Shortly after a source told JNS that American Jewish leaders would have declined French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to meet in New York even if it wasn’t a conflict with Rosh Hashanah, the French Parliament voted 364-194 on Monday to oust François Bayrou as its prime minister, collapsing the current government.
“I think the organizations, for the most part, would not have participated,” the source told JNS of meeting with Macron in New York during the United Nations General Assembly. “The guy has a 15% popularity rating in France. It’s not our job to help him out.”
Macron has also said that France intends to recognize a Palestinian state during the U.N. meeting in New York. Israel and others have said that such a decision rewards Hamas for its Oct. 7 terror attacks.
“Next time, Emmanuel Macron, before going out to proclaim Narnia as an independent state, you’d do well to check what’s happening at home,” stated Amichai Chikli, Israeli minister for diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, in French.
Jonathan Schanzer, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, stated that “a government that can’t sustain itself backs recognition of another government that cannot sustain itself. The league of dysfunctional nations.”
Bayrou will reportedly present his resignation to Macron on Tuesday.
Macron’s office stated that he will accept the resignation and name a new prime minister in the “coming days.” France’s next prime minister will be its fifth in fewer than two years.
Also on Monday, Macron condemned the terror attack in what he called “East Jerusalem” and referred to a “spiral of violence.”
