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Addressing leaders of the Jewish community in Paris on Wednesday night, Mr. Macron criticized a "resurgence of invisible anti-Semitism since the Second World War," which he says is not happening only in France but in "all of Europe and most Western democracies".
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner is also taking steps to ban three anti-Semitic and far-right groups, which the president described as "hatred against hatred".
The French Minister of Education will investigate cases of Jewish children who are "too often forced" to leave public schools to visit private Jewish schools because of harbadment, Macron said.
This comes amidst a recent increase in antisemitic incidents. France, home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, recorded a 74% increase in these acts in 2018, out of 541 incidents against 311 the previous year, according to authorities.
Insults, including "Zionist filthy", "Islamophobe f *** ing" and "f *** your mother" were launched on Finkelkraut, while less hostile activists removed it from the protest and put to the police.
Macron condemned the attack during his visit Tuesday to the Quatzenheim cemetery, where he inspected the damage.
"We will take action, we will use the laws and we will punish," Macron told the local community leaders living in the cemetery.
"Those who did this are not worthy of the Republic … France will punish them, I do not want what happened here to give ideas to others."
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