Macron Denounces Anti-Zionism as ‘Reinvented Form of Anti-Semitism’
President François Mitterrand, who worked as a low-level Vichy administrator before joining the Resistance, declared in 1992
that "the French state was the Vichy regime, it was not the Republic." He argued, as his predecessors had, that the only legitimate representatives of France were in exile with Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who ran the wartime Resistance from London.
Joined by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, as well as Holocaust survivors, the Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld
and others, Mr. Macron commemorated the 75th anniversary of a roundup of Jews at the Vélodrome d’Hiver, or Vel d’Hiv, a Paris stadium.
By RUSSELL GOLDMANJULY 17, 2017
Standing at a site from which thousands of French Jews were sent to their deaths during the Holocaust, President Emmanuel Macron of France on Sunday deplored his nation’s wartime role in abetting murder
and pledged to fight a renewed tide of anti-Semitism.
Macron said that I call for a resumption of negotiations between Israel
and the Palestinians in the framework of the search for a solution of two states, Israel and Palestine, living in recognized, secure borders with Jerusalem as the capital,
In April, Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front leader whom Mr. Macron defeated in a May runoff election, declared
that "France was not responsible for the Vel d’Hiv," denying French responsibility and setting off a furor.
that Admittedly Vichy was not all of the French,