French far right's Jordan Bardella denies alleged 2013 anti-Semitic comments

French investigative website on Monday alleged in a report that far-right National Rally (RN) leader Jordan Bardella made anti-Semitic comments in writing in 2013, but the close ally of presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen denied the claims as "blatant falsehoods". According to Mediapart, Bardella wrote, among other comments, in a chat: "The Jew has to dominate other peoples, crush them, and rob them; a Zionist is necessarily a Jew, and fundamentally so." Bardella, 31, tipped to be prime minister if Le Pen becomes France's president, wrote on X he "formally" rejected the allegations and would take legal action against Mediapart. Mediapart's investigation is built on comments in private chats allegedly written by Bardella in the summer of 2013 when he was 17 or 18 years old, which Mediapart maintains it authenticated. Read moreMarine Le Pen returns: The rise and pause of Jordan Bardella The young activist, who had joined the far-right party then known as the National Front (FN) a year and a half earlier, allegedly also said: "And that is what they want: a New World Order dominated by Israel, with Jerusalem as the capital, of course." Le Pen herself told reporters she believed the ...