Merz Accuses AfD of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Policy and Cancels Call with Trump

THE GUARDIAN: German chancellor attacks Alternative für Deutschland after far-right party’s win in Saxony-Anhalt election

Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has accused the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) of seeking “ethnic cleansing” with its “remigration” drive, after the nativist party’s seismic weekend victory in a state election.

In his first public confrontation with the AfD since Sunday’s shock outcome in Saxony-Anhalt, Merz said at a raucous parliamentary debate that the far-right party would take an axe to one of the pillars of the German economy with a racist campaign of mass deportations.

“The term ‘remigration’ is nothing but a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin colour,” he said on Wednesday to applause from the other parties in the Bundestag lower house.

In a fiery speech addressed to the AfD parliamentary group, which repeatedly interrupted him with loud taunts and heckling, Merz said millions of working immigrants were crucial to German society.

“If those working in Germany have to leave the country again because you are championing ‘remigration’,” Merz said, “then the skilled trades in Germany will no longer be able to function: not a single care home will remain open, not a single hospital in Germany will remain operational, and not a single restaurant in Germany will be able to stay in business.”

He said the AfD’s rhetoric, which propelled it to the strongest showing for a far-right party in a German state since the Nazi period, “is precisely what is dividing our society so deeply”.

The AfD has repeatedly called for large-scale expulsions of irregular migrants, a policy that would face stiff challenges under German law. » | Deborah Cole in Berlin | Wednesday, September 9, 2026

UK Accuses Israeli Government of "Ethnic Cleansing" as Diplomatic Crisis Unfolds in Middle East

Sep 9, 2026 | The UK Labour government, led by Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, has executed a historic shift in Middle East policy. In an address to the House of Commons, Britain officially declared Israel’s occupation of the West Bank unlawful in its entirety, accusing state-backed settler groups of committing "ethnic cleansing" against Palestinians.

To enforce this stance, the UK announced an import ban on all goods originating from illegal West Bank settlements, alongside sanctions prohibiting UK businesses from providing construction, financing, or advertising services for settlement expansion. In response, Israel's foreign minister, Gideon Sa'ar, slammed the measures as "morally distorted," ordered the closure of the British Consulate in Jerusalem, barred 12 British MPs from entering Israel and terminated security cooperation.


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Jason Stanley: Ethnic Cleansing Is Coming to America | Amanpour & Company

July 2, 2026 | Controversy continues to swirl around President Trump's immigration agenda as he pushes through a series of sweeping changes. From recent Supreme Court rulings terminating protected standing for Haitians and Syrians, to fast-tracking refugee status for white South Africans, the administration's actions have sparked outrage across the country. This comes less than six months after two Americans were shot and killed in separate incidents involving federal immigration officers in Minnesota. Author Jason Stanley, Chair of American Studies at the University of Toronto, joins the show to explain what he believes immigration policy reveals about broader democratic values. | Originally aired on July 2, 2026

The US Supreme Court is not worthy of its name. It appears to be the tool of America’s authoritarian leader. — © Mark Alexander

Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing

Father David talks of Trump’s Gestapo and their un-Christian actions.

Humza Yousaf Slams Gaza 'Ethnic Cleansing' by Israel & UK Government 'Complicity' | Full Interview

Feb 12, 2025 | Former First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, joins Global News Today with Tom Burges Watson for an exclusive interview to discuss the Gaza ceasefire and the recent threats made by US President Donald Trump and supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hamas, demanding the immediate release of the rest of the hostages by Saturday, otherwise "all hell will break out." President Trump had also wanted to turn Gaza into a "Riviera of the Middle East" and says that all Palestinians should move to neighboring countries.

Yousaf slams these ideas put forward by the US president and says its simply "ethnic cleansing," stating many countries are being cowardly in not labeling Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza as such.

Yousaf also attacks Keir Starmer and the UK government for being "complicit" in Israel's "ethnic cleansing," suggesting that the language they use to describe Israel's actions is limited and the fact they continue to send weapons to Israel which are used against the Palestinians.

Tariq Ali on Trump's Embrace of Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Global Rise of the Far Right

Feb 12, 2025 | Acclaimed scholar and activist Tariq Ali joins us for a wide-ranging conversation. In Part 1, he responds to Trump's support of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the U.S.'s capitulation to Israeli aggression in the Middle East and the rise in right-wing authoritarianism around the world. Ali says Donald Trump is "the most right-wing president in recent years" and exposes "in public what his predecessors used to say in private."

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Mustafa Barghouti on Trump, Ethnic Cleansing & Israel “Moving the War” from Gaza to the West Bank

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Cenk Uygur Reacts to Trump’s Displacement Plan

Feb 5, 2025 | ‘This is absolutely insane’.

American political commentator Cenk Uygur reacts to Trump’s plan to ‘take over’ Gaza, saying the proposal is the ‘definition of ethnic cleansing’ and urging Americans to ‘unite against it’.

'It's Ethnic Cleansing': Trump Receiving Major Backlash for Gaza 'Take Over' Comments

Feb 7, 2025 | President Trump is facing backlash for his proposal for the U.S. to “take over” the Gaza strip and “own” it. Diana Buttu, former Advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, joins José Díaz-Balart to share her reaction to Trump’s comments and to discuss what she thinks would be a better outcome for the Middle East.

Trump's Gaza Scheme Alarms Arab nations, as UN Chief Warns against 'Ethnic Cleansing' | DW News

Feb 7, 2025 | Just a day after US President Trump suggested that the US should take over the Gaza Strip, Israel says it is already preparing for large numbers of Palestinians to leave the territory. On Thursday, members of the Trump administration have tried to walk back some of the president's shocking proposal--a proposal that is drawing condemnation from around the world, with the head of the United Nations warning against ethnic cleansing.

Fact is Trump is bad news for just about everyone, except the superrich and Netanyahu and his cronies! – © Mark Alexander

‘Worst Nightmare’: Egypt and Jordan Put in Impossible Bind by Trump Gaza Plan

THE GUARDIAN: Though heavily dependent on US aid, Amman and Cairo face political calamity at home should they comply

International outrage in recent days has focused on Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take “ownership” of Gaza, and that more than two million Palestinians be displaced to allow the territory to be transformed from “a demolition site” into a “riviera” in the Middle East.

In Jordan and Egypt, the demand that both countries accept huge numbers of Palestinians from Gaza – potentially on a permanent basis – has prompted equal concern. Leaders of both countries immediately rejected the proposal, and the Jordanian king, Abdullah II, and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, are heading to Washington in an attempt to convince Trump to change course.

“They are terrified that an Israeli policy of population transfer will actually become real,” said Neil Quilliam, an associate fellow of the Middle East programme at the Chatham House thinktank in London.

Abdullah and Sisi know that they are vulnerable to Trump’s trademark transactional style of geopolitics as their countries’ economies and security depend heavily on huge levels of US aid and trade.

Jordan accepted large numbers of displaced Palestinians in 1948 during the wars surrounding the foundation of Israel, and in 1967 when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza. A large proportion of Jordan’s population – probably more than half – is of Palestinian origin, with many still classed as refugees. » | Jason Burke, International security correspondent | Thursday, February 6, 2025

Palestinians 'going to have to live somewhere else in the interim' under Trump's Gaza plan, says Rubio »

Peter Beinart on "Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza" & Trump's Call for Ethnic Cleansing | Democracy Now!

Feb 6, 2025 | We speak to Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart about his new book, _Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning_, which is "addressed to my fellow Jews" and criticizes what he characterizes as the increasing privileging of Zionism as a part of Jewish identity. "The Jewish community is structured to basically make the existence of a Jewish state, a state that privileges Jews over Palestinians, sacred, … elevat[ing] ethnonationalism — a Jewish state — over Judaism itself," Beinart says. In response, he challenges the erasure of Zionism's explicitly colonial roots and political myths about majoritarian rule, arguing for the acceptance of more critical stances toward the state of Israel within Jewish communities.

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Trump Announces Imperial Plan: His Long-term Ownership of Gaza!

Feb 5, 2025

Trump Faces International Backlash Over Gaza Remarks | DW News

Feb 5, 2025 | US President Donald Trump has announced that his country will 'take over' the Gaza Strip and that Palestinians living there could be resettled elsewhere. He made the comments at a White House press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. US allies across Europe and the Middle East have condemned Trump's plans.

In my opinion, Donald Trump’s suggestion is nothing short of OUTRAGEOUS! – © Mark Alexander

Trump Could Be Arrested over Gaza Plan

Feb 5, 2025 | “Ethnic cleansing of the population in Gaza is tantamount to a crime against humanity.”

Trump’s plans to relocate Palestinians from Gaza could lead to an arrest warrant by the ICC, says Scott Lucas, from UCD Dublin’s Clinton Institute.

Al-Jazeera TV Host Faisal Al-Qassem Incites to Ethnic Cleansing of Shiites in Sunni Regions in Syria

Netanyahu Condemns Palestinian Demand for a State without Jews

ISIS Destroys Christian Churches and Crosses in Iraq and Syria

My comment:

If Western political ‘leaders’ are unwilling to put a stop to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, and to put a stop to the destruction of churches and all that is Christian, is it perhaps time for the Pope to call for another crusade? – © Mark

Inside Story: Holy War in the Central African Republic?

We ask if the violence in the CAR is turning into a religious war.

WIKI: Anti-balaka »

Central African Republic: 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Muslims

BBC: International peacekeepers have failed to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Central African Republic, a human rights group says.

Militia attacks have led to a "Muslim exodus of historic proportions", according to a report by Amnesty International.

Aid groups have warned of a food crisis, as many of the shops and wholesalers were run by Muslims.

The UN's World Food Programme has started a month-long aid airlift.

The roads are too dangerous to transport food without a military escort, WFP spokesman Alexis Masciarelli told the BBC.

This is why the UN agency is taking the more expensive option of flying food in from neighbouring Cameroon. » | Wednesday, February 12, 2014

BBC: 'I'll be last Muslim in CAR': A government minister in the Central African Republic, Gaston Makouzemba, has warned there is a risk of a genocide as communities fight each other on religious and ethnic lines. All communities have been affected by the violence and now many Muslims are fleeing the country, afraid for their lives. One imam in the capital Bangui shared his fears with the BBC's Newsday programme: » | Monday, February 10, 2014