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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosts then-German opposition leader Friedrich Merz in Jerusalem, March 21, 2023. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.
German support for Israel is fading
Thomas Paine dismissed the “summer soldiers” and “sunshine patriots” who wavered on the American struggle for independence during “the times that try men’s souls.” Germany should avoid adopting a similar mindset.
Ben Cohen
May 30, 2025
Alice Weidel (center), federal chairwoman and candidate for chancellor of the AfD, celebrates with party federal chairperson Tino Chrupalla (left) as they react to the exit poll results at AfD headquarters in Berlin, on Feb. 23, 2025. Photo by Soren Stache-Pool/Getty Images.
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.
Yossi Lempkowicz
May 5, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosts then-German opposition leader Friedrich Merz in Jerusalem, March 21, 2023. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.
Germany’s conservatives claim victory in national election
Although the far-right AfD won 152 seats and would give CDU leader Friedrich Merz a comfortable 360-seat majority, he has already declared he won't form a coalition with the party. 
JNS Staff
Feb. 24, 2025
Elon Musk at the Ira C. Eaker Distinguished Speaker Presentation at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., on April 7, 2022. Photo by Trevor Cokley via Wikimedia Commons.
Germans have ‘too much focus on guilt,’ Elon Musk says
The billionaire also praised the AfD party in an address he delivered remotely at one of its rallies.
Jan. 26, 2025
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk ahead of a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024. Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images.
Musk and Vance’s Germany comments and learning history’s lessons
Endorsements of the far-right AfD are misguided; still, those who draw conclusions from Angela Merkel’s historic immigration blunder are realists, not fascists.
Jonathan S. Tobin
Dec. 26, 2024
Roland Hartwig. Source: X/Roland Hartwig.
Staffer to far-right AfD leader in Germany fired after neo-Nazi meeting
Roland Hartwig reportedly discussed a “master plan” to deport millions from Germany, such as migrants and “unassimilated citizens.”
Jan. 17, 2024
Alternative for Germany politician Robert Sesselmann. Source: Twitter.
German far-right party celebrates first governing post win
The Alternative for Germany candidate won the vote for country executive in an eastern state.
June 26, 2023
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Credit: Pixabay.
Germany’s far-right comes to Yad Vashem
We should have few illusions about the AfD, and, indeed, its co-thinkers and sister parties elsewhere in Europe, but we should not disdain them automatically.
Ben Cohen
May 12, 2023
AfD politician Holger Winterstein on one of the 2,711 stone slabs at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Oct. 8, 2022. Source: Twitter.
German extremist ‘dances’ on Holocaust memorial
The Israeli ambassador in Berlin, Ron Prosor, condemned far-right politician Holger Winterstein for his disrespectful behavior.
Oct. 12, 2022