A German free speech activist has requested political asylum in the United States because of the persecution she’s facing at home.
Activist Naomi Seibt, who’s known abroad as the “anti-Greta” for questioning climate zealot Greta Thunberg’s climate orthodoxy, recently applied for asylum in America under Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, according to Fox News.
In the application, Seibt alleged that — despite her feeling great pride at being a German — returning to Germany in the current political climate would mean risking imprisonment or even physical violence.
Made in Germany pic.twitter.com/GT80GJx9SQ
— Naomi Seibt (@SeibtNaomi) October 26, 2025
“I have now applied for asylum, which means that I’m waiting for an interview,” she told Fox News. “And, in the meantime, I’m here legally. My goal in the meantime is to become an American citizen in the future because this country has given me so much hope.”
Some of that hope has come from Elon Musk.
“I made a post during the European elections in June 2024, where I said, my name is Naomi Seibt, and I’m voting for the AfD, and that was the very first time that Musk interacted with me,” Seibt recalled. “Elon privately messaged me on X about the AfD.”
“Over the course of last year, I was obviously retweeted a lot by Elon Musk, and I interacted with him personally in private messages just about what’s going on in Germany,” she added.
In fact, he’s part of the reason she decided to seek asylum.
“Elon has been terrified to go to Europe and knows that there is an extremely high threat and has confirmed this to me personally,” she revealed. “That’s when I made the decision to apply for asylum myself. He gave me his approval for that.”
Unlike in the States, where she’s experienced hope, she’s experienced nothing but a nightmare in Germany.
“In 2024, I found out that I had been spied on by German intelligence for years,” she alleged. “Simultaneously, I keep receiving death threats from Antifa.
“I went to the German police, and they told me that they can’t do anything about it as long as I have not actually been raped or killed. I am not getting protection from the German government even though I am at major risk of potentially being killed,” she added.
HOW I ESCAPED GERMANISTAN
After years of surveillance, defamation and Antifa d*ath threats, I fled to the USA.
AfD candidate @Frohnmaier_AfD interviewed me about my story from to America.
Now I am a proud international representative for @Deu_Kurier! pic.twitter.com/xN6gulxO7l
— Naomi Seibt (@SeibtNaomi) October 20, 2025
Meanwhile, even though it’s evidently legal for Antifa terrorists to issue death threats against her in Germany, it’s not legal for anyone to talk the slightest smack about the country’s political leaders.
“It is illegal to damage the reputation of a politician in Germany,” Seibt explained. “This law was extended under Angela Merkel’s Article 188, and now people are being arrested. And their houses are being raided for just social media posts. As soon as I come back to Germany, I feel that they will try to arrest me.”
Seibt first started to draw attention in 2020, when she began criticizing the climate change and mass migration policies supported by Thunberg.
“I had started becoming known and internationally recognized as the anti-Greta Thunberg in 2020,” she said.
But she doesn’t like this alias.
“I was barely 19 years old and never expected to be recognized as a right-wing figure,” she said. “The German media called me the anti-Greta, they demonize me as the anti-Greta, like an anti-Christ for Greta Thunberg.”
“I’m Naomi Seibt and want to be recognized as who I am because I’m not just some puppet poster figure for the right wing,” she added.
They used to call me “Anti-Greta Thunberg” for calling out fraudulent Climate Scientism. But I am not just some right-wing opposition puppet.
My name is Naomi Seibt, thank you very much. pic.twitter.com/PaVnubZcyH
— Naomi Seibt (@SeibtNaomi) September 27, 2024
Seibt’s application for asylum will likely be approved thanks to a change to the asylum process made by President Donald Trump.
Under the Trump administration, America is now prioritizing asylum for those facing persecution specifically on the grounds of political speech and opposition to government censorship.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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