Germany: Intelligence agency says entire AfD 'extremist' – DW – 05/02/2025
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One of Germany's most popular parties, the AfD, has been designated by the country's domestic intelligence agency as an extremist organization that threatens democracy.

Germany’s spy agency BfV has labeled the entirety of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as an extremist entity.

The BfV domestic intelligence agency, which is in charge of safeguarding Germany’s constitutional order, said the announcement comes after an “intense and comprehensive” examination.

“The ethnicity-and ancestry-based conception of the people that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order,” the BfV said on Friday.

Hopefully this inspires the other parties to to start the process to see the AfD banned. I know the report might not look like much, because of how obvious the findings are. But previous attempts at banning them have failed because such an official report was missing. So maybe our political system starts getting its shit together.

As we say in Germany: Hope dies last

  • SalehEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If the support was for Jewish safety or the safety of Israel as a state they would work for it to return into its 1967 borders and start making ammends to all the people they wronged. Germany could support this even by raising a special tax to help Israel finance the compensation of its victims as Germany is also responsible for the formation of Israel.

    They wont do any of this. They dont care for Jewish safety. Jews that are dissenting the German state ideology get repressed in Germany. They care for claiming that supporting Israel absolves them from all responsibility and to shift the blame for antisemitism in Germany and the world onto Arabs.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      If the support was for Jewish safety or the safety of Israel as a state they would work for it to return into its 1967 borders and start making ammends to all the people they wronged.

      That’s pretty much the German position: The annexations and settlements outside of 1967 Israel are illegal.

      Jews that are dissenting the German state ideology get repressed in Germany.

      It’s more complicated than that because those people aren’t dissenting from the German position, see the link above. They’re just being way more blunt about it. More correct would be “Jews who are dissenting from whatever the Jüdische Allgemeine writes”, i.e. Zionist apologia. I think the technical term for the political situation is “clusterfuck”.