If your mother is Jewish, you
are Jewish. I'm an atheist too, and so is my mother. However, I am Jewish because my mother is who is Jewish because her mother is, etc. I don't know anything about this French anti-semite but the maternal descent comes from the Halacha laws.
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Judaism introduced matrilineal descent somewhere in the period of the Second Temple and the Roman occupation according to Prof. Shaye Cohen
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Matrilineal Descent in Judaism