French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal attacked France’s left-wing politicians on Monday night for their criticism of Israel amid the war in Gaza.

As a guest of honor at at an annual dinner held by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) — an organization that lobbies the government on Jewish issues — Attal said the far-left should be ashamed for encouraging the stark rise in antisemitism in the last seven months because “it takes us back to the dark times when we saw that such actions can lead to a great disaster.” ...

“How can we say that Israeli society is overreacting” to the horrors committed by Hamas terrorists who “shouted drunkenly with happiness ‘Death to the Jews'” and called their families to boast of their crimes? Attal asked.

He then criticized those trying to teach Israel “moral lessons” on the way the country wages its war in Gaza after October 7.