FILE PHOTO: Stephan Brandner, member of the German parliament from the Alternative for Germany (AfD), arrives for a plenary session in Berlin, Germany, January 31, 2018. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - German lawmakers on Wednesday ousted a member of the far-right opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) as head of a parliamentary committee after he made comments widely condemned as anti-Semitic.
The unprecedented move highlights growing concern about radicalism in the ranks of the AfD, which swept into the federal parliament for the first time in the 2017 election amid public anger over Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door migrant policy.
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