US EditionMacron calls for stronger measures against antisemitism in France
- On February 13, 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron called for intensified efforts to combat antisemitism while speaking at an Élysée Presidential Palace ceremony commemorating Ilan Halimi.
- Following the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, Macron criticised online hatred and urged the European Commission to hold big platforms accountable.
- Macron proposed tougher legal steps, including mandatory electoral bans for officials guilty of antisemitic acts, and said government and parliament will strengthen penalties because sentences often seem derisory.
- Commemorations have coincided with French Jews making their way to Israel, and several memorial trees for Ilan Halimi have been vandalised, Macron noted.
- France documented 53% of all anti-religious incidents in 2025, with rising hostility across Europe, including Britain’s 3,700 incidents, the Interior Ministry reported.
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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he wanted officials accused of "anti-Semitic, racist and discriminatory actions and statements" to be banned from running in elections.
During the commemoration of the twenty years of the murder of the young man, Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed his support for the French Jewish community. But his policy is not effective against protean anti-Semitism, according to the sociologist.
According to Libération, on 13 February, in front of more than 200 guests, Emmanuel Macron went back for a long time on "Islamic anti-Semitism at the origin of the pogrom of 7 October." An advisor to the president said that Emmanuel Macron wanted "to draw up an observation but also to identify, qualify the propagators and propaganda that spread anti-Semitic poison in the heart of our nation", with the target "the far right as the far left" and "…
Too often, the sentences imposed on perpetrators of anti-Semitic offenses and crimes seem ridiculous, the French president said at a memorial service for a Jew murdered in 2006.
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Columbia Gorge NewsMacron slams 'antisemitic hydra' as he honours 2006 Jewish murder victim
President Emmanuel Macron Friday denounced what he described as an "antisemitic hydra" that had crept into "every crack" of society two decades after Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old French Jewish man, was tortured to death.
20 years after the death of the young Jew Ilan Halimi, Marine Le Pen and Arno Klarsfeld denounced a rise of "anti-Semitism in France" Marine Le Pen and the Franco-Israeli lawyer Arno Klarsfeld
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