France "stands" for the Jews, 200 thousand citizens march against anti-Semitism, this is why the participation of Macron's rival has caused controversy

About 200,000 French people joined anti-Semitic marches across the country over the weekend. France is the country with the largest Jewish community in Europe, with an estimated half a million Jews living there and since the start of the war in the Middle East. But it has marked the most drastic increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the EU. According to the French Interior Ministry, more than 1,000 attacks against members of the French Jewish community have been recorded since October 7 to date; which is three times more than the whole of last year. The largest march took place in Paris and was led by all the prominent French politicians; from former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy, Francois Hollande to the current prime minister Elisabeth Borne. They carried a large banner "For the Republic, against anti-Semitism". It is worth noting that the leader of the radical right-wing party National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, the father whose Jean-Marie Le Pen, a notorious anti-Semite, joined the movement against the rise of anti-Semitism. The leader of the radical leftist France Unconquered party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, did not join the march and criticized the organizers. "A France where our Jewish fellow citizens do not feel safe is not France," President Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media this Sunday, expressing his support for the rally despite being prevented from joining himself. He announced that his government will not tolerate anyone who himself does not show tolerance. We remember that this weekend Emmanuel Macron sent the first open criticism of the Israeli government, for the continuous attacks.