Far Right Dominating German Politics

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has established a dominant lead in German politics, an opinion poll from YouGov published yesterday suggests.

• Just a few months ago, it was big news when the AfD won the race to be Germany’s most popular party by just one or two percentage points. Now that lead has grown to 9 percent: The AfD is at 29 percent; the mainstream right Christian Democratic party in second with 20 percent.

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Mainstream parties have so far refused to work with it. But it may soon be impossible to keep the AfD out of power.

• In Saxony-Anhalt, it is polling at over 40 percent, with regional elections in September. It could win a majority outright, without any need for coalition partners.

Even if AfD candidates fall short, it will be impossible for the mainstream parties to form a government without help from the fringe.

• “The Left” party, modern successor to the East German communists, is probably more extreme than the AfD. The Left and the AfD are expected to win more than 50 percent of the vote, meaning that a majority coalition must include at least one of them.
• The only choice left to the mainstream parties is working with Nazi sympathizers or Communist sympathizers.

An even more extreme party almost won mayoral elections in the small Saxony town of Aue-Bad Schlema last week.

• The National Democratic Party of Germany is all but an out-and-out neo-Nazi group. Stefan Hartung was a member for years before running for mayor as part of the local Free Saxons party. He narrowly lost, with 47 percent of the vote.

Nazi-sympathetic parties used to be shunned in German politics. Yet prominent AfD leaders routinely praise the “achievements” of their soldiers in World War ii, call for an overhaul of how Germany views its history, and rehabilitate Nazi slogans.

Germany has real problems. Mass immigration has caused rising crime and sexual assault. It’s a major change in a formerly high-trust society, where honesty boxes were common and train tickets rarely checked. Manufacturing, once the core of the German economic miracle, is in decline.

• Germans want solutions—and parties like the AfD promise radical change. Though neo-Nazi views would have once stigmatized the AfD, Germans are ready to embrace something they used to reject.

“The rise of this extreme party is just one sign of a German society in trouble,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in August. The appetite for installing a strongman is growing. “The rise of the Nazi spirit in Europe is sobering,” he wrote. “It certainly shows how the climate is ripe for the rise of this strongman.” His article “Nazism Rises Again in Germany” shows where these polls are leading.

Trump Suggests Turning Hezbollah Over to Syria

United States President Donald Trump criticized Israel’s fight against Hezbollah yesterday. Speaking at the G7 summit in France, Trump said he felt “Israel is fighting Hezbollah for too long and too many people are being killed.” He continued:

I’m not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and with Hezbollah. They should have been able to do the job faster. It just goes on forever. And when that happens, it throws a negative light on the big deal, and that’s the deal with Iran.

His solution: President Trump claimed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa would do a better job dealing with Hezbollah than Israel. Referring to Sharaa, he said:

He’s very capable. And he’s been very good for me. He’s protected everything that I’ve asked for …. And if Israel can’t do the job without killing everyone else, he’ll do the job. Syria will do the job.

This is truly bizarre. Sharaa is a former al Qaeda operative who was on the U.S. government’s terrorist blacklist until Nov. 7, 2025, three days before Mr. Trump hosted him at the White House.

• His relatively new government in Syria already has troubling associations with other terror groups and persecuting minorities. But according to President Trump, he is more trustworthy than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israelis are shocked. British journalist Melanie Phillips summarized their feelings about Trump’s words and actions:

President Donald Trump’s apparent volte-face on Iran is being felt as an abandonment. … So Israel now faces an excruciating choice—between abandoning its northern citizens to Hezbollah attacks, and risking a vindictive Trump cutting off the military support necessary to keep itself alive.

Phillips writes that many Israelis viewed President Trump as a “new Cyrus,” the king of Persia who the Bible records as delivering the Jews from Gentile captivity.

• Trump moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, brokered the Abraham Accords, and ordered strikes on Iran’s nuclear program last year.

But now he is giving Iran a deal to continue its nuclear weapons work and is apparently close to withdrawing all support for Israel’s war on Hezbollah. Truly, as Joel Hilliker wrote on Monday, “The spirit of Antiochus Epiphanes is in the White House.”

Antifa Busted For Violent ICE Blockade

Demonstrators clashed with U.S. marshals at a courthouse in St. Paul, Minnesota, after 15 activists were charged with conspiring to “violently oppose immigration law enforcement.” Agents arrested 12 of the suspects yesterday; another was already in custody, and two remain at large.

• The charges, announced by U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen, include conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, interstate threats, interstate stalking, assault on a federal officer, and destruction of government property.

The activists worked with Direct Action Minnesota and its subgroup, the Black Cat Workers Collective, to impede officers from arresting illegal immigrants in Minnesota.

• Direct Action Minnesota is tied to the Antifa movement. The group’s name is an abbreviation for “anti-fascist,” and it labels all its rivals as “fascist” and commits destruction and violence to oppose them.

Antifa was founded in the 1920s and began by convincing Germans that Social Democrats and other mainstream political parties were no better than Nazis. This strategy convinced hundreds of thousands of Germans to join the Communist Party.

• The group surged in the 1980s in the United States by resurrecting the strategy of labeling free-market advocates and constitutional conservatives as fascists. It surged again in 2020 by helping inflame protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody.

After the September 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk by an Antifa-linked radical, President Donald Trump issued an executive order designating the movement as a “domestic terrorist organization.” The U.S. Justice Department has been targeting Antifa ever since.

The Bible indicates that America’s radicals will not surrender easily.

• One prophecy in Ezekiel 5:12 reveals that one third of the population of “Israel” will die from “pestilence.” This is not referring to an ancient destruction of Israel because that occurred before Ezekiel delivered his prophecy. This is for the nations of Israel today (including the United States).
• This equates to more than 164 million deaths from civil war, rioting and famine—16 times more than in the Bolshevik Revolution, the bloodiest civil war in history.

America’s rebellion against God has opened the door to socialism, communism and other evil forces. Learn more about the violent nature of the American left in our article “American Bolsheviks.”

IN OTHER NEWS

France doesn’t want to depend on America: France’s General Directorate for Internal Security will replace its reliance on American tech company Palantir with French company ChapsVision, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said yesterday, to reduce “strategic dependencies in the digital sphere” and reliance on the “goodwill of certain partners.” The process will take years, but this is another confirmation that the 85-year alliance between Europe and the U.S. is dying.

Russian warship fires shots in English Channel: The Admiral Grigorovich, a Russian Navy frigate, fired warning shots toward a British yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday. The incident occurred outside of British territorial waters, and no damage was reported, but it reminds Britain and Europe that Russian aggression remains an imminent threat.

SPLC boss funneled $1.2M to neo-Nazi boyfriend: The U.S. Department of Justice says a top official at the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center helped send $1.2 million in donor money to a paid informant—who was also her boyfriend—in the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group. A June 2 court filing calls her “Employee-2.” Journalists report that she is Heidi Beirich, director of the group’s Intelligence Project from 2012 to 2019. The indictment claims the official had a romantic relationship with the informant and that they lived together and shared two bank accounts. The National Alliance had about 1,400 members under its founder in 2002. By 2012, membership had dropped to around 75. Critics say the splc spends millions to enrich corrupt members and keep tiny, dying extremist groups alive to justify its own existence.

MLB warns players not to write Bible verses on ‘Pride Night’ caps: Major League Baseball warned several San Francisco Giants players yesterday about writing of Bible verses on their uniform caps during the team’s game on June 12, marketed as “Pride Night.” Players wore special caps incorporating the rainbow lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer-plus flag into the team logo. Pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker added references to Genesis 9:12-16 on their hats, which records the origin of the rainbow and God’s promise to never again flood the Earth. mlb said writing of any kind breaks uniform rules and implied that future violations could lead to fines. People openly sinning against God are using their power to stamp out even minor attempts to honor Him.