Jair Netanyahu, son of the Israeli Prime Minister, spoke to Hungarian public media after arriving in Budapest for the Pro-Israel Summit organised by the Centre for Fundamental Rights. The political influencer praised Viktor Orbán's government, under whose reign – according to him – Hungary has become "a bastion of freedom and Western civilisation," according to Hungarian News Agency MTI.
The right-wing influencer was invited to Hungary by MCC in 2023 and was paid 2.8 million forints (7200 euros) for participating in a one-hour panel discussion. Now he has come to Hungary at the invitation of another pro-government organisation, the Centre for Fundamental Rights. The Israeli Prime Minister's son also told Hungarian National Television that, in his opinion, both Israel and Hungary have become targets of Brussels because the two countries oppose "globalist, anti-nationalist tendencies" and defend their own sovereignty and culture, as well as "our common Judeo-Christian roots."
The leaders of Israel and Hungary maintain good relations with each other. After the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes, Viktor Orbán welcomed the head of government in Budapest. As a member of the ICC, Hungary should have arrested Netanyahu, but on the day of the visit, April 3, the government announced that the country was withdrawing from the international organisation.
Like Jair Netanyahu, Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of US President Donald Trump, also spoke positively about the Hungarian government in April this year when he spoke at a closed-door event in Budapest organised by Portfolio called Trump Business Vision 2025. He said that "Hungary is one of the last bastions of light." According to the US President's son, Hungary and the other countries in the region are like heaven, Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump understand each other very well, and China must be fought against. The younger Trump also met with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó in April.
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