EJP | News | Western Europe | Extreme-right leader wants Israel visit

An eventual visit to Israel by the leader of a powerful Belgian extreme-right party has stirred a new controversy within the local Jewish community. Filip Dewinter, president of the Flemish extreme-right party “Vlaams Belang” (or Flemish Interest) has recently expressed his interest in visiting Israel during the coming year. “I am interested in visiting Israel first of all from a geopolitical point of view. We in Western Europe should realize that our allies are not in the Arab or Muslim world, but rather in Israel,” DeWinter said in an interview with the Israeli daily newspaper “Haaretz”.