Jews in the AfD?

I spoke on an essay about three weeks ago....that some element of Jews in the Frankfurt area....were going to organize an association under the AfD Party (the anti-immigration group).  Well....I caught up with the story this morning.....the group finished their weekend meeting and the association now exists.  N-TV (the commercial German news network) reports most of the story.

This is a group that I'd just refer to as being an inner-party group of the AfD, and what they say is....being Jewish is a requirement to be a member.  A large group?  No....N-TV says 24 folks are now counted as members.

Naturally, this got Jewish groups across Germany hyped up and angry....suggesting that AfD is anti-Jewish and therefore.....you can't form such a participation-group, under the Jewish identification.

Over the past couple of years, various negative accusations have been thrown at the AfD folks....suggesting some Nazi-feelings or racism.  The fact that the Jewish group exists within AfD?  Well...it basically makes the accusations now look weak. 

Here's the thing.....if a couple of groups like this start to exist, and the anti-AfD folks have to acknowledge that some of the harsh chatter (Nazi-talk, racism-chatter)....doesn't exist at the degree they suggest, then public perception will likely change to some degree. 

The chief focus of AfD?  It remains basically the same that you would have observed three years ago....that immigration and asylum policies of the government are a failure, and that some significant change has to occur with limits on migrants.  It would appear that this political talk now crosses religious lines and even some German Jews (limited in nature) agree with the position against the government.