Violations of Human Dignity

 

"Central to our assessment is the ethnically and ancestrally defined concept of the people that shapes the AfD, which devalues entire segments of the population in Germany and violates their human dignity."

"This concept is reflected in the party’s overall anti-migrant and anti-Muslim stance. [The AfD is stirring up ] irrational fears and hostility [towards individuals and groups]."

"[The party] aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society."

"[AfD also does not consider German nationals with a history of migration from Muslim countries as equal to German people]."

Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz

Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.  JENS SCHLUETER / AFP - Getty Images

The Alternative for Germany party that came second in national elections held in February has been classified by the German domestic intelligence service as a "right-wing extremist" organization -- subject as a result to greater and broader surveillance of its activities. The intelligence service, as a result, can make use of informants and other investigative tools like audio and video records in monitoring AfD activities throughout the country. 

Giving the party so distinguished an opportunity to call out the persecution it is being subjected to in Germany.

The party more familiarly referred to as AfD has been described as a threat to the country's democratic order, according to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, charging the Alternative for Germany party that it "disregards human dignity", by what has been termed "ongoing agitation", aimed against refugees and migrants. 

 

Alice Weidel, and Tino Chrupalla, leaders of the AfD, condemned the move, characterizing it as "a severe blow to German democracy", for failing to reflect the reality that the party has risen to become one of the country's most popular political forces. The designation lodged against them now as a "right-wing extremist" group, they charge, is politically motivated. 

 

Germany has now absorbed six million people from Muslim backgrounds into its population. Extraordinarily enough, a replacement of the six million European Jews that Nazi Germany executed in its plan to rid Europe of its Jews through a state program of mass extermination. Present day Germany presents itself as a bulwark against antisemitism, and that denial of the Holocaust is a criminal offence. Yet throughout Germany the very segment of the population that the AfD would remove if it could, mounts mass rallies of clear antisemitic flavour, repeating a call for a 'Final Solution'.

 

Supporters of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) wave flags as they take part in an AfD campaign rally in Hohenschoenhausen, Berlin, Germany. REUTERS/Christian Mang/File

The original platform of the AfD, formed in 2013, centered on opposition to bailouts for struggling Eurozone members. It began its turn rightward in opposition to then-Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to open Germany's borders to large numbers of refugees streaming into Germany in 2015, which established the party as a considerable political force, since it reflected the majority of the German public's dismay at the wholesale surge of a million-strong mostly Middle Eastern migrants into the country. 

In Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, the state domestic intelligence offices had previously taken steps to classify their AfD state associations as "proven right-wing extremist" groups. The federal intelligence service ruled that the AfD's comprehension of German identity was based on ethnicity and as such is "incompatible with the free democratic basic order."

 

The AfD's political positions, the intelligence service asserted, have underpinned "continuous agitation" against minorities and in the process stirred up the public in fear and hostility toward them. The German Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, stated the classification was "clear and unambiguous", resulting from a 1,100-page "comprehensive and neutral audit" without political influence. 

A view of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) fraction on the day of the inaugural session of Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, March 25, 2025. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File

"Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy — it's tyranny in disguise."

"What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD — which took second in the recent election — but rather the establishment's deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes."

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio