PARIS (AP) — A tempest has been unleashed upon the House of Le Pen, the seat of France’s rising far right, with the wounded patriarch and founder of the National Front lashing out at his political heir and daughter in a feud over an anti-Semitic smear.

A public dressing-down of Jean-Marie Le Pen shows how far his daughter, Marine Le Pen, is prepared to go make the party a cornerstone of the French political landscape and loft her into her dream job, the presidency.