{"id":373272,"date":"2025-08-25T21:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373272\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:13:18","slug":"us-backs-ambassador-to-france-charles-kushner-in-antisemitism-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373272\/","title":{"rendered":"US backs ambassador to France Charles Kushner in antisemitism row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A diplomatic row between the United States and France escalated on Monday when Washington decided to stand firmly behind its ambassador\u2019s criticism of the French response to a rising tide of antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>US ambassador Charles Kushner, the father of US President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> son-in-law, was ordered to report to the French foreign ministry on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But, as Kushner was absent, the US embassy\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires went in his place and was received by two French foreign ministry directors, a French diplomatic source said.<\/p>\n<p>The row erupted amid concerns about an increase in antisemitic acts and hate crimes in France as international tensions mount over the conflict in Gaza. Kushner, in a public letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, has accused France of a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3323002\/us-envoy-criticises-frances-lack-action-over-antisemitism-paris-summons-ambassador?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201clack of sufficient action\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">France retorted that \u201cthe allegations from the ambassador are unacceptable\u201d and the rift deepened on Monday when Kushner was summoned to the ministry and the Trump administration doubled down on his critique.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stand by his comments,\u201d said Tommy Pigott, deputy State Department spokesman. \u201cAmbassador Kushner is our US government representative in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/france?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> and is doing a great job advancing our national interests in that role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A diplomatic row between the United States and France escalated on Monday when Washington decided to stand firmly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[26388,130602,6505,130164,32,34,2000,299,36,2194,835,837,54713,92426,81844,8406,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-373272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-aurore-berge","10":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","11":"tag-charles-kushner","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-gaza","18":"tag-hamas","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-jewish","21":"tag-october-7","22":"tag-palestinian","23":"tag-united-nations","24":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115091472574129887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373272","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=373272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}