Israel's rightward tilt backfires as far-right AfD surges in Germany

Germany has crossed a threshold its Jewish communities hoped never to see again: the Alternative for Germany party has won a state election, becoming the first far-right party to govern a German region since the Nazi era. The victory arrives entangled in a painful irony — Israel's deliberate cultivation of European right-wing parties as diplomatic allies may have lent legitimacy to the very forces that now threaten Jewish life in Europe. History has a way of returning debts in currencies no one intended to spend, and the question of who bears responsibility for this moment is one that neither