Far-right

The crisis of American Jewry after October 7, the collapse of old assumptions - opinion

The October 7 massacre exposed weaknesses in American Jewish institutions and identity.

STUDENTS ATTEND a pro-Palestinian protest outside Columbia University in New York City on the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel last month.
THE MAIN rehearsal of the 78th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem.

Independence Day and the new reality - opinion

Right-wing activist Mordechai David arrives for questioning at a police station in Tel Aviv, in central Israel, on February 1, 2026.

'Who is the baby-killer, coward?' Far-right activist confronts Yair Golan after left-wing protest

President of the Rassemblement National parliamentary group, Marine Le Pen, attends a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament, in Paris on April 14, 2026.

Israeli ambassador meets with France’s Marine Le Pen, extending outreach to Europe’s far-right


Hitler-glorifying far-right extremist jailed on terrorism charges in northern England

Colin McNeil's websites reportedly inspired 18-year-old Payton Gendron to murder 10 people in a mass shooting at a grocery shop in the United States in 2022.

A gavel and a block is pictured on the judge's bench in this illustration picture taken in the Sussex County Court of Chancery in Georgetown, Delaware, U.S., June 9, 2021.

Among pro-Israel conservatives, isolation and antisemitism on the far-right raises concerns

The rise of Republican far right-wingers who spurn decades of pro-Israel orthodoxies, favoring isolationism and resurrecting anti-Jewish tropes, is alarming pro-Israel evangelicals and Jewish allies.

 Pastor John Hagee addresses a conference of Christians United for Israel, National Harbor, Maryland,  June 29, 2024.

France's identity crisis: Divisions and political fractures threaten stability - comment

France faces deep societal divisions over immigration and identity, with far-left and far-right factions gaining in recent elections, posing challenges to unity and stability.

 Marine Le Pen, President of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group. Paris, France, June 2, 2024.

French PM Attal to resign following left-wing alliance triumph at elections

Marine Le Pen's National Rally party underperformed in the French parliamentary elections, while the left-wing alliance became the largest faction, leading to the Prime Minister's resignation.

 Gabriel Attal, French Prime Minister and French presidential majority group "Ensemble pour la Republique" candidate, arrives to deliver a speech after partial results in the second round of the early French parliamentary elections, at Hotel Matignon in Paris in Paris, France, July 7, 2024.

UN rights chief warns about rise of far-right in Europe

Turk blamed the rise of populist, extremist politics on the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, including rising living costs, that have "disenfranchised a large segment of the population."

 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk holds a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela January 28, 2023

Success of German far-right party in EU election has many Jews hearing echoes of Nazi past

In Sunday’s election, the AfD came in second to Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union and its more conservative Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union.

 Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, co-leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany political party, celebrate at the AfD election evening gathering following the release of initial election results in European parliamentary elections in Berlin, June 9.

French conservative leader embraces Marine Le Pen’s far-right party with history of antisemitism

Even as Marine Le Pen has publicly denounced antisemitism, her supporters still disproportionately harbor antisemitic attitudes.

President of the French conservative party Les Republicains and member of Parliament Eric Ciotti and far-right National Rally president Marine Le Pen attend a session of the National Assembly in Paris, April 4, 2023.

Israeli minister addresses convention hosted by Spanish far-right party with neo-Nazi ties

In Spain, Vox is controversial both for its platform, which includes restricting abortion access and domestic violence laws and shuttering the ministry of equality, and for a history of neo-Nazis.

 Israeli minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks at a Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2023.

German far-right lawmaker goes on trial charged with using Nazi slogan

Bjoern Hoecke, head of the AfD in the eastern state of Thuringia, which holds an election in September, is part of the nationalist wing of the AfD.

 German far-right politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Bjoern Hoecke looks on in the courtroom on the day of his trial over the alleged use of Nazi vocabulary during a speech in May 2021, at the regional court in the major city of Halle, Germany April 18, 2024.

Scholz evokes Nazi era as he urges Germans to reject far right

Hundreds of thousands of people protested across Germany against the AfD after a report that two senior party members had discussed plans for mass deportation of citizens with foreign backgrounds.

 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talks with citizens during an event in Magdeburg, Germany, August 25, 2022.