His party was founded by a convicted Holocaust denier and a former Nazi officer, but on Thursday evening Jordan Bardella posed for selfies amongst adoring followers in Jerusalem.
Ascending the stage at the International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, the young president of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) must have known already that he was the star attraction.
“Since Oct 7 in particular, we have witnessed the deadly honeymoon between Islamism and the extreme Left,” he told the audience, an incongruous mix of Israeli politicians and other radical Right-wing Europeans.
