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Alternative for Germany and Hamas

Measured distance across six axes

10.9 / 49.0 possible

The same broad family. They agree within three points on CU, SC, ID. They diverge by eight points or more on CH.

Axis by axis

AxisAfDHamasGapReading
EC · Economic organisation+04−026DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
CU · Social and cultural order+09+090AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
AU · Organisation of power+05+094DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
SC · Scale of decision+03+041AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
ID · Rule of membership+08+091AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
CH · Method and tempo 00+088DivergesCarries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.

Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →

The evidence behind the widest gaps

A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.

AfD · CH 00

Coded at zero: parliamentary in method, with parts of the party under intelligence observation.

  • Documented act or statuteHas contested every federal and state election since 2013 and holds seats in every state parliament.

Hamas · CH +08

Coded +8: armed struggle as the constitutive method.

  • Documented act or statuteThe 7 October 2023 attack killed around 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.

What this comparison does not establish

Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.

Alternative for Germany

2013– · Germany

Founded against euro bailouts, reoriented around immigration, national identity and rejection of climate policy.

Hamas

1987– · Gaza, West Bank

Armed Palestinian nationalism in an Islamist frame, rejecting the negotiated framework in favour of resistance.

Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.

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