In the following video, Marine Le Pen, the leader of Rassemblement National (National Rally, formerly Front National), discusses the recent increase of Jew-hatred in France, and the fact that it correlates precisely with the increase in the Muslim population.

She also points out what should have been obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention: the Jew-haters of the traditional far right consider her their enemy, presumably because she doesn’t blame the Jews for everything that’s wrong with France.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:04 The president of National Rally, Marine Le Pen, is our guest, Audrey Crespo Mara, good day.

00:08 Good day Marine Le Pen. —Good day. —Why are you refusing to participate

00:12 in the march today, a rally, of the National Union against anti-Semitism?

00:16 Well, Mme. Crespo Mara, because we weren’t invited. — So Olivier Faure [pol from New Left Group],

00:20 who came up with the idea for the rally, said that he didn’t want to sign the letter

00:23 with National Rally, but that you were welcome! —That’s what he said yesterday,

00:28 but, for three days he indicated in the clearest way possible

00:32 that we were excluded. I note incidentally that

00:36 the leaders of the political parties who did sign this call weren’t shocked to see

00:40 National Rally having been put aside in such a way.

00:44 So I don’t go where I am neither welcome nor desired.

00:48 That was the first thing. Second— Even if he tells you today that you’re welcome?

00:52 Second, I don’t want to participate in a political instrumentalization.

00:56 So are you scared, Marine Le Pen to join

01:00 this rally against anti-Semitism? Are you scared

01:04 of being received there in a bad way? —Well, perhaps, by a certain number of

01:08 tiny groups or militants from the Left.

01:12 Definitely; but this is not the subject. We took the decision

01:16 to pay respect, too,

01:20 at the end of today, to the victims of anti-Semitism,

01:24 because we consider that anti-Semitism is best described by its victims.

01:28 And it is they who are the most suited to talk about their hangmen. Because the real question

01:32 Today is: “where is this anti-Semitism coming from?” It’s the essential question.

01:36 And all the parties who will be marching together tonight have been

01:40 the one or the other [the Left and the Right] that have ruled during the last thirty years.

01:44 And they have allowed Islamist fundamentalism install itself [in France],

01:48 which is incontestably the origin

01:52 of anti-Semitism today, which caused more than eleven dead

01:57 Jews on our territory, our fellow countrymen fallen,

02:01 when confronted with those barbarians. However, we refuse

02:05 to point a finger at the true danger. And I think

02:09 that when you refuse to point out the true danger,

02:13 you don’t allow yourself the means to combat it. Do you see me, madame,

02:17 marching side by side with those who will march in order

02:21 to give themselves a clear conscience, and who tomorrow will continue

02:25 to accept, to welcome in their towns, imams who profess

02:29 Jew-hatred, who will continue to finance Salafist mosques,

02:33 who will continue to finance the cultural associations [which are]

02:37 front organizations for the Muslim Brotherhood —Marine Le Pen, could I ask you two questions…?

02:41 Muslim Brothers who are the origin, as you know, of the importation of this hatred

02:45 to our country. —Precisely. The president [Francis Kalifat] of CRIF [French Jewish org],

02:49 who has always refused to invite you to this famous annual dinner, which takes place tomorrow,

02:53 agrees with you in denouncing anti-Semitism linked to the

02:57 rise of Salafism. What he is accusing you of is not denouncing anti-Semitism

03:01 linked to the extreme right wing. What would you tell him?

03:05 But, but, I answer this gentlemen that I’ve always done it. But that one more time I’m

03:09 a political leader who is here to solve

03:13 the ills that afflict our fellow countrymen, and in this case our Jewish countrymen.

03:17 The extreme right-wing in France today, the anti-Semitic extreme right wing

03:21 in France, is a couple of tiny group whose number

03:25 of members is totally DERISORY. And again I agree with Mr…

03:29 Which you condemn, those groups? —But of course. Look, I’m their first victim, madame.

03:33 Those groups attack me every day. In their tweets,

03:37 in their writings. So there’s no difficulty there whatsoever.

03:42 But those who kill, those who persecute families

03:46 of the Jewish religion, which are forced to — and they are hundreds of families — to leave

03:50 a number of neighborhoods, because they cannot

03:54 live there safely any longer. Again, we know

03:58 who they are [the anti-Semites]. I’ve been denouncing this for the last thirteen years.

04:02 I said it the first time thirteen years ago. I said that in certain neighborhoods in France

04:05 it’s not good to be Jewish, female, homosexual, and sometimes even to be simply French.

04:14 Well, today, these policies that were introduced and which

04:18 caused this situation are the responsibility of the political parties

04:22 that will be marching tonight. I wish today

04:26 to explain to the French people that they [the politicians] need to realize

04:30 the gravity of the situation; not the French people, but the political leaders.