 Blumenthal and Canadian-Israeli journalist David Sheen were invited by Inge Höger and Annette Groth, members of The Left (Die Linke) party, to speak with them in the German parliament, the Bundestag, with the meeting being scheduled for November 12, 2014.Blumenthal and Steen stated that Höger and Groth's party colleague Gregor Gysi, tried to cancel the meetings on the basis that Blumenthal and Sheen held radical views on Israeli settlements, while Gysi wished to dissociate the Left Party from anti-Israel campaigning.Blumenthal reported in a later article that Volker Beck of the Green Party considers Blumenthal's work "consistently anti-semitic", while Benjamin Weinthal accused him of the "public abuse of Jews".