Also notable was the list of people who pulled out of associating with the conference – including the United Kingdpm’s apolitical Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, along with organizations who make combating antisemitism their bread and butter, such as the Anti-Defamation League
In an attempt to stem the tide of officials boycotting the conference, Israeli President Isaac Herzog offered a compromise: a private meeting with world Jewish leaders at his home the night before the main event, without those controversial figures (which the Post attended) — Stop! catering to theradicals
Politicians from across Europe attended Chikli’s gathering
But one who was supposed to – Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina – was disinvited after an international arrest warrant was issued just hours before he was scheduled to speak