Then-19-year-old Naomi Seibt speaks during a workshop at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2020 (CPAC) hosted by the American Conservative Union on February 28, 2020 in National Harbor, MD.
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Naomi Seibt has received death threats from Antifa—labeled a terror group by Trump—while Brussels stays silent.
Naomi Seibt, a 25-year-old conservative dubbed the “anti-Greta” due to her activism from a young age against mass immigration and ‘green’ zealotry, is fleeing from her native Germany and seeking asylum in America.
Announcing the move on social media, Seibt said on Wednesday that “as a free speech advocate and supporter of the AfD party, I am the target of intelligence surveillance, state media defamation and Antifa [death] threats.” She believes that Antifa “is stronger in Germany than it is anywhere else in the world.”
I AM SEEKING ASYLUM IN THE U.S. 🇩🇪🇺🇸
My name is Naomi Seibt,
I am the 1st German applying for asylum under President Trump due to political persecution.
As a free speech advocate and supporter of the AfD party, I am the target of • intelligence surveillance • state media… pic.twitter.com/rdsj4Qg4BB
Conservative-led efforts are also underway to get the group classified as a terror entity across Europe, although Brussels so far seems unwilling to support this campaign. On the contrary, establishment figures in the European Parliament voted earlier this month to protect the immunity of a leftist MEP (Ilaria Salis) accused of participating in attacks organised by an Antifa-linked group.
Seibt’s asylum application is a vindication of U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s February speech in Munich on Europe’s “enemy within.” Indeed, recent polling suggested that less than half of Germans believe freedom of expression exists in their country.
Commentator Ian Miles Cheong said the application is “a stark reminder of how badly Germany has backslid on its promises of free speech and personal liberty, in a nation that once vowed never again to police thought or political belief.”
Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna is meeting with Seibt today, Thursday, after insisting that “when a government smears and targets its own citizens for supporting the AfD, that’s not democracy—that’s what communist countries do!”
Seibt’s case is no doubt aided by the fact that Trump suggested earlier this month he could offer political asylum to Europeans who oppose migration (tick) or have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online” (another tick).
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
