Macron is blind to the decivilisation of France

For the second time in a week, Emmanuel Macron has been criticised for allowing antisemitism to run riot in France. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed last week that antisemitism had ‘surged’ in France after Macron announced his intention to recognise Palestinian statehood next month.

It is not only France’s Jews who are living in fear. Last week police in Nantes warned the city’s gay community to take extra precautions

On Sunday, the US ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner, wrote to Macron to express his concern that the president was not doing enough to combat rising antisemitism in France. There have been several troubling incidents since Macron made his declaration about Palestine at the end of July. Cars belonging to British Jews on holiday in the French Alps have