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Macron hits back at Netanyahu over claims of fuelling anti-Semitism

French President Emmanuel Macron, pictured at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on Wednesday, has shot back at criticism from the Israeli leader. [Thibaud Moritz / AFP]

President Emmanuel Macron has rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for accusing him of fuelling anti-Semitism, calling the comments an “offence to France as a whole”.

The French leader responded to his Israeli counterpart in a letter published on Tuesday in several newspapers, in which he said Netanyahu’s recent accusations aimed at Macron were “unacceptable” and warned that the battle against anti-Semitism “must not be weaponised”.

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