French Far-right Leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, Antisemite and Holocaust Denier, Dies at 96

For decades, Israel refused to have any official ties with the French far right under Le Pen, an antisemitic politician who denied the Holocaust and said the gas chambers at Auschwitz were merely a ‘marginal detail’ in history

Jean-Marie Le Pen, an unabashed nationalist and founder of the French far-right National Front party, has died aged 96, French media said on Tuesday.

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