{"id":357162,"date":"2025-08-19T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357162\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:50:10","slug":"netanyahu-accuses-macron-of-fuelling-antisemitism-by-recognizing-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357162\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu accuses Macron of fuelling antisemitism by recognizing Palestinian state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b8aab97_ftp-import-images-1-q7ac9iub7cjr-24e56b1e2fd54baa8dee72e804b8193a-0-d5566bcff311418ebf86c4eb.jpeg\" alt=\"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.\"   width=\"664\" height=\"443\"\/>    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.  RONEN ZVULUN \/ AP                        <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upbraided President Emmanuel Macron in a letter seen by Agence France-Presse on Tuesday, August 19, blaming the French leader&#8217;s move to recognize a Palestinian state for fuelling anti-semitism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Late last month, Macron said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/international\/article\/2025\/07\/25\/macron-decides-to-recognize-state-of-palestine-amid-diplomatic-impasse-and-humanitarian-disaster-in-gaza_6743706_4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France would formally recognize a Palestinian state<\/a> during a UN meeting in September, drawing a swift rebuke from Israel. By announcing the move, France was set to join a growing list of nations to recognize statehood for the Palestinians since Israel launched a bombardment of Gaza nearly two years ago in response to Hamas&#8217;s shock attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">In the letter sent to Macron, Netanyahu said antisemitism had &#8220;surged&#8221; in France following the announcement. &#8220;Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on this antisemitic fire. It is not diplomacy, it is appeasement. It rewards Hamas terror, hardens Hamas&#8217;s refusal to free the hostages, emboldens those who menace French Jews and encourages the Jew-hatred now stalking your streets,&#8221; Netanyahu wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">The Israeli premier went on to call on Macron to confront antisemitism in France, saying he must &#8220;replace weakness with action, appeasement with resolve, and to do so by a clear date: the Jewish New Year, September 23.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"author__detail\">  Le Monde with AFP  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday, August 13, 2025. RONEN ZVULUN \/ AP Israeli Prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-357162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115056228632544206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}