Born a little more than 50 years ago, the party was founded by Jean ... aspects to Le Pen’s undertaking seemed deeper, most importantly purging the party’s association with antisemitism.

“Antisemitism is the socialism of fools ... Last year, he opined that Jean-Marie Le Pen — the party’s founder who insisted that the Shoah was a “detail of history” — was not ...

Ms. Le Pen, 56, became the face of France’s far right after taking over the party in 2011 from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen ... rejecting her father’s antisemitism — he was convicted ...

Bardella has positioned himself strongly to run as the party’s candidate (should it choose him) for the 2027 presidential elections.

from her father Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011 and set about de-toxifying its image with voters. Her father, who died in January, was often accused of making racist and anti-Semitic comments. During the ...

PARIS (AP) — For years, Marine Le Pen stood at the gates of power — poised, relentless and rising. She stripped the French far right of its old symbols, sanded down its roughest edges and built in its ...

MARINE Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzlement and banned from running for office – crushing her ambition to become the ...

“It’s clear that today’s RN is not yesterday’s National Front, with Jean-Marie Le Pen’s anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying rubbish hammered home every three months or so,” Knobel said.

National Rally was a 2018 rebranding of the National Front, which was founded in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen together with wartime Nazi collaborators and veterans of France’s colonial disasters in ...

Stirring controversy even before its official start, this week's International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem made headlines long before it took place.

A generation ago, it would have been unthinkable: the leader of France’s far-right party – an organization infamously founded by Nazis – invited to speak at an Israeli antisemitism conference.