Andrzej Duda on the value of a sovereign nation state
Andrzej Duda will take part in the Jerusalem conference "together with the management of the Heritage Foundation", and in his speech he will speak, among others: about "the value of a sovereign nation state and the Three Seas Initiative as a forum for cooperation of such states in Europe," Paprocka added.
The conference program on the organizer's website states that Duda will speak during the plenary session "The Meaning of October 7", along with, among others, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Shikli.
Three years ago, on October 7, Palestinian Hamas invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing 1,200 people. It was the largest terrorist attack in Israel's history and the beginning of the still unfinished war in the Gaza Strip.
"Visiting expert with outstanding achievements"
The Heritage Foundation is an influential, conservative American think tank close to the environment of US President Donald Trump. Duda joined this institution in January as a "visiting expert with outstanding achievements."
The conference in Jerusalem is organized by the Edmund Burke Foundation, an American think tank founded in 2019 and led by Israeli conservative philosopher Joram Hazoni. Since then, the organization has held a series of conferences in the United States and Europe. They participated, among others: US Vice President J.D. Vance, former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and British politician Nigel Farage.
The British daily "The Guardian" wrote on Tuesday that this year's conference is one of the most important recent meetings bringing together Israeli nationalists, American Christian nationalists and representatives of the European radical right.
In turn, Israeli Channel 14 presented the conference as a meeting of key figures of the international conservative movement that wants to create an ideological alternative to liberalism and strengthen cooperation between national-conservative groups of Western countries.
Who is attending the conference?
Among the Israeli conference participants is Finance Minister Bezalel Smotricz. He is the leader of the far-right Religious Zionism party. In 2025, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway placed Smotrich under sanctions for inciting violence against Palestinians. The program also included the chief rabbi of the city of Safed, Shmuel Eliyahu, who spoke about the use of a nuclear bomb in the Gaza Strip in 2023.
The conference is also attended by representatives of the European right, including: former head of German counterintelligence Hans-Georg Maassen, whom the CDU party tried to remove from its ranks for statements typical of anti-Semitic circles and supporters of conspiracy theories.
The speakers also include Harald Vilimsky from the Austrian far-right FPOe party. For years, Israel has avoided contacts with the group that has its roots in the former Nazi community. However, this policy began to change - in January, Vilimsky was received by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
NatCon organizer Joram Halony refused to allow former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson to participate in the conference, the Jerusalem Post reported in September.
Hazona accused him of having become a place for spreading anti-Semitic content. Carlson has recently become one of the most outspoken critics of Israel and US policy towards this country on the American right.
