The war of words raging between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron since the president announced France would recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September has rapidly morphed into a feud over Macron's response to the surge of antisemitism in France.

The French president personally responded to a letter from the Israeli prime minister, sent on August 17, in which Netanyahu expressed his concern about 'the alarming rise of…

French president rejects Israeli prime minister’s accusations that France is fuelling antisemitism