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“the leftists in the French National Assembly were republicans (every Jew decides for himself how to be holy) and the rightists monarchists (Hashem is King”
For the next 150 years in France, the leftists would emancipate and then defend Jews against anti-Semitic persecution. (Zola and Clemenceau, who defended Dreyfus, were leftists.) The rightists would persecute Jews such as Dreyfus and eventually turn Jews over to the Nazis during the Vichy regime.
During the decades after World War II the French left was pro-Israel — getting Israel the Dimona reactor and selling it combat aircraft, for example. De Gaulle was the symbol of the French right and he was an anti-Semite who tried to destroy Israel.
In recent decades the French right has dropped its anti-Semitism; Sarkozy actually had Jewish ancestry and was proud of it. Even Marine Le Pen has called out her father for HIS anti-Semitism. And Baruch HaShem the French left continues its outspoken support of Jews; there is a video on the internet of current Prime Minister Valls proclaiming to the National Assembly of France that “France without Jews is not France!”