Jacques Attali, President of an NGO promoting microfinance PlaNet Finance and former adviser to the late socialist President Francois Mitterrand, is on the record denying that anti-Semitism exists in France. Said Attali to Haaretz:

It is a problem which does not exist … Bu****it, peanuts, lies … I think it is propaganda, Israeli propaganda … Zero! None whatsoever. It’s a lie.”