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Macron’s cynical ploy
This weekend’s march in Paris ‘against anti-semitism’ is a divisive smokescreen to allow the president to pose as a unifying force, while pushing forward a new more restrictive immigration policy against Muslims, writes DENNIS BROE
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a meeting with officials from Western and Arab nations, the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023

THIS Sunday there will be a “protest” march in Paris organised by Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance Party that is supposedly about contesting anti-semitism in the country.

Would that it were true. 

Instead, the march is a cynical ploy by the politician to drive a wedge between his minority party and its two chief challengers, the left-wing LFI or France Unbowed and the hard-right, fascist and historically anti-semitic National Rally (RN). 

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