Europe. That the attacks came from immigrant and Islamist communities, Ms. Rodan Benzaquen said, deepened that discomfort It requires admitting that a population that suffers racism also harbors it. The situation created an opportunity for the National Front. The anti Semitic attacks tracked with its narrative about the dangers of Muslim immigration Mainstream parties had allowed the Islamist threat to grow by refusing to admit it was happening, and only the National Front could undertake the harsh measures needed to solve the problem. It was also a way for the National Front to delegitimize charges of racism against Muslims, Mr. Arfi said. They are trying to say these people are committing anti Semitic attacks, so they cannot be victims of anything. Photo. Security outside a Jewish school in Paris in 2. Anti Semitic violence has been high in the city. Credit. Jeff J MitchellGetty Images Reading Between the LinesIn 2. Ms. Le Pen summarized her message to Frances Jews in an interview with the French magazine Valeurs Actuelles. Her party, she argued, is without a doubt the best shield to protect you against the one true enemy, Islamic fundamentalism. In early 2. For most of its history, the National Front served France as a protest party with little real political power. Le Pens father, JeanMarie Le Pen. An Introduction to the National Front LibLabCon destroying our Nation 1. National Debt, 10 million plus foreign invaders but we have too few. The France national rugby league team represent France in international rugby league tournaments. They are referred to as les Chanticleers or less commonly as les. The National Front leader wants closer relations between the U. S, France and Russia. The National Front has long been widely viewed in France as toxic, but by declaring itself a shield for French Jews, it may have found an effective way to. Nanterre, France CNNThe leader of Frances farright National Front party, Marine Le Pen, says the US election of Donald Trump shows that people are. The National Front French Front national, pronounced f na. FN is a rightwing populist and nationalist political party in France. Le Front populaire est une coalition de partis de gauche qui gouverna la France de mai 1936 avril 1938. Il runissait les trois principaux partis de la gauche. Union of French Jewish Patriots. It is not legally affiliated with the National Front, but was founded by Michel Thooris, a National Front city councilor in Carros and a member of the partys central committee. France Front National' title='France Front National' />Mr. Thooris said that he had made his peace with the National Fronts legacy of anti Semitism. There are anti Semitic personalities in the party, he said, but it happens in every political party. He had decided to support the party, Mr. Thooris said, because he believed it would offer protection from anti Semitic violence. Its the only political party that actually offers to fight against insecurity, the rise of radical Islamism, he said. Still, no mainstream Jewish organization in France has endorsed the National Front, whose support among Jewish voters remains relatively low. But the groups message may be about more than recruiting Jewish voters. By saying they will protect the Jews against anti Semitism, people understand that they mean they will be tough with the Muslims, Mr. Arfi said. Everything is between the lines. This message enabled Ms. Le Pen to retain the loyalty of the partys base, which remains drawn to anti Semitism, said Ccile Alduy, a Stanford University professor who studies the discourse of the French far right and has written a book about Ms. Le Pens speeches and language. When Ms. Le Pen attacks international finance or globalized money, she is referring to common tropes of anti Semitism, Ms. Alduy said. She doesnt need to say anything against the Jewish community, she said. Her rhetoric still nourishes and revitalizes these stereotypes. Its the best of both worlds in a way for the National Front, Ms. Alduy said. They dont have to play dirty because their audience understands them between the lines. Download Software Gratis 3Gp there. A Moral LicenseA more important reason for the National Fronts new stance on Jews may be its desire to attract mainstream voters who would otherwise consider it taboo to support the party. To understand how this works, experts say, it helps to think about an unexpected analogue the way people behave when they are trying to lose weight. People on diets will say things like Well, I was good yesterday, so I can cheat a little bit today, said Daniel A. Effron, a professor at London Business School who studies the psychology of moral behavior. Social psychologists call that a licensing strategy, meaning that once people convince themselves they are good, they can bend the rules in the future without losing that virtuous status. It turns out that people employ the same kind of licensing strategy in political decisions. In 2. 00. 8, Mr. Effron, with his colleagues Jessica S. Cameron and Benoit Monin, recruited subjects who had voted for Barack Obama and asked them to consider a hypothetical Imagine, they said, that you are a small town police chief who needs to hire a new officer for a department plagued by racial tensions. Should you hire the white candidate or the black one There was a twist. Half of the participants were first asked whom they supported in the presidential election, effectively getting a reminder and an opportunity to tell the research team that they had voted for Mr. Obama over Senator John Mc. Cain. People in that group were more likely to say that the police chief should hire the white officer than people who hadnt been reminded of their electoral choice. Remembering a vote for a black presidential candidate was the racial equivalent of a dieter remembering a day of salads. It made people feel as if they had nonprejudiced credentials, Mr. Effron said, and could therefore indulge their unspoken desire to privilege the hypothetical white candidate. Giving Permission. Ms. Le Pens emphasis on defending Jews while retaining the partys core message of fear and anger may have given potential supporters the same kind of nonprejudiced credentials that voting for Mr. Obama gave Mr. Effrons study subjects. This may have helped to overcome one of the European far rights greatest problems not that its message is unappealing evidence suggests anti Muslim and anti immigrant attitudes are quite prevalent but that voters feel uncomfortable openly embracing that message. By recasting the National Front as a vote in defense of Jews rather than a vote to suppress Muslim immigrants, Ms. Le Pen is giving mainstream voters a way to embrace racial supremacist politics without feeling racist. In order to convince the general public that times have changed and that the National Front is no longer taboo, Ms. Rodan Benzaquen joked that the party needs the kosher stamp. In the last few years, the party has won more support than nearly any other far right movement in Western Europe. Ms. Le Pen is tied for first in the presidential election polls, though she is projected to lose in a second round runoff.