Marine Le Pen slams Mélenchon's Jewish name mockery as worse than her father's remarks

In response to Jean-Luc Mélenchon's recent mockery of Jewish names like those of Raphaël Glucksmann and Jeffrey Epstein, Marine Le Pen accused him on RTL of antisemitic provocation and highlighted media double standards favoring the left over the National Rally. The Socialist Party labeled the remarks antisemitic.

Following Jean-Luc Mélenchon's controversial jokes about pronouncing Raphaël Glucksmann's and Jeffrey Epstein's names—detailed in prior coverage—Marine Le Pen, leader of the RN deputies, denounced the remarks on RTL on March 4, 2026. She deemed them 'bien pires que ce qui a pu être reproché' to her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, citing his past slips like the 'détail de l’Histoire' on the Shoah and the 'Durafour crématoire' pun.

Le Pen accused Mélenchon of 'provocation électoraliste qui vise à manier l’antisémitisme pour essayer de mobiliser l’électorat antisémite'. This echoes a PS national bureau statement from the previous Tuesday condemning Mélenchon's 'caricatures complotistes et propos antisémites'. Glucksmann, the targeted social-democratic MEP of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, called Mélenchon the 'Jean-Marie Le Pen de notre époque', a 'mélange de trublion et de clown jouant avec les pires codes de l’extrême droite française et de l’antisémitisme'. Mélenchon later apologized, expressing regret for hurting Glucksmann.

Le Pen highlighted unequal treatment: 'Si quelqu’un du RN avait dit ce qu’a dit Jean-Luc Mélenchon, ça aurait fait la une des journaux télévisés, des journaux papier, ça aurait engendré des manifestations dans la rue. Là, ce n’est pas le cas, parce que c’est quand même un mec de gauche'. She aligned with Jordan Bardella's push for a 'cordon sanitaire' around La France insoumise, especially amid alleged LFI links to the death of far-right militant Quentin Deranque, recalling the 2024 legislative election withdrawals against RN.

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