The leader of the French National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, visits a memorial for the victims and hostages of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, in Israel, on March 26, 2025, near Kibbutz Re'im, in southern Israel. (Credit: Jack Guez/AFP)
In his essentially symbolic role, the Israeli president took a stand. Isaac Herzog decided not to host the opening evening of the government's conference on anti-Semitism, organized on March 26 and 27 in Jerusalem, due to the controversies surrounding the expected presence of several representatives of European far-right parties known for their past anti-Semitic or denialist stances, such as France's National Rally (RN), Spain's Vox party, the Sweden Democrats and Hungary's Fidesz. A first for Israel, which had long boycotted such parties. "Benjamin Netanyahu's government is likely the first to give the impression that cooperation with certain European far-right parties is possible," said Jakub Wondreys, a researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the Dresden University of...
In his essentially symbolic role, the Israeli president took a stand. Isaac Herzog decided not to host the opening evening of the government's conference on anti-Semitism, organized on March 26 and 27 in Jerusalem, due to the controversies surrounding the expected presence of several representatives of European far-right parties known for their past anti-Semitic or denialist stances, such as France's National Rally (RN), Spain's Vox party, the Sweden Democrats and Hungary's Fidesz. A first for Israel, which had long boycotted such parties. "Benjamin Netanyahu's government is likely the first to give the impression that cooperation with certain European far-right parties is possible," said Jakub Wondreys, a researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the Dresden University of...
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