{
  "id": 10488852,
  "title": "France's Bardella denies alleged antisemitic comments",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/frances-bardella-denies-alleged-antisemitic-comments",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-28T16:54:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "RTE News",
    "slug": "rte-news",
    "url": "https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593261-bardella-antisemitic-comments/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "French far-right leader Jordan Bardella has denied allegations of making antisemitic comments, according to Mediapart, a French investigative website. The report claims Bardella wrote antisemitic remarks in 2013, including claims that Jews dominate other people and that a Zionist is necessarily a Jew. However, Bardella dismissed the allegations as \"crude forgeries\" and said he would take legal action against Mediapart. The investigation is based on comments in private chats allegedly written by Bardella when he was 17 or 18 years old. The full story can be found in the Mediapart report.",
  "summary": "A French investigative website has alleged that far-right National Rally leader Jordan Bardella made antisemitic comments in writing in 2013, but the close ally of presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen dismissed the claims as fake",
  "key_points": [
    "French far-right leader Jordan Bardella denies antisemitic comment allegations.",
    "Bardella claims 2013 remarks were crude forgeries.",
    "Investigation based on private chat comments from Bardella's teenage years."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "France 24",
        "title": "French far right's Jordan Bardella denies alleged 2013 anti-Semitic comments",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/french-far-rights-jordan-bardella-denies-alleged-2013-anti-semitic",
        "published": "2026-09-28T14:45:44.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Le Monde English",
        "title": "Bardella denies report of antisemitic messages",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/bardella-denies-report-of-antisemitic-messages",
        "published": "2026-09-28T15:23:14.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al-Monitor",
        "title": "French far-right leader Bardella denies media claim he made antisemitic remarks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/french-far-right-leader-bardella-denies-media-claim-he-made",
        "published": "2026-09-28T16:46:29.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}