Orbán, Trump Admin Defend AfD After ‘Extremist’ Designation

Orbán, Trump Admin Defend AfD After ‘Extremist’ Designation

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has been officially designated a ‘proven right-wing extremist’ party and ‘not compatible’ with a free democracy by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency over the weekend. The decision grants the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) expanded surveillance powers to investigate the party, which currently holds the largest support base among German parties, according to every credible pollste…

On the penultimate working day, Interior Minister Faeser published the BfV classification of the AfD as "secured right-wing extremist." That raises questions.

AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence - European Jewish Congress

Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution. “The ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order,” the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement. The far-right AfD had already been placed under observation for suspected extremism in Ge…

1. ARD and ZDF face headwinds (t-online.de, Steven Sowa) ARD and ZDF are facing the difficult decision of whether and how to continue inviting representatives of the party to their talk shows following the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution's classification of the AfD as "confirmed right-wing extremist." The German Journalists' Association is calling for "the nationalist, racist, and right-wing extremist intentions of this par…

Germany’s AfD party labeled ‘extremist’ by intel agency

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution cited "xenophobic, anti-minority, Islamophobic" rhetoric among the reasons for the designation.The post Germany’s AfD party labeled ‘extremist’ by intel agency appeared first on JNS.org.

Germany’s AfD Designation Impact Hinges on How Courts, Voters, and International Actors Respond

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), officially classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organization. This designation, based on a 1,100-page report, cites the party’s ethnically and ancestrally defined concept of “the people,” which the BfV says devalues entire population groups, […] The post Germany’s AfD Designation I…