France, March 25 -- France's main Jewish association on Monday publicly distanced itself from an unprecedented invitation for two key figures in the French far right to attend a conference this week in Israel on the fight against anti-Semitism.

Jordan Bardella, party leader of the National Rally (RN), and his fellow MEP Marion Marechal, who leads another far-right movement and is the niece of three-time RN presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, have been invited by the Israeli government to attend the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism on March 26 and 27.

Bardella will be the first RN leader to visit Israel while Marechal, also the granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen who co-founded the RN as the National Front (FN), will b...