Faced with the president of Crif, Emmanuel Macron believes that France will be intractable on anti-Semitism. In the midst of an upsurge in anti-Semitic acts in France since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 – we saw a 4-fold increase in these acts between 2022 and 2023 – President Emmanuel Macron says.
The head of state promises a judicial and security response, and a fight to continue to build awareness in schools and universities. “There is this chain from president to president, at the head of our Republic: act against the separatists, against all the bearers of hatred, and give in nothing toAnti-Semitism,” he says.