Oh look, it's Dietrich

Yes. This is particularly relevant because France has a very solid history of anti-semitism in the modern world. It was the Dreyfus affair, in France, which led Theodor Herzl to write Der Judenstaat, the declaration of political Zionism that started the Zionist movement in western Europe and led to Israel being created. The spectacle of how a modern enlightened Democracy could erupt in hatred of Jews is what did it. And then in WWII, France's Vichy government and a large proportion of the French people cooperated with the Nazis, as a result of which the very large French Jewish community was sent off to the camps and mostly exterminated. This history isn't in the forefront of most Americans' minds, but many Jews do remember it, and the specter of anti-semitism rising again in France is particularly scary.