If nothing else, Zemmour’s ascendance has left Marine Le Pen gasping for electoral oxygen. In an interview with Boulevard Voltaire, Zemmour suggested that Le Pen had foundered because she failed to see that whenever he spoke, civilization itself was at issue and thus at stake. Madame Le Pen acquired a stricken look. And no wonder. She had for years made every effort to purge her party, le Rassemblement National, of the least trace of anti-Semitism.5 Her commitment to Israel was said to be profound. That she now found herself outflanked by a French-born Algerian Jew may well have persuaded her to reconsider the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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