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Brawl breaks out at Holon water park, June 9 2019 (Screen grab via Channel 12 news)
July 5, 2019, 8:55 am
German far-right party claims film of Israel brawl is migrant fight in Stuttgart
Nationalist, anti-immigration AfD tweets film using footage of disturbance at Holon water park while claiming it was migrants fighting at a swimming pool in Germany
By TOI staff
Members of the nationalist German AfD, 'Alternative for Germany', celebrate during the election party in Berlin, Germany, September 24, 2017, after the polling stations for the German parliament elections had been closed. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
September 24, 2017, 11:58 pm
Loathed by Jews, Germany’s far-right AfD loves the Jewish state
Candidates for nationalist Alternative for Germany, derided as anti-Semitic, overwhelmingly profess to hold pro-Israel positions, poll shows
By Raphael Ahren
Election posters of the right extremist NPD (top) and the populist AfD parties for regional elections in Berlin are seen in Berlin's Schoeneweide district on August 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Yann Schreiber)
September 17, 2016, 9:58 am
Berlin fears AfD win will undo efforts against far right
Many in Germany’s left-leaning capital are terrified by likely strong showing for the populist party in Sunday elections
By Yann Schreiber
Frauke Petry, chairwoman of the AfD, points her finger at the gathering of the right-populist AfD (Alternative for Germany) after the closing of the state elections in the German federal states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, March 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
September 12, 2016, 5:48 pm
German politician under fire over call to rehabilitate Nazi race term
Co-chair of right-wing Alternative for Germany condemned for ‘dangerous arson’ after asking that ‘völkisch’ get ‘positive connotation’
By AP and TOI staff
Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)
September 9, 2016, 11:33 am
Prominent neo-Nazi spotted at Israel boycott rally in Berlin
Marc Kluge, a former candidate for far-right NPD party, attends demonstration organized by local BDS chapter
By JTA
Top candidate of the populist right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), Leif-Erik Holm, talks to the media during the regional elections in Barner Stueck, near Klein Trebbow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, eastern Germany, on September 4, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Daniel Bockwoldt)
September 5, 2016, 6:29 am
Rising nationalism boosts Germany’s populist AfD to polls victory
Begun as a eurosceptic party in 2013, the movement has increasingly turned to xenophobia and anger towards asylum-seekers
By Hui Min NEO
Leif-Erik Holm, top candidate of the anti-migrant populists AfD addresses an election results party on September 4, 2016 in Schwerin, north-eastern Germany. (AFP/dpa/Daniel Bockwoldt)
September 4, 2016, 9:53 pm
Germany’s anti-migrant populists beat Merkel’s party in local vote
AfD proud of result as public rejects government’s acceptance of a million asylum seekers
By Andreas PROST and Hui Min NEO
Illustrative: Muslim asylum seekers wait for their registration after arriving at a center for refugees in Giessen, Germany, on December 2, 2015 (AFP/DPA/Boris Roessler)
September 3, 2016, 1:13 pm
German legislator calls for new law to screen refugees
Johannes Kahrs, a member of the Social Democratic Party, also condemns far-right Alternative for Germany party
By JTA
Josef Schuster, the new president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, attends a press conference in Frankfurt on Nov. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Probst,)
September 2, 2016, 11:03 pm
German Jewish leader: Rise of populist AfD ‘frightening’
Right-wing party is polling above 20% in northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Merkel’s home turf
By AFP
Germany's Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel showing the middle finger to a group of far-right protesters, August 12, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 29, 2016, 6:30 am
German vice chancellor regrets not flipping two birds at neo-Nazis
Sigmar Gabriel says only mistake was not using both hands during response to protesters who said he should be more like his Nazi dad
By AFP and AP
Illustrative photo of Muslim women wearing burqas (AFP/Torsten Blackwood/File)
August 19, 2016, 11:05 am
German interior minister calls for partial ban on burqas
Thomas de Maiziere seeks to outlaw full face veil at public offices, courts, schools; says it ‘does not belong in our cosmopolitan country’
By AFP
Germany's Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel showing the middle finger to a group of far-right protesters, August 12, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 17, 2016, 1:56 pm
German vice-chancellor gives neo-Nazis the finger
Sigmar Gabriel makes the gesture after far-right demonstrators said he should be more like his Nazi father
By AFP
Germany's defender Jerome Boateng sits on the pitch during the Euro 2016 semi-final football match between Germany and France at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on July 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/PATRIK STOLLARZ)
July 8, 2016, 4:42 pm
German far-right party blasted for ‘national team’ tweet
Comment by Beatrix von Storch widely seen as jibe at soccer players with immigrant roots, causing storm of protest
By AFP
The head of right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) Frauke Petry (R) and then AfD main-candidates in Baden-Wuerttemberg Joerg Meuthen during a press conference in Berlin. March 14, 2016 (AFP Photo/John MacDougall)
July 6, 2016, 7:24 pm
Holocaust denial reveals split in Germany’s far-right AfD
Leadership row comes after MP refers to Shoah as ‘certain misdeeds,’ protests Berlin memorial; squabble likened to ‘Life of Brian’
By Frank Zeller
Delegates vote during a party congress of the German right wing party AfD at the Stuttgart Congress Center on May 1, 2016 (AFP/ Philipp GUELLAND)
May 2, 2016, 3:49 am
German right-wing party adopts anti-Islam platform
Nationalist AfD backs ban on minarets and veils while rejecting more nuanced call to ‘stop Islamism but seek dialogue with Islam’
By AFP
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