France has summoned US ambassador Charles Kushner after he said that French President Emmanuel Macron had failed to tackle antisemitic violence effectively, the French foreign ministry said on Sunday.
In a letter sent to the French president and published in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Kushner said he had “deep concern over the dramatic rise of antisemitism in France and the lack of sufficient action by your government to confront it”.
In a statement on Sunday, the French foreign ministry responded: “The allegations of the ambassador are unacceptable”, and contravene international law governing diplomatic relations relating to interventions in the domestic affairs of another country.