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<\/p>\nFrance has summoned US Ambassador Charles Kushner after he wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron alleging the country did not do enough to combat anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
The French government on Sunday issued a statement announcing it had summoned Kushner to appear yesterday at the at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and that his allegations \u201care unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The White House did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. US Department of State spokesman Tommy Pigott on Sunday evening said it stood by Kushner\u2019s comments, adding: \u201cAmbassador Kushner is our US government representative in France and is doing a great job advancing our national interests in that role.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Photo: AFP<\/p>\n
The summoning of the ambassador is a formal and public notice of displeasure.<\/p>\n
Kushner is the father of US President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n
The French foreign ministry, in its statement, said \u201cFrance firmly rejects these allegations\u201d from Charles Kushner and that French authorities have \u201cfully mobilized\u201d to combat a rise in anti-Semitic acts since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel, deeming the acts \u201cintolerable.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the letter, released late on Sunday, Kushner wrote that \u201cpublic statements haranguing Israel and gestures toward recognition of a Palestinian state embolden extremists, fuel violence and endanger Jewish life in France.\u201d<\/p>\n
He urged Macron \u201cto act decisively: enforce hate-crime laws without exception, ensure the safety of Jewish schools, synagogues and businesses … and abandon steps that give legitimacy to Hamas and its allies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The French ministry said that his allegations violate international law and the obligation not to interfere with the internal affairs of another country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey also fall short of the quality of the transatlantic partnership between France and the United States and of the trust that must prevail between allies,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
The dustup follows Macron\u2019s rejection this past week of accusations from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that France\u2019s intention to recognize a Palestinian state is fueling anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
France is home to the largest Jewish population in Europe, with an estimated 500,000 Jews, the third-largest Jewish population in the world after Israel and the US. That is approximately 1 percent of the national population.<\/p>\n
The diplomatic discord comes as French-US relations have faced tensions this year amid Trump\u2019s trade war and a split over the future of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. France in particular has objected to the US push to wind down the peacekeeping operation known as UNIFIL, with a vote on the issue set for the end of the month by the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n
France and the US have also been divided on support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, but the split has eased with Trump expressing support for security guarantees and a warm meeting with Macron and other European leaders at the White House last week.<\/p>\n
Trump at the end of his first term as president pardoned Charles Kushner, who pleaded guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France has summoned US Ambassador Charles Kushner after he wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron alleging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,17260,17259],"class_list":{"0":"post-372762","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","11":"tag-the-taipei-times","12":"tag-17259"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115090411626623394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372762","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=372762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}