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“When Milorad Dodik arrived at the late March to attend the International Conference on anti-Semitism in Jerusalem, he was under the states of the concentrance of his own country – Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Eli Tauber, a historian and a prominent member of the Jewish community in BiH, convicted that they were supposed to know who they were to call the platform to spread their own narration about Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tauber didn’t make a mistake.
Shortly after reaching the conference in Jerusalem, the organizers ‘forced him to voluntarily leave the set’, allegedly due to the expected Interpol’s arrest or extradition request. He later returned to the conference. After that, Dodik complained that in Jerusalem felt the ‘undesirable’ and treated him ‘as an intruder’. Still, he did not return home immediately, afraid of an international arrest order. Instead, Dodik traveled to Moscow to his twenty-sixth meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who remains one of his strongest international allys. He returned to Bosnia only after he learned that Interpol’s ‘red warrant’ did not enter into force.
For many in Bosnia, this event sets a frightening question: Is the fugitive stronger than the Bosnian state? Dodik has been advocating the entity of the entity Republika Srpska for years and its connection to neighboring Serbia. Among the Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks, his constant invocation of the war again woke up fears from the possible outbreak of new bloodshed.
The anti-Semitism conference in Jerusalem was not the first time that Dodik uses Israeli connections for political benefits. In 2021. He appointed the Israeli Historian Gideon Greif to lead the Commission that denied the genocide in Srebrenica, which is why Germany canceled the allocation of its highest Greif recognition. Earlier this year, Dodik hired Marca Zella, President of the Republican Overseas Israel, as a foreign lobbyist in order to influence the abolition of U.S. sanctions to him and the Republika Srpska leadership. Dodik’s visit to Jerusalem had very little to do with the fight against anti-Semitism. It was another calculated tactic to wash their past and gain moral protection from the state that cynically praises, while at the same time denying the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. Years.
Giving a platform to fugitive that glorifies war criminals and expands Islamophobic hatred, Israel compromises its own fight against anti-Semitism on a global scene. Supporting Dodik, Israel gives legitimacy to the notorious genocide and is classified with the leading European non-liberal democracies and autocracy like Serbia, Hungary and Russia, which claims to protect them, “says Samir Beharić.
(Vijesti.ba)
