Political activism, antisemitism
In 2021, Bhakdi was a founder of the new German political party
dieBasis, which emerged out of the "
Querdenken" political movement, standing as a candidate in the
2021 German federal election in
North Rhine-Westphalia.
[49][50][51] In April 2021, the antisemitism commissioner for the state of
Baden-Württemberg identified the Querdenken movement as providing space for antisemitic conspiracy theories, noting that Bhakdi singled out the German-Jewish minister of education in
Schleswig-Holstein,
Karin Prien, as "poisoning our children with CO2".
[52]
In a video released as part of his campaign, Bhakdi articulated antisemitic views, saying Israel is "even worse" than Nazi Germany, and "That’s the bad thing about Jews." The Austrian publisher
Goldegg Verlag [
de] of three of Bhakdi’s books on the pandemic, said that it was severing ties with the author.
[6][48][53][54] Bhakdi was criticised by antisemitism commissioners for the states of Berlin and
Baden-Württemberg.
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