CLAIM Allianz Regroups After German Government Says Several Members under Surveillance

Ger­man anti-Islam­o­pho­bia NGO Claim Allianz, which has faced polit­i­cal and media scruti­ny over its mem­bers’ Islamist ties, has trans­formed its legal sta­tus into a non-prof­it com­pa­ny with lim­it­ed lia­bil­i­ty. On 19 Novem­ber 2025, CLAIM offi­cial­ly announced the dis­so­lu­tion of the CLAIM Alliance and the con­tin­u­a­tion of its mis­sion through the devel­op­ment of CLAIM gGmbH, empha­siz­ing struc­tur­al changes and renewed strate­gic focus for civ­il soci­ety advo­ca­cy against anti-Mus­lim racism in Ger­many and Europe. CLAIM said this was done to avoid rep­u­ta­tion­al dam­age due to the Ger­man gov­ern­ment stat­ing that sev­er­al of CLAIM’s net­work part­ners were under state sur­veil­lance due to Islamist ties. The arti­cle begins:

After care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion, the CLAIM Alliance was dis­solved on 19.11.2025. At the same time, we are fur­ther expand­ing the impor­tant work of CLAIM gGmbH. When CLAIM was found­ed in 2017, net­work­ing was at the cen­ter. Some ini­tia­tives and spe­cial­ist agen­cies were already work­ing on anti-Mus­lim racism, but with­out com­mon exchange and with­out a com­pre­hen­sive data foun­da­tion. The new plat­form was intend­ed to enable exact­ly that: pool­ing knowl­edge, con­nect­ing actors with each oth­er, and cre­at­ing sys­tem­at­ic exchange. The name “CLAIM Alliance” emerged from this approach, reflect­ing the net­work­ing idea. At the same time, its own pro­fes­sion­al struc­tures were built up ear­ly on, which were lat­er trans­ferred into the mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem and today’s CLAIM gGmbH. [Trans­lat­ed from Ger­man original.]

Read more: https://www.claim-allianz.de/aktuelles/news/aufloesung-claim-allianz-und-weiterentwicklung-claim-ggmbh/

Key Points

• On 19 Novem­ber 2025, the CLAIM Alliance was dis­solved in its cur­rent form to stream­line advo­ca­cy against anti-Mus­lim racism.

• A new non-prof­it com­pa­ny with lim­it­ed lia­bil­i­ty, the CLAIM gGmbH, will con­tin­ue the organization’s work with a new expert and del­e­gates council.

• The new struc­ture aims to enhance coor­di­na­tion, mon­i­tor­ing, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion for civ­il soci­ety ini­tia­tives, con­tin­u­ing CLAIM’s anti-Islam­o­pho­bia work.

• The dis­so­lu­tion of CLAIM occured amid par­lia­men­tary inquiries about the orga­ni­za­tion’s fund­ing and alleged per­son­nel over­laps with groups men­tioned in intel­li­gence reports on legal­ist Islamism.

CLAIM Alliance Advocacy and Organizational Networks

The CLAIM Alliance was an umbrel­la net­work of over 50 civ­il soci­ety and Mus­lim advo­ca­cy groups in Ger­many found­ed in 2018 to com­bat what it described as Islam­o­pho­bic and anti-Mus­lim racism. Sev­er­al part­ner orga­ni­za­tions in the CLAIM net­work had ties to the Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Ger­many, includ­ing the Mus­lim­is­che Jugend in Deutsch­land, whose rep­re­sen­ta­tives par­tic­i­pat­ed in a lead­er­ship del­e­ga­tion that con­vened twice year­ly to mon­i­tor CLAIM’s activ­i­ties. The net­work has exten­sive­ly lob­bied for polit­i­cal influ­ence in supra­na­tion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tive bod­ies, reg­u­lar­ly meet­ing with high-lev­el EU offi­cials and nation­al gov­ern­ment lead­ers. In March 2025, CLAIM, togeth­er with over 50 civ­il soci­ety orga­ni­za­tions, urged the Ger­man fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to pri­or­i­tize com­bat­ing anti-Mus­lim racism, cit­ing EU Agency for Fun­da­men­tal Rights data show­ing 68% of Mus­lims in Ger­many report­ing dis­crim­i­na­tion. In Sep­tem­ber 2020, the Ger­man Inte­ri­or Min­istry intro­duced an inde­pen­dent expert group on anti-Mus­lim hatred that fea­tured two CLAIM expert com­mit­tee mem­bers, demon­strat­ing the net­work’s suc­cess­ful advo­ca­cy for insti­tu­tion­al influence.

Exter­nal references:

• Reg­is­tere­in­trag CLAIM gGmbH
• Förderung der soge­nan­nten Allianz gegen Islam- und Mus­lim­feindlichkeit mit Bun­desmit­teln – Stand: 30. Sep­tem­ber 2025
• Antwort der Bun­desregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage des Abge­ord­neten Stephan Brand­ner und der Frak­tion der AfD

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