{"id":9940,"date":"2025-02-18T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/?p=9940"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:05:58","slug":"trump-administrations-embrace-of-far-right-german-party-is-dangerous-for-democracy-and-jewish-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/trump-administrations-embrace-of-far-right-german-party-is-dangerous-for-democracy-and-jewish-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration\u2019s Embrace of Far-Right German Party Is Dangerous for Democracy and Jewish Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During his recent trip to the Munich Security Conference, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/02\/13\/nx-s1-5290258\/vance-munich-security-conference-trump-putin-zelenskyy-russia-ukraine\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vice President JD Vance met with the leader of the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD)<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and gave a speech lecturing European leaders for shunning and allegedly censoring far-right political parties across the continent. Senior administration official Elon Musk has also publicly embraced the far-right party, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/elon-musk-germany-far-right-afd-remarks-auschwitz-holocaust-remembrance-day\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">speaking at their rally last month and calling for Germany to \u201cmove beyond\u201d \u201cfocus on past guilt\u201d over the Holocaust<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">following his apparent Nazi salute and Holocaust jokes.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/team\/amy-spitalnick\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amy Spitalnick<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, CEO of the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jewish Council of Public Affairs,<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> released the following statement:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis administration\u2019s normalization of AfD \u2014 a far-right, anti-immigrant, extremist party that has called Holocaust remembrance a \u2018guilt cult\u2019 \u2014 fundamentally threatens the safety of Jews, countless other communities, and democracy around the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet the embrace of AfD is sadly unsurprising, as it aligns with the flurry of policies coming out of the White House targeting immigrants, communities of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and our basic democratic norms and institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHistory has made clear that our safety as Jews is inextricably linked with inclusive, pluralistic democracy. The Trump Administration\u2019s embrace of extreme right policies at home and extreme right political movements abroad \u2013 including a German party that openly trivializes the Holocaust and rejects its lessons \u2013 is deeply dangerous for the global Jewish community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his recent trip to the Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance met with the leader of the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), and gave a speech lecturing European leaders for shunning and allegedly censoring far-right political parties across the continent. 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