Does Chikli’s meeting with Austria’s FPÖ mark an end to Israel’s boycott of the Nazi-linked party?

Israel's Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli met this week with senior officials from Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), indicating further warming relations between Israel and the party, despite the latter's Nazi roots.The meeting was the first of its kind between an Israeli minister and senior representatives of the party, which remains officially boycotted by Israel.However, it follows a landmark speech by FPÖ chairman Herbert Kickl in September in which he announced the party would unanimously adopt the full IHRA definition. Kickl also defined October 7 as “a crime against humanity, not resistance” and pledged that a government under his leadership would move Austria's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.The speech was praised at the time by Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, who said Kickl's remarks “provide an opportunity to begin substantive, open and candid dialogue.” He also thanked Kickl for his apology to Austria's Jewish citizens, victims and survivors of Nazism, their descendants, and the Jewish people.The FPÖ was founded in 1956 by former Nazis: Its first leader, Anton Reinthaller, had been a senior Nazi official who held the rank of SS Brigadeführer, and his successor, Friedrich Peter, had served as an officer in an SS unit. What does the FPÖ stand for?Since its founding, the FPÖ has moved between nationalist liberalism, far-right politics and populist conservatism.