I’m going to use this ^^ photo of Madonna from now on, okay? Anyway, I’m sort of surprised with how Madonna’s promotional tour for her new album has been going thus far. I don’t hate it. And Madonna hasn’t been a complete jackass. The quotes coming out of her Rolling Stone interview were at times on-point and at the very least, thought-provoking. She explained her BRIT Awards fall and her explanation sounded legit. And in a new interview, she’s taking on French politics. Sort of. In the past years, Madonna has been outspoken of her disdain for Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right wing part, the National Front. Madonna has gotten in trouble for openly comparing Le Pen to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Now that everyone is on edge in France following the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the assault on the Jewish deli, Madge decided it would be a great idea to chime in once again on what she sees as a rise in anti-Semitism in France particularly:

In a recent interview with French radio station Europe 1, Madonna slammed “the level of intolerance” in France and across all of Europe, saying, it “feels like Nazi Germany.”

“We’re living in crazy times,” she said. “Antisemitism is at an all-time high…It’s not just happening in France, it’s all over Europe. But particularly in France. It was a country that embraced everyone and encouraged freedom in every way shape or form. Now that’s completely gone.”

This isn’t the first time Madge has spoken out on this issue. During a July 2012 concert in Paris, she flashed a photo of one Marine Le Pen (who heads the France’s far right Front National) with a swastika on her forehead. After the party threatened to sue, the Material Girl ultimately dropped the swastika and replaced it with a question mark on her forehead.

She did, though, speak out against this extremist party, calling it “fascist.” She stands by her criticism, too, saying (per the U.K.’s Guardian), “What I said two years ago is still valid today…The level of intolerance is so enormous it’s scary.”

[From E! News]

To be fair to Madonna (what is happening to me?), Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said pretty much the same thing a few weeks ago, and he took it one step further by encouraging European Jews to move to Israel en masse. Not only that, but French Jews are actually moving. Following a rising rate of crimes and assaults on Jewish people and Jewish-owned property, French Jews have been emigrating to Israel in increasing numbers. What I’m saying is that Madonna might actually have a point?

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