‘Screw you!’: Yair Netanyahu hits back at Macron for backing Palestinian statehood

“Screw you!” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair writes to French President Emmanuel Macron on X after the latter expresses his support for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

Earlier this week, Macron said France might formally recognize a Palestinian state in the coming months.

The younger Netanyahu — a conservative social media activist based in Miami — calls for the independence of a series of territories under French control in response to Macron’s support for Palestinian sovereignty.

While the older Netanyahu has several times distanced himself from his son’s rhetoric, insisting that Yair holds his own beliefs, the prime minister has adopted some of his rhetoric more recently, particularly regarding the existence of a “deep state” in Israel.

Yair is one of a handful of hardline commentators to attack Macron for his post from both the far-left and the far-right who accuse him of ignoring Israel’s “genocide” and “rewarding Palestinian terrorism” respectively.

Screw you! Yes to independence of New Caledonia! Yes to independence to French Polynesia! Yes to independence of Corsica! Yes to independence of the Basque Country! Yes to independence of French Guinea! Stop the neo imperialism of France in west Africa! https://t.co/Vwa3a8fN2c

— Yair Netanyahu???????? (@YairNetanyahu) April 12, 2025