Macron's Endorsement of a Palestinian State Will Drive French Jews Into the Arms of Le Pen

I cannot say I am shocked that French President Emmanuel Macron would announce his intention to endorse a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September. 

Macron has been moving Heaven and Earth to delegitimize, stigmatize and ostracize Israel. It was only a matter of time before he would see fit to endorse a Palestinian state. 

Loathe as I am to agree with the Trump Administration on anything, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is correct to say that this "serves Hamas propaganda" and "is a slap in the face to the victims of October 7th." Indeed, I would go further than that. Macron is rewarding Hamas actions on October 7th and is giving them license to continue to negotiate in bad faith on the release of the 50 remaining hostages both living and dead. Unfortunately, I suspect that the rest of the EU, the U.K. and Canada will eventually go along with this dubious scheme.

In making this declaration, Macron will alienate French Jews to the point where they might very well turn to Marine Le Pen and the National Rally en masse. Not that Macron particularly cares as he is ineligible to run for a third consecutive term in 2027. While Le Pen is prohibited from running for office in 2027 due to pending criminal charges, it isn't stopping her from trying to win over French Jews. Le Pen wrote on X:

To recognize a Palestinian state today is to recognize a Hamas state, and therefore a terrorist state.....While hope has always led us toward a two-state solution, this decision legitimizes the October 7th massacre and the trail of suffering it caused, even as hostages remain in captivity.

I would be hard pressed to disagree with anything Le Pen said. Nevertheless, I remain very wary of her. Nevertheless, there was a pronounced shift towards Le Pen by French Jews in parliamentary elections a year ago and Macron's pronouncement and forthcoming UN speech will accelerate that support. Assuming Le Pen cannot run in 2027 this might be further accelerated if Jordan Bardella runs in her place as he has none of the baggage associated with the Le Pen name. 

If neither France's center nor left is prepared to defend Israel much less its Jewish community and the right (even the far-right) is prepared to fill that space, then this is where French Jews will go. Unless, of course, they see fit to leave France for Israel as has been encouraged by Israel's Minister of Immigration Ofir Sofer. Nevertheless, France has not only the largest Jewish population in Europe, but the third largest in the world behind only Israel and the United States.

I suppose it is fitting that France would see fit to publicly support a Palestinian state. After all, it was the anti-Semitism of 19th Century France in the Dreyfus Affair which gave birth to the modern Zionist movement. Macron is continuing the long-standing French tradition of bathing in a cesspool of anti-Semitism. For shame.