Jewish groups in Brooklyn agreed to drop their protest against the participation of an Austrian extremist in the New York City marathon after the politician agreed to meet with them. Jorg Haider, who will meet with Jewish leaders Monday after running in the marathon Sunday, told a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington last week that “we are aware of the cruelty of the Holocaust, and therefore I think it’s necessary to make clear that my party especially abhors totally what Hitler and his Nazi regime has promoted and done.” In the past, Haider, the head of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party, has praised Hitler and member of the Nazi SS.
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