Riots have engulfed French streets in recent weeks. Thousands have been arrested, and hundreds of businesses and schools have been burned down or forced to close their doors. Mere days before the violence erupted, when French President Emmanuel Macron took the dais at the United Nations, he didn’t rail against the burdensome regulations or the nihilism that has left his nation and others on the continent fractured and lagging in economic growth and political freedom. Instead, Macron spent an inordinate amount of time condemning Israel.
But railing against Israel won’t save France. Indeed, the opposite is true: Historically, fixating on the world’s sole Jewish state often coincides with national decay, and doing so comes at the expense of focusing on solutions to France’s many problems.
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