Exploiting the situation, the AfD is attacking migrant, Muslim and LGBTQIA+ communities — calling for a ban on immigration from Africa and the Middle East, the prohibition of same‐sex marriage, and restrictions on Islamic worship. Using timeworn scapegoat tactics, the party blames oppressed communities for the conditions caused by the very capitalist system it seeks to preserve.

This month, Björn Höcke, the AfD leader in Thuringia state, used the Nazi Stormtrooper slogan “everything for Germany” at a campaign rally. In the past three years, neo‐Nazi violence has surged in Germany, with over 24,000 hate crimes committed by far‐right groups recorded in 2021 alone. Most of these attacks have targeted migrants and asylum‐seekers, who experience systemic racism as well as xenophobic and Islamophobic discrimination. [Neofascist] attacks on Jewish people have also increased.

Instead of addressing this [neofascist] violence, the German state is targeting Palestinian activists and allies such as Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters, whom Zionist groups have falsely smeared as “anti‐Semitic.”