On a trip to Israel on March 26 and 27, Marine Le Pen’s lieutenant took part in a conference on anti-Semitism attended by Benjamin Netanyahu and supporters of Donald Trump.
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There’s an advantage to giving off toxic fumes: After having, by his mere presence, provoked the withdrawal of a majority of speakers, Jordan Bardella became, de facto, the star of a conference on anti-Semitism reduced to a gathering of members of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, European far-right parties aspiring to power or having left it, and influencers favorable to the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. All the organizations representing the Jewish community, in Europe and around the world, kept away from the event, as did Israeli President Isaac Herzog. The Labor Party politician distanced himself as much as he could from an undertaking with which he was initially associated.
