Emmanuel Macron: From Blindness to Complicity
In his recent letter to Benjamin Netanyahu, French President Emmanuel Macron crossed a line of intolerable ignominy. He began by assuring that France would continue to protect its Jewish citizens, only to immediately urge Israel to halt its “illegal and murderous headlong rush.” The link he drew between these two points is chilling.
To describe Israel in such terms is to echo, word for word, the rhetoric of the state’s most determined enemies. Macron’s letter reveals three things:
- His deep hostility toward Israel,
- His alignment with those who seek its destruction,
- And his real indifference to the fate of the Jews, despite his declarations.
Recycling Antisemitic Tropes
Never before had a French president dared to insult Israel by accusing it of “murderous folly”—a charge usually reserved for the most virulent antisemites. Worse still, Macron suggested that Israel itself provokes antisemitism through its policies. This is an old antisemitic trope: blaming Jews for the hatred they endure.
The true “murderous folly,” Mr. Macron, lies in the acts of the Islamists you choose to spare—those who dream of endless pogroms. Israel, by contrast, is defending itself.
This letter is no diplomatic misstep; it is a disgrace. It marks a president who has slipped into complicity with the worst antisemitic discourse. With Macron’s obsessive fixation on Israel, one could say—after “Mélenchon, get out of this body”—now: “Rima, get out of this body.”
Silence on Islamism
Macron insists that antisemitism in France comes from the far right and far left. He conveniently omits the obvious: that today antisemitism is also fueled by the Islamist rhetoric he himself repeats, often verbatim, alongside the radical left. His words are indistinguishable from the slogans of Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Rima Hassan.
Not a single mention of Islamism—the main source of hatred against Jews and Israel. Since 2007, how many Jews in France have been murdered by Islamists? And yet this Islamism, financed by Qatar, is welcomed at the Élysée. This Islamism, spread daily through AJ+ in French—a Doha-based channel poisoning French youth—is received in Paris with red-carpet honors.
Expelled through the front door, it returns through the back.
A Lebanon Policy that Insults Victims
This same blindness shapes Macron’s message on Lebanon. He claims to support the country, but omits the essential:
- No mention of Hezbollah—the Iranian-backed militia that holds Lebanon hostage. Remaining silent is an insult to its Lebanese and French victims.
- Again pointing at Israel—while it was Israeli strikes that weakened Hezbollah and unblocked Lebanon’s political deadlock, for the benefit of both Lebanese and Syrians.
- Praising UNIFIL’s mandate renewal—a force that for years turned a blind eye to Hezbollah’s weapons and tunnels. Complicit through inaction, destructive through negligence.
- Always sending Jean-Yves Le Drian—Macron’s long-time envoy, notoriously close to Hezbollah, who in eight years achieved nothing but cover for the group responsible for killing dozens of French soldiers.
This is not support for Lebanon. It is betrayal. Macron has become the objective ally of Hezbollah and the Islamists, and the worst enemy of the Middle East’s peoples.
An Embassy for Rima?
As if this were not enough, Macron now wants to open a French embassy in the Palestinian territories—before even many Arab states have done so. This would flatter antisemites, ridicule France, and further poison the conflict.
At this pace, Mr. Macron may as well become Hamas’s ambassador. He has outdone Mélenchon: pandering to Islamists, shaming France, and fueling hatred against Israel.
Conclusion
By aligning with Islamist and antisemitic narratives, flattering Israel’s fiercest enemies, and insulting victims in Lebanon, Emmanuel Macron does not defend peace—he undermines it. He does not support the peoples of the Middle East—he condemns them to Islamist domination.
A French president who claims to protect Jews while repeating the slogans of their enemies has ceased to be credible.
