The LDH was founded on Dreyfusard and pro-Jewish principles

Evidence

Straight away, striking paradoxes emerge. The Ligue appeared in 2004 to fall near pole one, yet its history places it nearer pole two. The organisation would see any suggestion that it is soft on antisemitism as unthinkable given its origins. The oldest of the four, it was founded in 1898 by campaigners seeking to prove that Alfred Dreyfus was innocent, embuing the organisation thereafter with the moral mantle of ‘Dreyfusard’. At its height during the inter-war period, when it was the largest human rights organisation in the world and larger than most French political parties, the Ligue developed a reputation as a doughty defender of the rights of Jewish and other immigrants. This reputation was enhanced during the Occupation, when many of its leading figures were killed by the Nazis— or by the French collaborationist militia the Milice, in the case of the Hungarian-born Victor Basch, the LDH’s president from 1925 until his assassination in 1944 at the age of eighty. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1338 (#expands, via linked claim)

Thus closes the only episode in which the subterranean forces of the nineteenth century enter the full light of recorded history. The only visible result was that it gave birth to the Zionist movement—the only political answer Jews have ever found to antisemitism and the only ideology in which they have ever taken seriously a hostility that would place them in the center of world events. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 337 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The LDH held colonialist views despite defending Jews at home; The Ligue des droits de l’homme’s Dreyfusard origins shape its present stance on antisemitism — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1338; The Dreyfus Affair birthed Zionism as the sole Jewish political answer to antisemitism — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 337 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The Ligue des droits de l’homme’s Dreyfusard origins shape its present stance on antisemitism #expands (0.92) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1338
• The Dreyfus acquittal enhanced rather than weakened social antisemitism #complicates (0.75)
• The Dreyfus Affair birthed Zionism as the sole Jewish political answer to antisemitism #complicates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 337