German ex-diplomat won’t head Iran trade body after anti-Semitic past exposed

A former German diplomat nominated to head INSTEX, the European body established this year to facilitate trade with Iran while avoiding US sanctions, is forced to resign after his anti-Semitic past surfaces, according to Germany’s BILD daily.

Bernd Erbel, 71, the former German ambassador to Iran and to Iraq, has said that “the Palestinians are the victims of our victims,” according to the report, and has given several interviews to anti-Semite Ken Jebsen who has said the US is “controlled by Jews,” Israel “strives for a final solution for Palestinians and to exterminate them,” and “Freud’s nephew invented the Holocaust as PR.”

2 בנוסף לכך התראיין פעמיים למראיין אנטישמי שאמר בעבר כי "הוא יודע מי המציא את השואה כיחסי ציבור – הנכד של פרויד" "וכי היהודים שולטים בארה"ב ורוצים פתרון סופי לפלסטינים" @kann_newshttps://t.co/xCeYL9iEPA

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