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France has summoned the U.S. ambassador to Paris aft the diplomat, Charles Kushner, wrote a missive to French President Emmanuel Macron alleging the state did not bash capable to combat antisemitism.
France's overseas ministry issued a connection Sunday announcing it had summoned Kushner to look Monday astatine Quai d'Orsay, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and that his allegations "are unacceptable."
"France firmly rejects these allegations," the connection obtained by CBS News said. "The emergence successful antisemitic acts successful France since October 7, 2023, is simply a world we profoundly regret and against which the French authorities are afloat mobilized, arsenic specified acts are intolerable."
The French ministry besides said Kushner's allegations "run antagonistic to planetary law," citing the "obligation not to interfere successful the interior affairs of states" successful the 1961 Vienna Convention of Diplomatic Relations.
"They besides autumn abbreviated of the prime of the transatlantic concern betwixt France and the United States and of the spot that indispensable prevail betwixt allies," the connection said.
The White House and U.S. State Department did not instantly respond to messages seeking comment. The summoning of the ambassador is simply a ceremonial and nationalist announcement of displeasure.
Kushner, a real-estate developer, is the begetter of President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The contents of the missive were not released.
The dustup follows Macron's rejection this past week of accusations from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that France's volition to recognize a Palestinian state is fueling antisemitism.
France is location to the largest Jewish colonisation successful Western Europe, with an estimated 500,000 Jews. That's astir 1% of the nationalist population.
The diplomatic discord comes arsenic French-U.S. relations person faced tensions this twelvemonth amid Trump's commercialized war. Under a decree signed by Mr. Trump past month, planetary goods that were antecedently exempt from U.S. tariffs — those valued nether $800 — volition beryllium taxable to import duties from Aug. 29.
France volition articulation respective postal services astir Europe connected Monday successful suspending the shipment of galore packages to the U.S. amid a deficiency of clarity implicit caller import duties.
The 2 allies are besides divided implicit the aboriginal of U.N. peacekeepers successful Lebanon. France successful peculiar has objected to the U.S. propulsion to upwind down the peacekeeping cognition known arsenic UNIFIL, with a ballot connected the contented acceptable for the extremity of the period by the U.N. Security Council.
France and the U.S. person besides been divided connected enactment for Ukraine successful its warfare with Russia, but the divided has eased with Mr. Trump expressing enactment for information guarantees and a lukewarm meeting with Macron and different European leaders astatine the White House past week.
Mr. Trump astatine the extremity of his archetypal word arsenic president pardoned Charles Kushner, who pleaded blameworthy years earlier to taxation evasion and making amerciable run donations.
His lad Jared is simply a erstwhile White House elder advisor to Trump who is joined to Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka.
Margaret Brennan contributed to this report.
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