The law would make terrorist apologism, denying Israel's existence, and the comparison of Jews or Israel to the Holocaust illegal.
He did however add that, with the war, many might find it hard "not to be antisemitic when you see the destruction caused by the Israeli army in Gaza.”
The boy was called a "dirty Jew" by the attackers, who succeeded in throwing him to the ground and kicking him in the mouth.
Until this weekend, France was hiding behind the posture that it is “just following orders” - just as it did in the 1940s.
Macron reaffirmed his unconditional support for France's Jewish community and emphasized the importance of resolving the Israel-Hamas conflict, including the safe return of the remaining hostages.
A French police officer was injured on Saturday when a blazing car exploded in the car park of a synagogue in the coastal town of La Grande-Motte.
The Paris Police Prefecture said on Thursday that it was looking for a man who verbally harassed an Orthodox Jewish family.
"I don’t want to play with you because you’re a Jew," Jewish children in France are being told as they are pressured to convert to Islam by their peers on the playground.
Levy explained that many of the fears around rising antisemitism were exaggerated, and said that he had never encountered antisemitism himself.
The video shows the effect of antisemitism on French Jews through the eyes of a non-Jewish family friend.