"Not Europe"
The present swing to the right has been engineered by playing on innate Xenophobia, largely aimed at Muslims
The problem, of course, is that once the extremists get a toe-hold, their extremism has no particular sectarian or racial barriers - anybody whose face doesn't fit
Not counting Farrago, the extremist right (no dispute that all this shit is right-wing generated, though Mm Le Penn is insisting that they are "radical" and not extremist) has made significant gains in 12 European countries.
She is now ferreting away trying to unite those groupings into a single entity - good days ahead, if she does.
Jim Carroll
This from today's Sunday Times, from European Belgium.
FEARFUL JEWS BEGIN EXODUS FROM EUROPE
The Brussels killings are an extreme example of anti-semitism driving thousands to Israel, the UK and US
Sojan Pancevski BRUSSELS Inna Lazareva TEL AVIV

DELPHINE ANKAOUA never dreamt she would feel com¬pelled to leave her chic home in the leafy Neuilly-sur-Seine suburb of Paris.
But when her neighbours of 10 years asked Ankaoua to remove the mezuzah, a small box containing a piece of Jewish religious text, from the front door of her flat, she and her family decided it was time to leave the country — and move to Israel.
"We were absolutely shocked," said Ankaoua, 39, who had long encouraged her sons to wear baseball caps over their kippas (skull caps) to disguise their origins. "We tried phoning an organisation that helps Jews combat anti-semitism, and they told us just to take off the mezuzah."
Any doubts about her decision were dispelled two weeks before Ankaoua and her husband were due to leave when their seven-year-old son was told he could not play in the garden because he was Jewish.
"At that point I just said: 'Merci, la France! Au revoir!'," she said. "It made it so much easier for me to say goodbye to my country."
From her new home in Jerusalem, Ankaoua works for the Israeli government, helping other European Jews driven to emigrate by what they perceive as an increasingly hostile atmosphere.
The extreme form such hostility can take was high¬lighted by last weekend's killings of four visitors and staff of the Jewish Museum in Brussels in an apparent Antisemitic attack
Despite an international outcry, the Belgian police have yet to catch the perpetrator.
Figures compiled by the Israeli government say the exodus is most pronounced from France, home to more than 500,000 Jews, and Belgium, which has a 42,000-strong Jewish commu¬nity. The number of French Jews moving to Israel doubled to 3,374 in 2013, after the killing in Toulouse the previous year by a French-Algerian anti-Semite of seven people, including three stu¬dents at a Jewish school.
This year it could hit 5,000: by the end of April, 1,499 had already made the journey.
The secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress, Serge Cwajgenbaum, said many more were moving to Britain, America and Canada. "Jews are questioning their future not only in France but in Europe at large because they fear for their safety."
The EU's racism watchdog found France, Belgium and Hungary were the worst countries in terms of perceived anti-semitism, according to a study conducted among Jewish minorities.
Nearly half the respondents expressed concern about falling victim to verbal attacks, while more than 33% feared physical assault. A quarter said they avoided Jewish sites or events because they felt unsafe.
A surge in support for far-right parties in elections to the European parliament, such as the National Front in France, has added to concerns.
"When openly anti-semitic, neo-Nazi political parties gained a foothold in national parliaments and regional councils, and now in the European Parliament itself, more alarm bells should be raised", wrote David Harris, director of pressure group, the America Jewish Committee.