The French government banned Israeli defense firms from displaying their products at a naval weapons exhibit next month, evoking a stinging rebuke from Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Israeli companies will be allowed to attend the Euronaval 2024 defense show, set to take place in Paris from Nov. 4-7, but they are barred from setting up stands or showing their military hardware. The move comes after French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this month called for an arms embargo against Israel.

Mr. Gallant called the decision “a disgrace to the French nation and the values of the free world” and said it would aid Israel’s enemies during war.

“France has adopted, and is consistently implementing, a hostile policy towards the Jewish people,” Mr. Gallant said Wednesday on X. “We will continue defending our nation against enemies on seven different fronts and fighting for our future — with or without France.”

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized remarks made by Mr. Macron in which he said that Israel was created by the United Nations, referring to the resolution adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1947 to divide British-controlled Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.

“It was not a U.N. decision that established the State of Israel but the victory that was achieved in the War of Independence with the blood of our heroic fighters, many of whom were Holocaust survivors, including from the Vichy regime in France,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a statement in response to the French president’s comments.

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