Populist right-wing AfD party co-leader Frauke Petry has encouraged Germans to carry firearms. She claims the government has lost its state monopoly to protect the public, especially in thinly populated areas, Deutsche Welle reported on 20 August. Petry, who caused an uproar January by suggesting German police could use firearms to deter incoming refugees, on Saturday […]
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Australia: Far-right Pauline Hanson supporters dressed as Muslims storm church
A far-right nationalist group that links itself to One Nation leader Pauline Hanson stormed a church service on Sunday dressed in Muslim-style attire and chanting anti-Islamic slogans, leaving some members of the congregation “deeply traumatised”, The Sidney Morning Herald reported on 15 August 2016. The incident, on the NSW Central Coast, reflects the emboldened attitudes of […]
Germany: New far-right group comes under gaze of state spies
The far-right Identitarian Movement is growing in popularity in Germany to the extent that the main federal intelligence agency has started watching them, The Local.de reported on 12 August 2016. Up until this point, the movement, which has been present in Germany since 2012, had been observed by spy agencies at the state level. “We […]
Viktor Orbán and his responsibility for rising antisemitism in Hungary
Quite a political storm is brewing in Hungary, after Ronald S. Lauder of the World Jewish Congress named Hungary Europe’s most antisemitic country, the Hungarian Free Press reported on 19 July 2016. Specifically, Mr. Lauder said the following: “The worst offender is Hungary. Because they now have a neo-Nazi party called Jobbik. They had started to put […]