Emmanuel Macron’s growing doctrine of Israeli companies involved in the war in Gaza

He changed his mind. The aim, according to him, is to ease diplomatic tensions with Israel. It was almost 4 pm, Tuesday, November 11, when Emmanuel Macron decided to support Israeli companies, temporarily forgetting the doctrine he himself had established a year earlier. Beyond these questions, he told his troops, to implement the slightest boycott of companies in the Hebrew State registered at the Milipol Paris internal security and safety exhibition, which will be held, from November 18 to 21, in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis).

However, the French government has established a principle, effective from spring 2024, aimed at banning Israeli companies active in the war in Gaza from trade fairs in France. These rules led French authorities to ban the participation of Israeli industrialists in the World Defense and Security Exhibition, Eurosatory, in June 2024, to block their presence at the Euronaval exhibition, in November of the same year, and to install large black panels on the stands of Israeli companies present at Le Bourget, in the spring. The situation in the Palestinian enclave, “morally unacceptable”, requires marking “disagreement” And ” distance “François Bayrou, prime minister at the time, argued on 16 June.

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