Hungary
“There are 90,000 people that are still waiting for somebody to reach out to them,” Rabbi Shlomo Köves said of Hungary’s Jewish community.
Conservative commentator Dave Rubin told JNS he’s confident about the Jewish state’s future: “I’m pretty sure God’s on our side.”
U.S. President Donald Trump’s rise offers a rare opportunity to break global elite’s stranglehold on Brussels, conference participants said.
The conference is hosted by the Budapest-based Center for Fundamental Rights, perhaps the most prominent conservative group in Hungary.
“We feel responsible for the security and prosperity of all European Jewish communities, as European Jewish life is part of our common European heritage,” said János Bóka.
Budapest has begun a year-long withdrawal from the court after condemning its actions as political and pledging support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel.
“Countries of moral clarity should take an example from Hungary and withdraw from the ICC,” the Israeli prime minister wrote.
A senior Israeli official said that the government is engaged in advanced negotiations with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to achieve justice for Holocaust victims by returning their property to Hungarian Holocaust survivors who are still alive.
Balázs Orbán, Hungary’s lead political adviser, told JNS that Budapest and Jerusalem are fighting back against globalist “neoliberal values” and countering with an “era of sovereignty.”
The meeting is expected to focus on key issues, including the effort to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas, the completion of Israel’s military objectives in Gaza and the implications of the newly imposed U.S. tariff regime on Israeli exports.
The meeting comes amid an IDF offensive in the Gaza Strip and growing concerns about Iran’s nuclear project.
Nor would any other E.U. member do so, assesses Bart De Wever, whose country’s previous government joined South Africa’s anti-Israel genocide lawsuit.
