A court in Germany is set to rule this week on whether the anti-globalist, anti-immigration party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) can be designated as a suspected extremist organisation, in what is seen as another attempt to delegitimise the party which is riding high in the polls amid voter disenchantment with the policies of the left-liberal coalition government.
With past and ongoing attempts by Germany’s political establishment to diminish the support base of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) having failed, Germany’s highly politicized domestic intelligence agency is stepping up its efforts to deal a death blow to the country’s second-largest party.
Plans to stamp the entire AfD party with the ‘extremist’ label come ahead of critical elections in East Germany and at the European level, where the AfD is poised to place first—by a large margin—in Saxony, Brandenburg, and Thuringia, and second in EU parliamentary elections.
Anna Leisten is cheerful, young and radical. That’s how she appears in the many images she’s posted on Instagram, at least.
She’s one of the best-known faces of Germany’s Junge Alternative (JA), or Young Alternative, the youth wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Her social media profile says she can be anything “from a braid-wearing sweetie pie to a forged-iron soldier.”
As a part of her ongoing oppression campaign targeting the political opposition, Germany’s activist interior minister has announced that the state will take action to ban the assembly of ‘right-wing extremist’ groups—namely the ascendent AfD, its exponents, and any other group she considers a threat to the left-liberal order.
The radical measures, set to be implemented as a part of Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser’s 13-step plan to combat the so-called ‘extreme right,’ have been revealed by an information request submitted to the Federal Ministry of the Interior by the German portal Apollo News.
Europe — at least Western Europe; there may be hope yet for certain rogue Eastern European nations like Poland or Hungary — has fully abandoned any remnants of Enlightenment or Renaissance values.
On the road to techno-totalitarianism, Germany’s #1 SS officer, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, has announced an “early recognition unit” that will “detect far-right and foreign disinformation campaigns as early as possible.”
The managing director of the disinformation-peddling media outlet Correctiv met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz days before the ‘secret’ Potsdam meeting, and the publication’s subsequent, grossly deceptive reporting on the gathering.
The outlet’s ‘investigative reporting’ from the meeting—in which it spread brazen lies about a non-existent Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) plan to deport millions of German citizens with migration backgrounds—propelled a wave of anti-AfD demonstrations across Germany and prompted calls for the traffic light coalition to ban the increasingly popular insurgent party.
Both the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and the right-wing, antiglobalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) made significant gains in elections held on Sunday, February 11th, in Berlin. Newly released opinion polls also suggest that Germany has veered sharply to the right, despite multiple attempts by the leftist government to stigmatise the AfD.
Recently orchestrated demonstrations against the ‘far right’ in Berlin were claimed by the media to show public opinion opposing the AfD—but the election results tell a different story.
The managing director of Correctiv, the self-proclaimed “independent investigative journalism network” that recently ran a disinformation piece against the AfD—falsely accusing the party of planning to deport millions of Germans with migrant backgrounds—met with officials from the federal government on numerous occasions, apparently to “exchange ideas” on what coverage is desirable.
Correctiv’s false reporting—deliberate or not—on what has come to be known as the “Potsdam Meeting” precipitated a wave of anti-AfD demonstrations across Germany and prompted calls for the left-liberal traffic coalition to initiate banning proceedings against the increasingly popular party.
A German administrative court on Monday ruled that the youth wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) may be classified by Germany’s domestic intelligence service as a “certified right-wing extremist endeavor.”
In the decision announced on Tuesday, an administrative court in the western city of Cologne rejected an injunction by the AfD and its “Junge Alternative”(JA), or Young Alternative, which sought to remove the classification.
The ruling this week is also open to appeal at a higher court.
A left-wing German publication that falsely accused the nationalist AfD party of planning to “deport millions of Germans with a migrant background,” has come under fire for altering its story—again.
As we previously reported, Correctiv, a partly Soros-funded investigative website, made explosive claims earlier this month of a top-level meeting between AfD officials and members of the European ‘ethnocultural transnational’ Identitarian Movement—joined by a small number of officials from the centre-right CDU—alleging the existence of a right-wing plot to deport millions of migrants, including those with German citizenship. The article resulted in hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets around Germany to protest against ‘far-right extremism.’
The much-touted media hit piece that propelled a wave of anti-AfD protests in Germany— including calls for the party itself to be banned—has come under fire this week as one of its lead journalists described heavy exaggeration in the German press.
Anette Dowideit, the deputy editor of the left-wing Correctiv media outlet, in an interview on national TV on Sunday evening, stated that, contrary to media coverage, there was no direct talk of mass deportations—’remigration’— in a meeting between nationalist migration-critical Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party and key figures on the radical right.
This raises serious questions about the credibility of the reporting, especially given its role in prompting protests and calls for political repression.
“We must not tolerate” millions of Germans voting for the AfD, the CDU party leader said.
Schleswig-Holstein Minister-President Daniel Günther of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) supports banning the anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)—Germany’s second most popular party and the CDU’s principal competitor—declaring that allowing citizens to vote for the party must not be tolerated.
The comments, from the executive who has governed Germany’s northernmost state since 2017 alongside the left-liberal Green party, came during an interview with Cicero, a Berlin-based political and cultural magazine, that was published over the weekend.
Muslim religious leaders trained in Germany
Osman Soyer is a religious affairs officer who was sworn into office this month in the Sehitlik Mosque in Berlin’s Neukölln district. He is one of 28 young men and women who have been trained as “religious representatives” by DITIB, Germany’s largest Islamic organization. They are involved in a variety of pastoral duties; this can also include acting as imams, but the job description is broader.
Soyer has been working as an Islamic religious representative in Alfter, a town near Bonn in western Germany, for a few months now. Community outreach, he says, is his top priority. It includes a wide range of activities: “I teach pupils, I’m a prayer leader, preacher and pastor. We also go to weddings, I do funerals.”
The German left is so terrified of the AfD’s rise that there are calls to ban the party much like Hitler banned the opposition because it’s the AfD who are the fascists and these are entirely spontaneous demonstrations.
Germany sees second day of large anti far-right protests
After two days of mass protests, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of German cities on Sunday to demonstrate against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and its anti-immigration agenda.
From Friday through the weekend, demonstrations were called in about 100 locations across Germany. On Sunday, rallies were held in major cities such as Cologne, Munich and Berlin. Several other German cities, including Cottbus, Dresden and Chemnitz in the east, also planned to hold demonstrations.
Police in Munich said that some 80,000 people participated in the march, while organizers put the figure at 200,000. The march had to be called off due to overcrowding.
The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is planning to transform Germany into an authoritarian state similar to Russia, the country’s vice-chancellor and economics minister, has warned, tacitly backing calls to ban the party.
Speaking a week after it emerged that party members had participated in a meeting to discuss mass deportations, allegedly including German citizens, Robert Habeck said the danger the party posed to democracy had been gravely underestimated.
The German Centre-Left wants to ban the Afd party because they’re the pending authoritarian menace. Okey Dokey Mr. Goebells.
It sounds like a scene from a dystopian TV drama: in a country hotel west of Berlin, far-right politicians met neo-Nazi activists and sympathetic businesspeople to discuss a ‘masterplan’ for Germany that involves the forced deportations of millions from the country. But this is no fiction. According to reports in the German media, such a meeting took place last November. These revelations will do little to calm the tumultuous political waters in Germany.
Around two dozen people met at the picturesque lakeside hotel in Potsdam, according to the news outlet Correctiv, which published a detailed report of its undercover investigation. Given the explosive content discussed in speeches between meals, secrecy was paramount for the organisers. Members were invited by a letter seen by Correctiv and the Guardian. The stated purpose of the meeting: the presentation of a ‘masterplan’, presented by ‘none other’ than Martin Sellner.
