The U.S. government defended Charles Kushner, the U.S. ambassador to France whose son is married to the daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, after Kushner penned an Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal op-ed denouncing Jew-hatred in the country.

“We stand by his comments,” Tommy Pigott, principal deputy U.S. State Department spokesman, told JNS of the envoy’s piece, published as an open letter to Emmanuel Macron, the French president.

The ambassador is “our U.S. government representative in France and is doing a great job advancing our national interests in that role,” Pinot told JNS.

On Tuesday, Kushner stated that his team met on Monday with French foreign ministry officials “regarding my letter to President Macron, and more importantly, to discuss how we can and will work together t

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