Overview

• The French Foreign Ministry summoned Ambassador Charles Kushner on Monday after his Wall Street Journal open letter to President Emmanuel Macron.
• In the letter, Kushner claimed France is not doing enough to counter antisemitism and argued that planned recognition of a Palestinian state encourages extremists.
• Paris labeled the accusations unacceptable and cited the Vienna Convention’s obligation not to interfere in a state’s internal affairs.
• U.S. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said the United States supports Kushner’s statements and praised his work as Washington’s representative in France.
• The dispute follows Macron’s late‑July pledge to recognize Palestine and reflects a broader pattern of French summons of Western envoys, including Italy’s ambassador days earlier.