ABSTRACT
Antisemitism is certainly one of the elements of the French radical-right discourses which has undergone the most dramatic reshaping since World War II. It is widely acknowledged that it has receded from being a mainstream political argument prominent at the end of the 19th century and during the Vichyist era to a form of prejudice today that is vigorously combated by public policies and civil society organizations. A central dimension of prewar fascist discourses, it was gradually banned from public discourses following the delegitimization of racialized fascist discourses after the war and the increased legal prohibition of antisemitic and negationist discourses. 1 Because of these transformations in the political and legal environment of the radical right, blaming the Jews shifted from being the main explanation of the problems experienced by French society to a peripheral element of discourses usually formulated in a covert fashion, from exoteric to esoteric.
