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Bardella responded by stating he protested in Paris after the October 7 Hamas attacks, unlike Macron.","category":"Politics","area":"European Union","publishedAt":"2026-09-30T18:25:12.315Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-09-30T17:47:30.139Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T18:25:12.315Z","readTime":"2 min read","scores":{"trust":42,"critic":60,"hype":41,"notes":{"trust":"Central claims attributed to named bodies, but no named sources or documents were cited.","critic":"Reporting includes quotes from affected parties and names specific dates and locations.","hype":"Headlines promise more than the body delivers, with some sensationalism."}},"tags":["#EmmanuelMacron","#JordanBardella","#Antisemitism","#FrenchPolitics","#NationalRally"],"entities":["Emmanuel Macron","Jordan Bardella","National Rally","Hamas"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["French President Emmanuel Macron has labelled alleged anti-Semitic comments attributed to Jordan Bardella as 'very serious and unacceptable'.","Jordan Bardella, leader of the National Rally, responded to Macron by highlighting his participation in a Paris protest after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks.","Bardella stated that Macron did not participate in the same protest, which took place on the streets of Paris.","The alleged comments were reportedly made in private conversations nearly a decade ago."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"French President Emmanuel Macron has described alleged anti-Semitic comments attributed to Jordan Bardella as 'very serious and unacceptable'. The comments are reportedly from private conversations that took place almost a decade ago. In response, Jordan Bardella, the leader of the National Rally party, stated that he had participated in a protest in the streets of Paris following the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. Bardella contrasted his actions with those of President Macron, asserting that the president had not joined the protest."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on protest participation"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Reports agree that Jordan Bardella stated he protested in Paris after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, and that Emmanuel Macron did not. However, one digest specifies that the protest Bardella referred to was a march against anti-Semitism on November 12, 2023, on the streets of Paris. 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