A visit to Israel by a parliamentary delegation from the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, which had been in doubt, will take place in September as scheduled, the chairperson of the legislative body told reporters this week.
The problems which had surrounded the visit have been resolved, said Ute Erdsiek-Rave.
The Israeli Embassy in Bonn had informed the Parliament, which meets in the port city of Kiel, that members of the extreme right-wing German People’s Union (DVU) would not be welcome in Israel. After several days of hesitation and embarrassing talk of canceling the trip, the DVU members dropped out of the delegation.
The DVU is headed by publisher Gerhard Frey, widely regarded as a neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier who has campaigned for years against the “Auschwitz lies.”
It polled 6.3 percent of the vote in the April 5 regional elections, to become the third-largest party in the north German state.
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