Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France, sent his deputy to receive a dressing-down after he sparked the French government’s ire with an editorial that accused President Emmanuel Macron of not doing enough to fight antisemitism.

Foreign Minister Sa'ar weighs in on the dispute, calling France's decision to summon Ambassador Kushner 'the height of hypocrisy,' tells Paris to focus on fighting Jew-hatred

The new American envoy, Charles Kushner, said that France was not doing enough to protect its Jewish citizens, a charge the government in Paris said it “firmly refutes.”