After accusations, Bardella “categorically denies” anti-Semitic comments

O leader of the French extreme right, Jordan Bardella, rejected, this Monday, a report from the Mediapart investigative site that claimed that he would have made anti-Semitic comments on private messages about a decade ago. He also considered the charges as “gross inventions”.

At work Mediapart claims to have independently obtained and verified messages exchanges in which Bardella said that “the Jew must dominate other people, crush them and steal them” and that “all banks were held by Jews”.

“ This is what they want, a New World Order dominated by Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, of course”, would have been another comment.

The alleged claims were made in the summer of 2013, when the leader of the far right was between 17 and 18 years old, shortly after joining the NB.

“ At a time when the victory of our ideas has never been this close, an activist press fence is ready to orchestrate defamatory operations to destabilize the presidential campaign and attack my honor,” said Bardella, quoted by Politico.

On social network X wrote: “I categorically deny the accusations made against me by Mediapart, who attributes to me delusional and anti-Semitic statements I supposedly made when I was a minor. These are, of course, gross inventions”. He also stated that he instructed the lawyer to carry out “all necessary procedures” against the site.

Je conteste formellament les acustions portées à mon endroit par Mediapart, me prêtant des propos délirants et antisemites que j’aurals pretendument tenus alors que j’étals mineur. Il s’agit evidence de faux grossiers.

A moment où la victoire de nos idés n’a été..

— Jordan Bardella (@J Bardella) September 28, 2026

The investigation arises when Bardella's party, the National Regrouping (NR), whose presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is leading the polls for next year's elections, has been trying to clear his racist image and approach Israel.

Bardella, 31 years old, became the face of the effort of a decade of the NB to normalize the image. He was the party's de facto presidential candidate until July, when a court authorized Le Pen to run for president and will be the French Prime Minister if the candidate wins the elections.

Le Pen also reacted, considering the report as “insana” and “can only be false”.

Remember that the party that preceded the current National Regrouping, the National Front, was founded in part by Nazi sympathizers. Le Pen's father and former leader of the Jean-Marie Le Pen party was condemned more than once for hate speech for minimizing the Holocaust.

Marine Le Pen has spent the last few years trying to get rid of the party's most extremist elements and keep him away from anti-Semitism charges since he took over in 2011, and even got his own father expelled in 2015.