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: “Macron’s choice: Stand with democracy, or allow Frech [sic] Jews to become political sacrifices – opinion,” 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 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.
Edward Amos Brandwein says
RIP France
RIP Europe
kevin kraemer says
As long as the USA supports Israel, there will not be a palestinian “country.” The world wants to destroy Israel, but that will never completely happen.
Billy says
The Leftists in France, like Macron. and the West, are corrupt, deceitful, and terroristic against Non-Muslims as the Leftists ally with genocidal Islam and its Muslims to help gain ultimate power and control.
There is NO MECCA, NO MUHAMMAD, and NO QURAN in the 7th century AD in Saudi Arabia despite the Muslim claims. Thus, Islam is a deceitful, factitious ideology imaginatively fabricated over time into the 21sth century. Allah’s cursed Islam, a Criminal-Terrorist Enterprise and a Murderous-Demonic Cult of Believers, Muslim Soldiers for Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, mass murder, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Quran(Quran 8:60; 9:41, 88; 5:35, etc.).
Allah’s specious ideology in Qur’an 8:39 commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until they surrender to Muslim rule when it says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Hence, Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Westerners via Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Quran 8:60; 9:5,29, 111; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4 etc.).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam and its Muslims function as a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims to make Islam supreme and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 2:191; 4:89, 91; 9:5,29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
Allah’s Islam, a supremacist Antichrist Ideology, is using Western Freedoms and Laws against Non-Muslims to conquer Non-Muslims under Islamic Rule. Non-Muslims should legally designate Islam as a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO) where Mosques, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, and Muslim Organizations are banned because of their incitement of segregation and discrimination to fight back against ISLAMIZATION, Muslim subjugation, and tyrannical violence(Quran 4:65; 9:5,29,111; 60:4; 98:6-7, etc.).
Allah’s Muslims desire to make Islam supreme. Sahih Bukhari 3126 says, “… the Prophet said, He who fights so that Allah’s Word(ie. Islam) should be superior, fights for Allah’s Cause.” Allah, the Supreme Destroyer, in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause), so they kill and are killed…”. Allah teaches that Death By Jihad leads to Muslim Paradise. Allah in Qur’an 3:169 says, “And do not consider those who were killed for the sake of Allah as dead. Yet they are alive with their lord, receiving their provision.”
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a CRIME of Blasphemy, Unbelief, and Infidelity against tyrannical Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION AS SUPREME(Quran 3:115, 151; 9:5, 29, 111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0, etc.).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-totalitarian way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of: incitement, intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, slavery, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, sedition, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:191, 208,216; 4:65, 89,91, 95, 115; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,60, 74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49, 73,88, 111,123; 21:92; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4; 61:9-11; 62:6; 89:14; etc.).
Tony Porcaro says
Very insightfully and accurately stated! Failed states such as France and most of Europe where historic values and sovereignty are DEAD because of cowardice and political correctness, are ripe for Muslim takeovers which are, in fact, well underway globally.
Tony Porcaro says
Very insightfully and accurately stated! Failed states such as France and most of Europe where historic values and sovereignty are DEAD because of cowardice and political correctness, are ripe for Muslim takeovers which are, in fact, well underway globally.
Wellington says
Best to never count on France. Work with it if you have to but never count on it.
James Lincoln says
A very wise policy, Wellington.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Wellington.
Huh?!? says
I do not understand why these countries are siding with Islam. Is it an appeasement policy so they can try and stay in power? That did not work the last time, what makes them think it will work this time? Is Macron and the others getting money for this absurd stance? There must be something in it for them.
Vv says
It actually makes a lot of sense. The Islamic population are citizens and rapidly growing, and they’ll never leave. So it is best to appease them and give them what they want.
Also, all the oil and investment flows out of the gulf. Gulf funds all the mosques in France. The Muslims in Europe are very effective and vote at high rates. Israel doesn’t really have the pull any longer, these countries like France have to appease their own Muslim citizens.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
We’re at the stage in history where nation states are committing suicide by Moslem. France, Germany, Norway, there’s a bunch of collapsed states. I used to spend a lot of time in France. It was just starting back then, but it’s full blown now. Kinda like full-blown AIDS, full-blown Islam..
somehistory says
If the U.N. building became contaminated with something before next month, and the whole of it couldn’t be used until a top to bottom scrubbing could take place, would the *vote* for the fakery take place in another location? Or would starmer, carney …u….and macron, have to wait? (the u is for those nations yet to be named as working to armor evil)
The ‘nations are being gathered to the place called Armageddon,’ and so many of their *leaders* are eager to get there.
gravenimage says
Israel, Macron, and the Moral Collapse of France
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Excellent–but very disturbng–analysis from Hugh Fitzgerald.
Major Tom says
…..and we bailed out France in two World Wars………for what?
jerry glenn says
France surges in the European Islamopandering derby.