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Zemmour, the ‘useful Jew’ leading far-right push for power in France

By Shirli Sitbon

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French far-right media pundit Eric Zemmour (C) gestures as he arrives for the promotion launch event of his new book "France hasn't said its last word" (La France na pas dit son dernier mot) in Nice, southeastern France, on September 18, 2021. - French far-right pundit Eric Zemmour is inching closer to announcing a run for the presidency, a move that would create fresh uncertainty around France's 2022 election race. (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP) (Photo by VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

A Franco-Israeli woman raises a placard during a rally on April 25, 2021, in front of the French Embassy in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, after the killer of a Jewish woman in Paris in 2017, avoided being tried on the grounds he acted in delirium due to drug-taking. The writing on the placard reads: "J'accuse or I accuse, in reference to the title of a 1898 article by French writer Emile Zola regarding the Dreyfus affair. - Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman, died in 2017 after being pushed out of the window of her Paris flat by neighbour Traore, 27, who shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic). Traore, a heavy cannabis smoker, has been in psychiatric care since Halimi's death and he remains there after the ruling. The court said he committed the killing after succumbing to a "delirious fit" and was thus not responsible for his actions. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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