Editing The Greens (France) (section)

==The Skandrani Affair==
One of the party's co-founders, [[Ginette Skandrani]], had long attracted criticism due to her involvement with [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust deniers]].<ref name="auffray">{{in lang|fr}} Auffray, Alain, ''[http://www.pdpinfo.org/article.php3?id_article=909 Une verte trop brune exclue du parti] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312122359/http://www.pdpinfo.org/article.php3?id_article=909 |date=12 March 2007 }}'', ''Libération'', 2 June 2006– hosted on [http://www.pdpinfo.org/ http://www.pdpinfo.org/]</ref>
The [[Stephen Roth Institute]] criticized the Green Party in 2004, calling its record "tainted by abortive attempts to expel from within its ranks notorious anti-Jewish activist Ginette Skandrani herself ethnically Jewish<ref name="www.proche-orient.info">{{in lang|fr}} Audio file recorded by Skandrani, hosted on [http://www.proche-orient.info www.proche-orient.info]</ref> who has close contacts with Holocaust deniers."<ref name="Roth">Anonymous, "[http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2004/france.htm Country Reports, France- 2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119110633/http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2004/france.htm |date=19 November 2012 }}", ''Steven Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism.'' 2004.</ref>

Other critics, such as [[Roger Cukierman]] of the [[Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France|Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions]] did not attack the party as a whole, but rather its [[Anti-Zionism|anti-Zionist]] wing, claiming that it promoted a "[[Red-green-brown alliance|brown-green alliance]]".<ref name="auffray" />

In June 2005, the Greens voted to permanently expel Skandrani. Among the reasons for her definitive expulsion were her participation in the holocaust-denial website ''[[AAARGH]]'' (Association des anciens amateurs de récits de guerres et d'holocaustes).<ref name="auffray" /> Patrick Farbiaz, a Green leader involved in her expulsion, argued that "although she has not written [anti-Semitic texts] herself, she looks like a kingpen of holocaust deniers and avowed antisemites".<ref name="auffray" />

The party had previously expelled another co-founder (in 1991), [[Jean Brière]], for signing a text addressing the alleged "war-causing role" of Israel and "the [[zionism|zionist]] lobby in the [[Gulf War]]."<ref name="auffray" />