Macron hits out at ‘abject’ Netanyahu claim of rise in antisemitism in France | Israel-Gaza war

Emmanuel Macron shot Benjamin Netanyahu for his “Abject” and “faulty” statements after claiming that anti -Semitism in France after the decided to recognize a Palestinian state in September of Israeli Prime Minister Antisemitism.

In a statement published late on Tuesday, the French President’s office returned to Netanyahu’s claim. “In September, France’s decision to recognize the Palestinian state in France is behind the anti -Semitic increase in violence, wrong, disgusting and will not remain unanswered,” he said. “The current period requires seriousness and responsibility, not generalization and manipulation.”

The relations between the two leaders since July, when Macron announced that France would be the first major Western power to recognize a Palestinian state at the UN general assembly of France, in the hope of bringing peace to the region.

At that time, Netanyahu, who was requested by the International Criminal Court on the allegations of war crimes in Gaza, criticized the decision by saying that France was “rewarding terror”. “Under these circumstances, a Palestinian state will be a launching ramp to destroy Israel – not to live in peace.”

The movement means that France will participate in the UN group (at least 145 of 193).

In a letter sent to Macron at the beginning of this week, Netanyahu accused the French president of not doing enough to confront the anxiety of anti -Semitism in France. Netanyahu wrote, “Your call for the Palestinian state is fueling this fire of anti -Semitism,” he wrote.

A letter similar to almost the same expressions, reported It was also sent to the Australian Prime Minister at the beginning of this week.

Macron’s office, who responded to the allegations, said that France has always kept and maintained Jewish citizens ”and since 2017, the President required the government to“ take the most powerful action against the perpetrators of anti -Semitic actions ”.

According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Interior of France, 504 anti -Semitic action was reported throughout the country between January and May this year, which showed a decrease of 24% compared to the previous year.

However, the figures remain high, in 2013, the number of events reported from the same time period doubled. The Jewish community of France, one of the largest in the world, has increased since the war in Gaza in response to the attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023 of the anti -Semitic actions.

Recently, the cut of an olive tree erected in memory of a young French Jewish man who was tortured in 2006 created anger and promised to punish Macron’s “antisemitic hate” action.

The tensions between Israel and its traditional allies are a movement that reveals similar signals from Macron’s promise to recognize a Palestinian state in recent weeks.

This week, Netanyahu said that on Tuesday, Netanyahu said that the Prime Minister of Australia was a weak politician who betrayed Israel on Tuesday, after sending a letter accusing an accusation of fueling anti -Semitism with the decision to recognize the Palestinian state.

Albanians brushed the allegations. “I don’t get them personally,” he said to journalists on Wednesday. “I am respectful to the leaders of other countries. I agree with them in a diplomatic way.”

Hours after dealing with his office Netanyahu, Macron stressed his plans to preside a conference with Saudi Arabia in New York on a two -state solution in New York.

Macron made an announcement while criticizing Israel’s “military attack in Gaza” plans and wrote on social media that “both peoples and the whole region can lead to a disaster for risks to a permanent war cycle”.

Global pressure on Israel to address the situation in Gaza, at least 62,000 people have been killed and a complete blockade in the aid of Palestinian territory led to widespread hunger conditions.

In July, two of Israel’s most respected human rights organizations, B’Tselem and Human Rights Doctors, said that Israel had genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza and that the Western allies of the country were a legal and moral task to stop it. The accusation reflects previous positions taken by Global Human Rights Organizations Médecins Sans Frontières And International Amnesty International.

Israel denies that a genocide has carried out a genocide, and says that the war in Gaza defended mostly about 1,200 people in response to the cross -border attacks of Hamas on October 7, 2023.