German far-right politician ‘danced’ on Holocaust memorial October 13, 2022Far-right German politician Holger Winterstein at Holocaust memorial site. (Twitter)(Twitter)German far-right politician ‘danced’ on Holocaust memorial Tweet WhatsApp Email https://worldisraelnews.com/german-far-right-politician-danced-on-holocaust-memorial/ Email Print Ambassador Ron Prosor said that far-right politician Holger Winterstein had brought “shame upon himself and his party.”By Associated PressIsrael’s ambassador in Berlin has slammed a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party for appearing to dance on the country’s Holocaust memorial.Ambassador Ron Prosor tweeted Tuesday that far-right politician Holger Winterstein had brought “shame upon himself and his party.”A picture posted on social media showed Winterstein posing with outstretched arms on one of the stone slabs that form the memorial in Berlin for the more than 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. German media reported that the picture was taken after a protest organized Saturday by Alternative for Germany. The party, known by its German acronym AfD, said it would take action against Winterstein over his “extremely disrespectful behavior.”Winterstein is a county representative in Thuringia.The party’s leader in the state, Bjoern Hoecke, in 2018 called the Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame” and called for Germany to perform a “180-degree turn” when it comes to the way it remembers its past. A party tribunal at the time rejected a bid to have him expelled.Read Barnard College under fire for inviting antisemitic UN official who blamed Israel for Oct. 7 attack to speak AntisemitismGermanyHolocaustRon Prosor