German Politician Dismissed Over Anti-Semitic ‘Simpsons’ Post
September 30, 2014Top officials in a new German party are rushing to expel one of its members, the Bild reports Tuesday, after he posted an anti-Semitic cartoon on his Facebook page.
The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, recently won several seats in regional legislative bodies.
However, at least one member will not be participating, the party’s branch in eastern Brandenburg state said Monday, after it decided to start expulsion proceedings against Jan-Ulrich Weiss.
Weiss was already excluded from the party’s new 11-member caucus in the state legislature due to the incident, whereby Weiss allegedly posted a caricature reminiscent of the Nazi paper Der Stuermer.
The collage-style cartoon included photos of prominent Jewish banker Jacob Rothschild next to pictures of “Mr. Burns” – the greedy villain of hit TV show The Simpsons. German newspapers refused to print the offensive post, but it quickly made the rounds on social media.
The post immediately sparked strong reprimands from both the Left Party and the Green Party, according to the Bild, until AfD took action.
Opponents say that the post proves that the party – which focuses on a euroskeptic stance and tough views on crime and immigration – is yet another function of extreme right wing politics growing in the EU.
“AfD’s bourgeois facade is crumbling more and more – after xenophobic sentiments, there are now even blatant anti-Semitism and right-wing conspiracy theories coming to light,” Green Party leader Alex Vogel fumed.
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