Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Emmanuel Macron “of fueling anti -Semitic fire”. Paris reacts.
France has “no lessons to receive in the fight against anti -Semitism”, retorted on Tuesday August 19, French Minister of European Affairs Benjamin Haddad after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused French President Emmanuel Macron “of fueling anti -Semitic fire”.
“I would like to say in a very clear and very firm way that this subject of anti-Semitism which poisons our European societies, and we have seen an acceleration of violent anti-Semitic acts since the attacks of Hamas in October 7, we cannot instrumentalize it,” said on Bfmtv The Minister, according to whom the French authorities have “always been extremely mobilized against anti -Semitism”.
The French presidency denounced as “erroneous, abject” the accusation of Benjamin Netanyahu who considered that Emmanuel Macron’s will to recognize the Palestinian state fed anti -Semitism.
The letter from the head of the Israeli government “will not remain unanswered,” added the Elysée, who also said that “the Republic protects and will always protect its compatriots from Jewish confession”. “The period requires gravity and responsibility, not amalgams and manipulations,” said the Elysée.