“Dialogue both with the right and with the left and the centrists of Europe will certainly help ensure that Jewish life here will become more secure and the fight against antisemitism will be carried out even more tightly, firmly and resolutely.
“Without a dialogue – there is always a wall of partition.”
European Jewish Congress president Moshe Kantor said the meeting was “shocking in the extreme”.
"It goes without saying that these people are as unrepresentative of the vast majority of European Jews as this collective of Le Pen's MEPs is of the vast majority of European citizens," he said.
French-born rabbi Levi Matusof resigned his membership of the EJP’s 120-member board shortly after the meeting, which he said was “opportunistic and inappropriate”.
