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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Frauke Petry

The new elected party chairmen Joerg Meuthen, right, and Alexander Gauland shake hands during a party convention of the Alternative for Germany, AfD, party in Hannover, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
December 3, 2017, 4:21 am
Rising German nationalist party elects leaders amid protests
Alternative for Germany’s convention gets off to a rocky start, with clashes between police and demonstrators
By AP
Mario Mieruch, a founding member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, delivers a speech in March 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)
October 5, 2017, 4:46 am
Far-right German lawmaker quits over colleague’s Nazi guilt remark
Mario Mieruch is 2nd parliamentarian to resign from Alternative for Germany after anti-immigration party’s strong election showing
By AFP
Supporters of the Alternative for Germany party react after exit poll results were broadcast on public television at an election night event in Erfurt, eastern Germany, during the general election on September 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/dpa/Martin Schutt)
September 25, 2017, 5:47 pm
After ballot box success, far-right AfD riven by bitter infighting at the top
Within hours of its unprecedented election showing, co-chief Frauke Petry and four lawmakers in state parliament of Mecklenburg-Pomerania announce split from party
By Hui Min NEO
AfD co-leader Frauke Petry leaves a press conference for the nationalist party on September 25, 2017, in Berlin, where she said she refused to join the AfD parliamentary group. (AFP Photo/John Macdougall)
September 25, 2017, 2:09 pm
Hours after far-right AfD election success, co-leader bolts its Bundestag group
Frauke Petry walks out of press conference with other party heads after criticizing top members’ hardline rhetoric
By AFP
Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland (front R) celebrate their nomination as campaign leaders of Germany's right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party for the next German general election, during the party congress at the Maritim Hotel in Cologne, western Germany, on April 23, 2017. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
April 23, 2017, 8:12 pm
Germany’s unruly anti-immigration AfD picks election duo
Alexander Gauland, 76, and Alice Weidel, 38, to lead right-wing party to the polls after leader Frauke Petry drops out
By Deborah Cole
Police secures a protest march against the party convention of Germany's nationalist party AfD (Alternative for Germany) in Cologne, Germany, Saturday, April 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
April 22, 2017, 11:09 pm
Clashes as German anti-immigration party power struggle spills over
Delegates reject bid by co-leader Frauke Petry to adopt a more moderate program and marginalize far-right
By Deborah Cole
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)
April 22, 2017, 10:28 am
German anti-immigration party heads for weekend showdown
With sinking support in polls, competing factions vie to shape AfD’s character going into September elections
By Deborah Cole
Alternative for Germany (AfD) chairwoman Frauke Petry at a news conference in Berlin. December 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
April 6, 2017, 11:21 pm
Far-right party leader claims it is best hope for German Jewry
Frauke Petry, of Alternative Party for Germany, says hers is ‘one of the few political guarantors’ of Jewish life
By JTA
In this Dec. 19, 2013 photo then European Parliament President Martin Schulz, left, talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, during an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels. (AP/Yves Logghe)
February 25, 2017, 5:56 am
Germany: Angela Merkel’s party slips in poll
Social Democrats nudge ahead of chancellor’s conservative bloc for first time in over a decade
By Frank Jordans
Bjoern Hoecke, chairman of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern federal state of Thuringia, gives a statement on February 13, 2017, at the Thuringian regional parliament in Erfurt, Germany. (AFP Photo/dpa/Hendrik Schmidt)
February 13, 2017, 7:35 pm
German nationalist party moves to oust MP for Nazi guilt remark
Local AfD chairman Bjoern Hoecke faces expulsion from populist party after saying Berlin is too hung up on responsibility for Holocaust
By Agencies and ToI Staff
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, center, at the Salon Planete PME, a forum for French small and medium businesses, on October 18, 2016, in Paris. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
January 19, 2017, 11:25 am
Europe’s right-wing populists to flex muscles in Germany meeting
Emboldened by Brexit vote and hoping to ride the wave of Trump’s victory, European rightists believe their time has come
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
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
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
German player Mesut Ozil, left, and Mario Goetze celebrate after Goetze's goal vie during the UEFA EURO 2016 friendly football match Germany vs. Hungary at the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, on June 4, 2016. (Patrik Stollarz/AFP)
June 5, 2016, 1:17 am
German populist party slams Muslim soccer player Ozil
Leader of far-right ‘Alternative for Germany’ party attacks Turkish-German player for Mecca pilgrimage, not singing anthem
By AFP
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, poses with carolers during a reception for carol singers from all over Germany at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
January 6, 2016, 2:25 am
Mass sexual assaults in Cologne test German openness to refugees
‘Lumping’ the New Year’s Eve attacks with the refugee issue ‘is nothing but exploitation,’ warns justice minister
By Deborah Cole
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