A high-ranking official in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's
bureau met with representatives of the radical, anti-Zionist Neturei Karta
haredi group on International Holocaust Day last week.
The official met with four members of the group in Berlin
when they were protesting the existence of the State of Israel and the Zionist
exploitation of the Holocaust for political reasons.
Ynet revealed that the official is a department head in the
chancellor's bureau, and against convention met with them openly.
Members of Neturei Karta confirmed that the purpose of the meeting
was to make it clear to the Germans that Zionism doesn't represent Judaism.
The Neturei Karta delegation included two Holocaust
survivors, Moshe Dov and Chezkel Klein, as well as spokesman Rabbi Yisroel
Dovid Weiss, who said during the meeting that the "Holocaust was a divine
punishment for Jews because Zionists didn't want to follow God and wanted to
turn into independents."
Weiss said to the official that about 10% of Jews belong to
the anti-Zionist movement.
In recent years, officials in Merkel's bureau have worked to
undermine the special connection between Israel and Germany in order to free
Germany from the historical responsibility for the Holocaust.
The meeting, reported on in the leftist German paper Neues
Deutschland, was not on condition of secrecy.
The Neturei Karta in the past has attended Iranian events
denying the Holocaust, led by former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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