Anti-immigrant lawmakers from the Alternative for Germany party walked out of the Bavarian Parliament on Wednesday after a Jewish leader accused the party of playing down Nazi war crimes, NBC News reported.

“A party is represented here today that disparages those [democratic] values and downplays the crimes of the National Socialists,” Charlotte Knobloch, a Holocaust survivor and president of the Jewish Community in Munich, told the regional assembly.

All but four AfD lawmakers in the Bavarian lower house got up and left the hall as legislators from the other five parties clapped for Knobloch.

The AfD, which rejected charges of racism, entered the Bavarian Parliament for the first time in a regional election last year, winning 22 seats to become the fourth largest party, on a par with the center-left Social Democrats.

The rise of the AfD, which has representatives in all of Germany’s 16 regional assemblies, has alarmed Jewish leaders who accuse it of contributing to a rise in anti-Semitism, the network reported.

“The so-called AfD bases its politics on hate and exclusion and doesn’t abide by our democratic constitution,” Knobloch said in her speech.