Israeli ambassador to Germany Jeremey Issacharoff said on Sunday that he would likely avoid any contact with the far-right Alternative for Germany party because of the statements made by its leaders, which he called "highly insulting for Jews, for Israel and for the entire issue of the Holocaust."
Issacharoff told German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur Sunday it was very difficult for him to imagine any interaction with those who felt nostalgia for Germany's past.
Party leader Alexander Gauland has referred to the time of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship and the Holocaust as a "speck of bird poop" in Germany's history, while Björn Höcke, a powerful party leader in the east, suggested it was time for the country to stop atoning for its Nazi past.
