Anti-Semitism is always “hateful”, a “France that our fellow Jews are afraid of is not France”. French President Emmanuel Macron wrote this in a letter to his fellow citizens on the occasion of the march against anti-Semitism planned for today in Paris, after the war triggered by the Hamas attack on Israel led to thousands of racist attacks on French Jews.
During Hamas’s “terrorist attack” on October 7, “40 of our compatriots became victims of barbarism, eight are missing or held hostage. We are all tormented. All together with their families. Everyone mobilized to achieve the liberation of all hostages. Added to this nation’s pain was the unbearable resurgence of rampant anti-Semitism. Whether religious, social, identity-based or racist, anti-Semitism is always as Emile Zola portrayed it: hateful,” we read in the letter published in Le Parisien, in which Macron quotes the writer who defended Captain Dreyfus in the most famous case of anti-Semitism in France .