Nadir Aslam, a German of Moroccan-Pakistani descent, planned to vote Green in this week’s European Parliament elections. Instead, he will throw his support behind Mera25, an upstart left-wing party with a clear pro-Palestinian stance.
Aslam, 33, said it was a speech by a Green leader last November in which he redoubled German support for Israel even as the death toll in Gaza approached 9,000, boosting his support for the Ecologists’ Party, a member of the ruling coalition of Germany, was ‘destroyed’.
This shift in support, mirrored across Europe, represents the latest threat – this time from the left – to mainstream political parties whose project to deepen European integration is already under fire from the far right. This trend is occurring not only among Muslim communities in the EU, but also among left-wing voters who see a double standard in the European condemnation of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, but fail to hold Israel to account military attack on Gaza, causing more deaths. than 36,000 Palestinians.
