France will today officially recognise the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. ‘Emmanuel Macron is into performative politics,’ says Pierre Lellouche, who was a (Jewish) minister in Nicolas Sarkozy’s government. Johanna Rolland, who runs the city of Nantes, said it ‘makes sense…in a symbolic gesture of recognition of the state of Palestine’. Many French Jews have come to harbour a bitter resentment towards their president. French Jews have heard that line before.