“When Mr. Felix Klein accepted the call a few months ago, he was not familiar with who he would be able to attend the conference.” It was said from the RSE Office.
The conference, among others, were called French bars of the Party National Gathering (RN), Argentine President Javier Mili, but also Milorad Dodik, President of the Entity Republika Srpska.
Dodik, who almost regularly denies the genocide in Srebrenica and who is on the list of sanctioned persons in the US and the United Kingdom, is listed on the official conference website as one of the speakers.
It is a two-day event organized by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora. It was announced as a set that will bring together hundreds of experts and activists for a common dialogue about facing contemporary anti-Semitism.
“The conference will gather government officials, leaders of public opinion from Israel and abroad, civil society organization active in the area, Jewish communities, research institutes, academics, students and others,” Official website.
‘What will Dodik over there?’
“What’s he going to do there?” Eli Tauber founder “Hagad”, the historian and member of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
For RSE, he says those who called him had to know who he is and what he is doing.
“If they overlooked it on purpose or accidentally, I don’t go into that, then the fault is totally theirs,” he evaluates.
Also, it is considered how Dodik’s goal is to present things in BiH as he wants, including the highest officials from the RS in which they claim that in BiH, the HAMAS support is in the Federation of BiH.
It does not agree that Dodik is a place at all where it talks about anti-Semitism.
“What we fear is how he will perform and what he will say. I don’t need to think about that, he will definitely take advantage of whether I would like to turn to Islam, according to the state. It is a fantastic chance for him,” Tauber said.
Information on Dodik’s participation in the conference in Jerusalem appeared in the days when Dodik expects the hearing in the State Prosecutor’s Office for the suspicion that “attacked the Constitutional Order of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
Dodik also faces criticism from the US and EU due to separatist and secessional moves regarding the adoption of the RS Constitution, as well as for insistence of anti-Kosovo laws and protection and the Court of BiH and the High Judicial Council (HJPC) of the RS.
From the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora and the fight against anti-Semitism, they did not respond to the request of the RSE for comment on why Dodik, Negator genocide in Srebrenica, was invited to a conference.
The speakers at the conference will, as announced, to be Israeli Prime Minister and President, Benjamin Netanyahu and Isaac Herzog.
Called right-handed from France
Earlier, AFP published the text about “the leader of the French end right who will visit Israel”, describing it as an unprecedented event.
It is Jordan Bardelli, the leader of the French end right party national gathering (RN), which is planned as one of the speakers.
The conference will also attend Bardellina colleagues, MPs in the European Parliament Marion Marechal, Nećavnik Marina Le Pen, leading a separate Landscape Movement, AFP reported.
“Jordan Bardella will hold a speech on the increase in anti-Semitism in France from 7. October,” said the source close to Bardelli for AFP, confirming the Report in the Le Figaro newspaper.
From the attack of the Palestinian militant group of Hamas on Israel 7. October 2023, RN tries to show as a rampart against anti-Semitism.
As a national front (FN), the party founded the father of Marine Le Pen, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who passed away earlier this year and was known for his anti-Semitic statements.
Marine Le Pen was determined to distinguish the movement from the legacy of his father, renaming the party in Rn.
It is now running RN dealers in the French Parliament and is impatient to run again in the 2027 presidential elections.
Jean-Marie Le Pen was 1987. said the Nazi gas chambers were used to exterminate Jews “just detail in the history of World War II.”
Israel also plans to “special visits” for two representatives in the European Parliament, “Southern and northern borders of Israel to better understand the geopolitical landscape”.
This is the first time that people from the French far right is invited to this type of conference.
In November 2023. President Emmanuel Macron attacked RN, not appointing him, accusing the movement to “claims to support our compatriots of the Jewish faith by confiscating the dismissal of Muslims with the support of Jews.”
(Vijesti.ba)
