Amid ongoing “Qatargate” revelations at home, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to take a break from the scandal and flew to Budapest, where he was greeted with good news: Hungary is leaving the International Criminal Court.  Netanyahu is meeting with his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, at a time when Israel is tying itself to the European nationalist right more than ever before. In recent weeks, Israel’s Foreign Ministry decided to begin engaging with three such parties, the best-known of which is France’s National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen. Israel's Diaspora Ministry hosted a conference on combating antisemitism last week, to which it invited National Rally’s other leader, Jordan Bardella. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, U.K. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and others pulled outof the event in protest. Jerusalem’s latest outreach to the European right has been buttressed by Washington doing the same.
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