The French far-right's father/daughter Le Pen team in public spat over antisemitic remarks by dad

Marine Le Pen (centre) and her father Jean-Marie (left). Marine has worked
to present a softer, less xenophobic face of the far-right in France.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right Front National and his daughter, Marine, the party's president are engaged in a public spat over his alleged antisemitic remarks. The row erupted after he made a video aired on the FN website in which he made a play on the word four (oven) – seen as referring to the Nazi concentration camps – when disparaging a French singer of Jewish origin.

Marine Le Pen, who has worked to present a softer, less xenophobic face of the far-right in France, described the comment as a "political gaffe" and ordered the video to be pulled from the party website.

Le Pen has hit back at his daughter. "The political gaffe is those who are lining up with the general view. They want to seem like other political parties. If that's the wish of a certain number of FN leaders, they've succeeded. They're the ones who have made a political gaffe, not me," he told BFMTV.

"Le Pen has unmasked the true face of the far-right of Europe days after their electoral successes in the European parliament," (European Jewish Congress president Dr Moshe) Kantor said at the weekend. "While some have tried to whitewash and mainstream these parties, Le Pen's comments demonstrate that they still stand on foundations of hatred, antisemitism and xenophobia.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/jean-marie-marine-le-pen-public-spat-alleged-antisemitic-front-national

Must be hard to keep those old time hard-line right wingers on the new "friendly" far-right playbook even when he is your father.