“The analysis that France’s decision to recognize the state of Palestine in September explains the rise in antisemitic violence in France is erroneous, abject, and will not go unanswered,” Macron’s office said in a statement released on Tuesday evening. Netanyahu wrote to Macron that antisemitism has “surged” in France since Macron’s announcement that he will recognize a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly next month, in a letter dated Monday seen by the Associated Press. “Violence against the Jewish community is unacceptable,” the statement by Macron’s office said, noting that the French president has systematically asked all his governments since 2017, and even more so since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, to “take the strongest possible action against the perpetrators of antisemitic acts.”
Author: Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press
Published at: 2025-08-20 22:42:12
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