Posted on 09/15/2014 2:59:11 PM PDT by Thistooshallpass9
The number of Jews who voted for the far-right National Front party soared in the most recent presidential election from the previous two votes, surveys showed. In the surveys of French Jews, some 13.5 percent of 1,095 respondents who self-identified as Jews said they voted for National Front President Marine Le Pen in the 2012 presidential elections. Asked about the two previous presidential elections, from 2002 and 2007, respectively only 6.1 percent and 4.3 percent of Jewish voters polled said they chose the National Front candidate — Le Pen’s father and predecessor as party leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has a history of convictions for “inciting racial hatred” and Holocaust denial.
Read more: http://www.jta.org/2014/09/14/news-opinion/world/far-right-french-party-sees-sharp-rise-in-popularity-among-jewish-voters-surveys-find#ixzz3DQ7EsDY1
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