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James Jackson – The Telegraph Oct 19, 2025

A German author and politician has been investigated by police over social media posts comparing Benjamin Netanyahu to the Nazis.

Jürgen Todenhöfer, a former parliamentarian for the centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, was raided by Munich police, he said.

The 84-year-old, who left the CDU in 2020 to found The Justice Party, wrote on X: “Mr Netanyahu, does your conscience never actually protest when you do to Palestinians the same thing that the cursed Nazis did to the Jews?”

Mr Todenhöfer said police monitored his apartment for weeks before carrying out the raid.

Germany prohibits relativising or trivialising the Holocaust under anti-incitement laws.

Mr Todenhöfer has been a long-standing critic of Western intervention in the Middle East.

His new party has never won any seats but he is an outspoken critic of Germany’s support for Israel, and has written multiple books about the Islamic State, Afghanistan and Iraq.

The author said he was also investigated for accusing Olaf Scholz, the former chancellor, of treason for supposedly allowing the bombing of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Russia.

‘Prison would be an honour’

“Is there a ‘thought police’ in Germany again?” Mr Todenhöfer asked.

“If a prison sentence comes out of this investigation, it will be an honour for me to serve it. Because standing up for peace and freedom in Palestine is our duty,” he said.

 

Courtesy MM.

 

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