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Is the AfD a threat to Germany? Mehdi Hasan & Maximilian Krah | Head to Head
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In the German intelligence agency's report on the AfD, you were cited hundreds of times by name. They said, 'Your view of humanity is incompatible with the German Constitution.'
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) frequently cited Maximilian Krah's statements in its legal assessment of the AfD, concluding that his ethnocultural concept of humanity violates the human dignity protections of the German Basic Law.
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You were also famously on record saying, quote, 'Not all members of the Nazi SS were criminals.' Something so outrageous that even your own party, they kicked you out of their parliamentary delegation.
Maximilian Krah told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that he would 'never say that anyone who wore an SS uniform was automatically a criminal.' Following the outcry, newly elected AfD MEPs voted to exclude him from their European Parliament delegation in June 2024.
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Marine Le Pen, the French farright leader, said that's too much even for me. And they cut off ties with you.
Following Krah's remarks about the SS, Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) declared a clean break and announced they would no longer sit in the same EU Parliament group (ID) as the AfD.
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Alice Weidel distinguished between Germans and 'passport Germans' (Passdeutsche) in 2019 and defended the use of the term in an interview with Welt in August 2023.
Alice Weidel used the controversial term 'Passdeutsche' in 2019 in a tweet and explicitly defended her use of the term during her Welt TV summer interview in August 2023.
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The manifesto for the state of Saxony-Anhalt calls Islam a culturally alien religion and says Islam does not belong to Germany.
The AfD's national manifesto explicitly declares that 'Islam does not belong to Germany,' and its regional election programs, including that of Saxony-Anhalt, describe Islam as a 'culturally alien religion' ('kulturfremde Religion').
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The AfD may secure their first state premiership in Saxony Anhalt in September.
There was no state election in Saxony-Anhalt in September 2024; the state elections held that month were in Saxony, Thuringia, and Brandenburg. The speaker confused Saxony-Anhalt with Saxony.
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Maximilian Krah wrote that Israelis are great because they are ethnonationalists, whereas current Jews in Germany have nothing to contribute and are mostly left-wing/communist.
In his 2023 book 'Politik von rechts', Krah praised Israel as an admirable ethnonationalist project, while asserting that contemporary German Jews have 'nothing of their own to add' to German culture and are almost exclusively left-wing.
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You did have a Chinese spy working in your office.
In April 2024, Jian G., an aide to German AfD MEP Maximilian Krah, was arrested and charged by German federal prosecutors with spying for a Chinese intelligence service.
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In the European Parliament, you voted against a resolution for China to stop suppressing the Uyghurs.
Krah has repeatedly voted against European Parliament resolutions condemning China's treatment of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, including a December 2020 resolution on forced labor.
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On the 70th anniversary of Chinese rule of Tibet, you congratulated China for being proud of what they achieved in Tibet.
In May 2021, Krah published a video congratulating China on the 70th anniversary of what Beijing officially terms the 'peaceful liberation of Tibet', praising its development.
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You're also vice chair of an EU China lobbying group that disbanded after an investigation into its ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Krah served as vice-chairman of the EU-China Friendship Group, an unofficial parliamentary group that was suspended in 2021 due to concerns over state-backed Chinese influence and undeclared lobbying.
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A study by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation found that one in five AfD supporters tend to agree that rich Jews rule the world, and 6% of AfD supporters show elevated agreement with antisemitic statements compared to 2% of the general population.
A 2023 study by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) on antisemitism in Germany found that 19% (nearly one in five) of AfD voters agreed with the statement 'rich Jews rule the world', and 6% of AfD supporters exhibited a manifest antisemitic worldview compared to 2% of the general public.
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Federal government data shows that antisemitic violence has surged in recent years with far-right Germans responsible for three times as many incidents as Islamists.
German federal police statistics (PMK) consistently attribute the vast majority of registered antisemitic crimes to the far-right (PMK-Rechts), significantly outnumbering incidents attributed to religious/Islamist or foreign ideologies by three-to-one or higher ratios.
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70% of refugees in Germany work in high-skill professions.
Data from Germany's Institute for Employment Research (IAB) shows that while refugee employment rates have risen (reaching 64% after 7-8 years), the majority of employed refugees work in helper (low-skilled) or skilled support roles, with only a small fraction (around 5% to 6%) working in highly skilled or academic professions.
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There is a trial going on of three former AfD members (including one former city councilor and two party members) for plotting to coup the government.
Three former members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party—including Birgit Malsack-Winkemann (a former AfD Bundestag member) and Christian Wendler (a former AfD city councilor in Olbernhau)—went on trial in 2024 as part of the suspected Reichsbürger coup plot led by Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss.
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