Germany's Merz attacks AfD in parliament after far-right election win

Massive AfD data breach exposes illegally copied files

The “Alternative for Germany” party apparently suffered a data breach. Some 421,000 emails were published, offering a glimpse inside the party.

Archived Fact-Checked Media — MediaVault

“If confirmed, this is telling: Russian data centres get hit, and online activity around AfD suddenly plummets. 📉 So much talk about German patriotism… then the connection from Russia goes down. 🤔🇷🇺 https://t.co/hEPJkIVtA3”

Investigation | An old dog with no new tricks: Matryoshka targets regional elections in Germany

ISD finds Matryoshka targets Germany’s 2026 elections, exposing weaknesses that could aid detection in future elections.

The Ceuta Crisis Puzzle: A Moroccan Operation? - CSDS

The instrumentalisation of migration can be used to conduct hybrid warfare along all of the EU’s external borders, including the southern flank. Certain plausible hypotheses about the mass unauthorised crossings into Ceuta, Spanish territory in North Africa, suggest Moroccan involvement. The orchestration of illegal migration can have cascading negative effects by boosting the anti-migration discourse of far-right political forces in Europe.

Merz Makes Surprise Kyiv Visit, Pledges 1,000 Drone Interceptors

The German chancellor arrived unannounced in Kyiv with business leaders, pledging rapid deliveries of interceptor systems to counter jet-powered Shahed drones.

Prefigurement

Today’s cruel treatment of Muslims and immigrants was originally crafted as an attack on Jews.

Israel: What Went Wrong?

A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion.The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become a leading scholar of the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention to his native country.In Israel: What Went Wrong?, Bartov sketches the tragic transformation of Zionism, a movement that sought to emancipate European Jewry from oppression, into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism. How is it possible, he asks, that a state founded in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, an event that gave legitimacy to a national home for the Jews, stands credibly accused of perpetrating large-scale war crimes? How do we come to terms with the fact that Israel’s war of destruction is being conducted with the support, laced with denial and indifference, of so many of its Jewish citizens?Tracing the roots of the violent events currently unfolding in Israel and the occupied territories, Bartov tracks his country's moral tribulations and considers the origins of Zionism, the intertwining of Israel’s independence with Palestinian displacement, the politics of the Holocaust, controversies over the term "genocide," and the uncertain future. The result is a searing and urgent critique that addresses today’s debates over Zionism and the future of Israel with rigor and depth.

How remigration became a buzzword for global far right

Electoral success of parties in Germany and Austria backing mass deportation linked to the term’s growing use by mainstream politicians, say experts

WFP cyber-attack: Is nearly all of Gaza’s population exposed?

Notes on how aid works: What WFP leaves out of data breach reports, the humanitarian reset’s neglected crises, and Palantir.

German defense minister fears the country's secret defense plan will fall into the hands of the AfD

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius fears that the classified operational plan for Germany's defense (OPLAN) could end up in the ...

A Theory of Forced Labour Migration

This book focuses on labour dislocation and migration of Palestinians between 1967 and 1990. In particular, it highlights the social transformations in the occupied Palestinian territory where Palestinian labour was permitted to work in Israel from 1968 onwards.

British White Papers: White Paper of 1939

White Paper issued by Great Britain in 1939 proposing a unitary state in which the Arabs would have been in control with the power to limit Jewish immigration.

AfD data leak: Suspected perpetrators claim responsibility

In an interview with Zeit, two anonymous perpetrators claim responsibility for the cyberattack on the AfD, saying it was about transparency and justice.

A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel

Podcast Episode · The New Yorker Radio Hour · April 17 · 39m