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You\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a more fitting scenario to encapsulate the MAGA movement\u2019s contradictory stance on antisemitism and other forms of extremism than the juxtaposition of a U.S. State Department official promoting Germany\u2019s far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschlandparty and the department issuing a public condemnation of a deadly antisemiticattack in Australiain the same afternoon.<\/p>\n

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On Sunday, the same day <\/em>of the mass shooting on Bondi Beach, top State Department official Sarah Rogers posted an endorsement of the AfD, a party founded by Nazi apologists and to which various scholars have largely attributed the disturbing normalization of antisemitism in Germany in recent years.<\/p>\n

Rogers met on Saturday with Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD member in the German parliament. And after a journalist noted on social media the reporting on Frohnmaier\u2019s ties to the Russian government and claims he is a Russian asset \u2014 which Frohnmaier has denied \u2014 Rogers responded by touting the group\u2019s purported \u201canti-censorship\u201d stance as \u201cone reason they\u2019re gaining popularity in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s domestic intelligence agency has deemed the AfD an \u201cextremist\u201d group, and while some of its members were punished by a German court last year for promoting Nazism, and the party welcomed back two party members who had previously been \u201cexcluded over Nazi-related remarks,\u201d per the Guardian.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, AfD is aligned with Big Tech elites such as JD Vance and Elon Musk, who have accused the European Union of \u201ccensorship\u201d for regulating social media with laws designed to curb hate speech, disinformation and sexual abuse online.<\/p>\n

Rogers\u2019 meeting with Frohnmaier came as the New York Young Republican Club was preparing to schmooze AfD members at a ritzy gala in New York on Saturday. As Politico reported, the gala featured AfD members commingling with American white nationalists.<\/p>\n

Lately, the MAGA movement has been convulsing in a civil war of sorts over some members\u2019 embrace of antisemitism. The images of Trump administration officials laying the charm on stewards of German far-right extremism seem unlikely to resolve things on that front.<\/p>\n

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