Emmanuel Macron: "Anti-Zionism is one of the modern forms of anti-Semitism"

French President Emmanuel Macron again spoke of the resurgence of anti-Semitism in FranceAfter 80 graves were desecrated in a Jewish cemetery in the city of Quatzenheim, among other episodes.

"Who does not see that anti-Semitism is hiding more and more under the mask of anti-Zionism? Anti-Zionism is one of the modern forms of anti-Semitism ", the president wrote on Twitter.

According to Macron, this resurgence of anti-Semitism is confirmed not only in France but also "throughout Europe and in almost all Western democracies".

In a speech to the Council representing the Jewish institutions of the country (CRIF), Macron said France would adopt in its reference texts a definition of anti-Semitism that would include anti-Zionism, although the penal code is not changed.

The French president also announced that determined to his cabinet concrete actions to obtain the dissolution of three badociations of the far right.

"I asked the Minister of the Interior to initiate the procedures to dissolve badociations or groups that, through their behavior, fuel hatred, promote discrimination and call for violent actions"he said.

According to preliminary information, the three organizations targeted by the authorities are in the process of Social Bastion, Blood and Honor Hexagon, and all the far right.

In addition, she announced that a legislator of her party would submit to May a bill to fight against hate crimes on the Internet

Macron participated in this event with representatives of the Jewish community after incidents of clear antisemitic style in recent days.

Saturday, the intellectual Alain Finkielkraut was harbaded when he was recognized on the sidelines of a protest demonstration and that at least one man shouted to him "Zionist".

Tuesday, meanwhile, 96 graves of a Jewish cemetery in the east of the country were vandalized and marked with swastikas.

A few days ago, portraits of Simone Veil, survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp and emblematic figure of French political life, had been disfigured with swastikas.

For Macron, "Anti-Semitism is not the problem of the Jews, but the problem of the "French" republic.