Prominent Jewish figures boycott Israel antisemitism event

Several key leaders stayed away because of the inclusion of far-right politicians from Europe.

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Those who declined to attend included Israel's own president and the chief rabbi of the UK, Sir Ephraim Mirvis.

At the conference, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning about the rise in antisemitism.

He said Europe was at risk of allowing antisemitism to go unchecked in a similar way to the years leading up to the Nazi Holocaust.

"Racial antisemitism is inciting a global war against the existence of the Jews as a race that poisons human societies," his own father had written in 1933, Netanyahu said.

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