(JTA) A conservative pro-Israel think tank has come to the defense of a far-right German party over a campaign ad depicting dark-skinned Muslim slavers bargaining over a naked white woman.
In an article shared by the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, one of its fellows says a 19th-century painting used in the ad accurately depicts the “reality” that “African and Middle Eastern Muslims have long targeted European women.”
Neither the author of the article nor the head of the think tank, Daniel Pipes, had qualms about supporting the party — known as the Alternative for Germany, or AfD — despite concerns of some local Jewish groups in Germany. Nor were they put off by the racially charged imagery in the painting.
