President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday France was determined to combat the hatred and intolerance that have fueled a sharp rise in anti-Semitism in his country as he met Holocaust survivors during a visit to Israel.
Macron is one of dozens of world leaders attending events at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem to mark the 75-year anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.
"The dark shadow of anti-Semitism is being reborn," Macron told members of the roughly 100,000 French-Israeli citizens. "Anti-Semitism is back. It is here and its cortege of intolerance and hate is here. France won't accept."