Senior member of Trump's transition team pitching Swedish Political Party with SS legacy to Israel.

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Wednesday December 21, 2016 · 12:42 PM PST

2016/12/21 · 12:42

Parliament member Tzipi Hotovely during The Committee on reality shows at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset on March 09, 2011.photo by Abir Sultan/Flash 90 *** Local Caption *** úåëðéåú äøéàìèé..åòãä..öéôé çåèáìé .... — Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely

According to the Jerusalem Post:

“A Wednesday meeting between Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely and a pro-Israel conservative delegation that included a senior member of Donald Trump’s transition team was scuttled because one of the group’s members is from a far-right political party in Sweden with a neo-Nazi past.

Becky Norton Dunlop, a fellow at Washington’s Heritage Foundation think tank and a senior member of the Trump transition team, said that the entire delegation came to Israel to take part in the seminar because “they are pro-Israel and want to show support for Israel.”

While the Sweden Democrats “may have a history,” she said, “that history is some time ago. It is not the situation with the current leadership of the party.”

The thing I feel most concerned about is that the people who put together the Jerusalem Leaders Summit are looking to build support for Israel because of its representative democracy, its support for the rule of law and its uniqueness in the Middle East,” she said. “Here we are trying to build support for Israel; we think that is important, and that Israel needs to be looking for allies. I am not sure what the Foreign Ministry’s bureaucracy goes through to check these things out, but Kristina is a strong pro-Israel ally in the EU and in Sweden.”

So let me get this straight a senior member of Trumps transition team is lecturing Israel on the benefits of allowing an organization with SS roots, the same organization that was Hitler’s paramilitary bodyguards and directly responsible for the murder of six million people, mainly Jews, to sit at the same table with them to engage in political discourse? Israel are experts at hunting down Nazi’s and SS around the globe, they probably have a little more information related to the Nazi bent of the Sweden Democrats party.

Some added info from Wikipedia, feel free to fact check.

The party's first auditor, Gustaf Ekström, was a Waffen-SS veteran and had been a member of the national socialist party Svensk Socialistisk Samling in the 1940s,[30] and early chairman Anders Klarström had been active in Nordiska rikspartiet ("Nordic Reich Party").[30][31] Early on, the party sought international connections with the National Democratic Party of Germany, the American National Association for the Advancement of White People (founded by David Duke) and publications like the Nazi Nation Europa and Nouvelle École (fr), a newspaper that advocates racial biology.[10]

Senior members of Trumps transition team seem to be in the habit of endorsing, promoting and working with organizations who have legacy ties to the Nazis and SS.

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