Here’s the pretzel logic of the AfD hiding behind German law.
“Sich zu eigen machen” is a liability test: whether someone who shares third-party content has adopted it as their own. It’s the formula courts use for press and platform cases.
The Vorstand asked the AfD member a moral question: do you believe this?
His answer: “Ich stehe klar in meiner Haltung und meinem Handel [sic] gegen Antisemitismus ein. Den Inhalt des besagten Videos mache ich mir meiner Ansicht nach durch Teilen nicht zu eigen.”
He was asked whether he believes what he posted. He answered whether he’s liable for it.
So why did an AfD member of the Bundestag put a Rothschilds-sank-the-Titanic video, Hava Nagila playing over it, in a public story ... if he doesn’t believe it?
