The meeting of an Israeli envoy with the leader of an extreme right-wing party in Romania has provoked fierce criticism. Israeli Ambassador Reuven Azar met George Simion, head of the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR), on August 28, according to media reports. The Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem wrote in a statement that two leading AUR party members had glorified "the fascist Romanian Iron Guard movement, which murdered many Jews in Romania during World War II, as national heroes.... We have been informed that both [Holocaust memorial] Yad Vashem and experts from the Foreign Ministry opposed the meeting."
Meeting Of Israeli Envoy With Romanian Ultra-Rightist Criticized
George Simion, head of the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians