Israel, Macron, and the Moral Collapse of France
When French President Emmanuel Macron announced that in September, at the UN General Assembly, he will call for the recognition of the “state of Palestine,” he started a juggernaut that has been joined, so far, by Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the U.K. and Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada. And Macron has apparently been working the phones, trying to persuade other world leaders to join him in this abandonment of the embattled Jewish state, and the embrace of a “state of Palestine” that still has no borders and no government — it’s an imaginary state, which is apparently meant to include all of Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem, but how this is to be achieved, and what say the Israelis will have about the 700,000 Israeli Jews who now live in this area, neither Macron nor any other Western leader has explained. More on Macron and the antisemitism that helps explain his attitude can be found here:
by David Ben-Basat, Jerusalem Post, August
This past June, as rockets rained down on Israeli cities from the North and South and Hamas proudly released execution videos of soldiers and women, French President Emmanuel Macron issued a public statement warning Israel against committing crimes in Gaza.
While condemning the October 7 massacre of civilians, Macron simultaneously emphasized Israel’s “obligation to act proportionately.” This was no passing remark from a pressured leader; it reflects a longstanding political and cultural approach in France, deeply rooted in antisemitism.
Israel was under no obligation to “act proportionately.” It’s not even clear what that would mean. Should 6,000 members of the IDF rape, torture, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Gazans? Is that “acting proportionately”? After the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, the IDF had one duty: to make sure that such attacks could never again be launched by Hamas, by destroying it completely as a military force. If the Americans in World War II had been told they must “act proportionately” they would never have dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but it was those bombs that saved hundreds of thousands of lives that would have been lost in the other possibility, an American invasion of Japan’s home islands.
Antisemitism in France is not the result of a specific crisis. It stems from deep historical, moral, and religious foundations. The alliance between the intellectual Left and anti-Zionist forces dates back to the Dreyfus Affair, continued through France’s silence during the Holocaust, and was given dramatic political expression under president Charles de Gaulle.
In the modern era, this approach persists under the guise of “liberty and equality– providing a platform for radical Islam, Jew-hatred, and the systematic delegitimization of the State of Israel.
In 1967, immediately after the Six Day War, de Gaulle – once an enthusiastic supporter of Israel – announced a one-sided arms embargo against the Jewish state and described Jews as a “domineering and self-assured people,” a phrase that would not have seemed out of place in 19th-century antisemitic rhetoric.
Since then, French policy has shifted from supporting a nation risen from the ashes of the Holocaust to embracing the Arab world and the Palestinian cause, even at the cost of moral distortion, denial of terrorism, and indirect collaboration with enemies of the West.
The United States did not begin to supply arms to Israel until 1967, just after the Six-Day War. Until then, France had been the major supplier of arms to the Jewish state; French scientists helped the Israelis to develop their nuclear arsenal. The leaders of France in those days had lived through World (War) II, and Israel’s successful effort to survive despite the efforts of five Arab armies to snuff out its young life. These men were deeply sympathetic to the Jewish state. A sea change occurred after the Six-Day War, when Israel, because the IDF had won a spectacular victory against three Arab states, now appeared to some in the new generation of French leaders as less deserving of sympathy than before. De Gaulle’s famous remark, after the Six-Day War, that Jews were “a people sure of themselves and dominating,” was a startling volte-face, one that incorporated antisemitic tropes about Jewish power.
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Macron Is Terrified of the Ever-Increasing
Muslim Presence in France
Macron’s antisemitism helps explain his attitude to the state of Israel:
Macron’s choice: Stand with democracy, or allow Frech [sic] Jews to become political sacrifices – opinion
by David Ben-Basat, Jerusalem Post, August
To this day, this pattern persists. Under slogans of “reconciliation” and “dialogue between peoples,” France has tightened its engagement with Islamic terrorist organizations, allowing them to operate openly – both diplomatically and on the streets of Paris. Macron, who publicly claims to oppose antisemitism, permits Hamas propaganda on university campuses, grants platforms to intellectuals advocating for boycotts of Israel, and cooperates with Islamist coalitions embedded in France’s educational, judicial, and security institutions.
Macron is terrified of the ever-increasing Muslim presence in France. He doesn’t dare to acknowledge the problems it has caused, in the dissolution of society, in the higher rate of crime, in the establishment of dozens of No-Go areas where the writ of the French state does not run, in the enormous expense to the state of providing millions of Muslims with all he benefits the generous French welfare state provides, in the refusal of the Muslims to integrate into a society that was created by indigenous French Infidels, who, the Muslims know, as non-Muslims, are the “most vile of created beings.”
So Macron is throwing Israel to the wolves, by recognizing a state of “Palestine” to be built on territory ripped from Israel, in the hope of winning approval from Muslims in France. They will pocket his craven surrender, but will not be any less demanding and implacable in their determination to Islamize the circumambient society.
Over the past decade, French society has become a battleground for two parallel developments: a dramatic rise in Muslim antisemitism – in mosques, schools, on the streets, and online – and the creeping implementation of Sharia law into daily life, eroding the foundational values of the republic.
Macron is well aware of the statistics: Over 70% of antisemitic attacks in France are carried out by Islamist extremists. Yet he chooses to obscure the truth, attributing the violence to “social issues,” “alienation from government,” or “cries for help.”
“Alienation from government”? “Cries for help?” Is that why Muslims tortured to death, over three weeks, Ilan Halimi, stabbed to death 65-year old Sara Halimi and threw her body out the window, stabbed the 84-year-old Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, and then set her on fire? Was Mohammed Merah “crying for help” when he shot to death Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and his two sons Gavriel, 6, and Aryeh, 3, as well as 8-year-old Miriam Monsonego? Was it a “cry for help” when a Muslim gunman shot dead four customers at a kosher grocery? No. These Jews were all murdered because the Jews are described in the Qur’an as the “strongest in enmity to the Muslims,” and Muslims have been taught that Jews likely poisoned Muhammad. Muslim antisemitism predates by 1350 years the existence of the modern state of Israel.
Following the October 7 massacre, France once again chose the wrong side of history. Instead of offering unwavering solidarity with a democratic nation facing the deadliest attack in its modern history, Macron called for an “immediate ceasefire,” without mentioning the hostages, the atrocities of Hamas, or the global context of radical Islam.
Macron was determined, very early on, to stop the IDF from continuing to batter Hamas. He saw no objection, apparently, to the terror group continuing to rule over Gaza. He said nothing about the hostages or about the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7. Nor did he mention anything about the menace from the growth of jihadism, of which Hamas is only a bit player, around the world, and even inside France itself.
France maintains open channels of communication with Hamas representatives and frequently serves as a mediator between Qatar, Iran, and Islamic Jihad. After Macron recently announced his intention to recognize a Palestinian state, Israeli journalist Omri Maniv reported on Channel 12 that five years ago, Macron personally approved a secret relationship between French intelligence and senior Hamas officials.
What in god’s name was Macron doing in 2020 when he approved of this secret relationship between “French intelligence and senior Hamas officials”? Was he trying to ensure that Hamas did not engage in terrorism on French territory, and that, in return, he would provide diplomatic support to the cause of “Palestine”? Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella of the Rassemblement Nationale should demand that these secret dealings with a designated terror group be made public.
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