Back معاداة الألمان Arabic Antideutsche Catalan Antideutsche German ضد آلمان (جریان سیاسی) Persian Anti-allemand (Allemagne) French אנטי-דויטשה HE Protu-Njemačka Croatian Antityske NB Антинемцы Russian

Anti-Germans (political current)

Not to be confused with Anti-German sentiment.
Anti-German communist protesters in Frankfurt in 2006. The banner reads "Down with Germany/Solidarity with Israel/For Communism!".[1]

Anti-German (German: Antideutsch) is the generic name applied to a variety of theoretical and political tendencies within the left mainly in Germany and Austria. The Anti-Germans form one of the main camps within the broader Antifa movement, alongside the Anti-Zionist anti-imperialists, after the two currents split between the 1990s and the early 2000s as a result of their diverging views on Israel.[2] The anti-Germans are a fringe movement within the German left: In 2006 Deutsche Welle estimated the number of anti-Germans to be between 500 and 3,000.[3] The basic standpoint of the anti-Germans includes opposition to German nationalism, a critique of mainstream left anti-capitalist views, which are thought to be simplistic and structurally antisemitic,[4] and a critique of antisemitism, which is considered to be deeply rooted in German cultural history. As a result of this analysis of antisemitism, support for Israel and opposition to Anti-Zionism is a primary unifying factor of the anti-German movement.[5] The critical theory of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer is often cited by anti-German theorists.[4]: 2 

  1. ^ Hirsch, Irmel (17 June 2006). "Antifaschistische Demo in Frankfurt" (in German). de.indymedia.org. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  2. ^ Peters, Tim (2007). Der Antifaschismus der PDS aus antiextremistischer Sicht [The antifascism of the PDS from an anti-extremist perspective]. Springer. pp. 33–37, 152, 186. ISBN 9783531901268.
  3. ^ "Strange Bedfellows: Radical Leftists for Bush". DW. Dw-world.de. 25 August 2006. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Verfassungsschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen: 'Die Antideutschen – kein vorübergehendes Phänomen'" (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  5. ^ "A Defense: Why we (the anti-Germans) are pro-Israel". Archived from the original on 2017-05-12.

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