“‘The AfD is the only party in Germany that focuses on Muslims’ hatred for Jews, without playing it down,’ Dimitri Schulz, who is Jewish and joined the organization in 2014, said in a policy statement defining the new group’s purpose. Many of the country’s traditional Jewish organizations are critical of any alliance with the party. They point to its embrace of nationalist and populist positions and a push by several prominent members to abandon Germany’s culture of remembrance and atonement for its Nazi past.” Stoking hatred to turn oppressed groups against one another is a classic strategy of Europe’s far right. And it appears to be working on some. NYT: Seeing Ally Against Muslims, Some German Jews Embrace Far Right, to Dismay of Others.