Self-explanatory? Maybe, if you’re familiar with the German scene. If not, by way of a confusing introduction, the photo was taken on Mayday in Hamburg, which I reported on in a previous post. But, these black-block looking youth are not from the radical Left, but rather from the radical Right. “Autonomist nationalists” or some other faction of the neo-Nazi scene.

“Deutsche Intifada”? This says a lot about the self-understanding of some of the radical right in Germany. Not conservative but rebellious and militant; not parliamentary (though they do have their party, the NPD, holding seats in office) but combative; anti-imperialist with a constant focus on their supposed victimhood.

And who do they appeal to? The radical Left, rebellious youth, and older generations whose guilt-defensive antisemitism (or “secondary antisemitism”) can be projected onto Israel.

The photo comes from the website of the Anti-Defamation Forum.