What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. No reason at all. I do not know one person in the National Front who committed even the most minor hostile act against a Jewish person or Jewish property. As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. There just are people, organizations, that need an adversary and they want the public to believe that this adversary is dangerous.

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.

In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.