France is summoning U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner after he criticized French President Emmanuel Macron's response to rising antisemitism in the country.

The new American envoy, Charles Kushner, said that France was not doing enough to protect its Jewish citizens, a charge the government in Paris said it “firmly refutes.”

Kushner’s allegations, made in a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, are “unacceptable” and violate a convention that forbids foreign diplomats from interfering in the host country’s affairs,