Overview
- Dorst resigned as deputy leader of the BSW parliamentary group in the Brandenburg state legislature but remains in the faction.
- His X post expressing understanding for AfD candidate Ulrich Siegmund’s refusal in a Politico podcast to judge the Nazi era’s crimes, and his attack on Jewish Council president Josef Schuster as “truly perfidious,” drew heavy criticism.
- BSW faction chief Niels-Olaf Lüders said Dorst clarified he does not question the Holocaust’s singularity and argued that a combative social-media persona is incompatible with the deputy post.
- The SPD condemned Dorst’s comments as unacceptable, and Brandenburg’s antisemitism commissioner also rebuked his stance.
- The episode deepens a BSW crisis marked by four defections and disputes over media-state treaties, while Interior Minister René Wilke declined to assess the resignation, citing insufficient information.