Anti-Semitism suspected among “Deutsche Welle” employees – Journalists of the Arabic editorial office have made anti-Semitic statements in the past.

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  1. Translation:

    > Anti-Semitism suspected among “Deutsche Welle” employees
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    > Several employees of the Arabic editorial office of “Deutsche Welle” have made anti-Semitic statements in posts on the internet in the past. This is what the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” writes in its Wednesday edition, citing an extensive evaluation of a large number of social media posts and articles published in Arabic media. One editor, for example, called the Holocaust on Facebook an “artificial product” and wrote that the Jews would continue to control “people’s brains through art, media and music”.
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    > Another employee wrote columns in an Arabic-language newspaper before her time at the German foreign broadcaster, which is financed with almost 400 million euros of taxpayers’ money, and wrote there, among other things: “If the Islamic State were fighting for liberation in Palestine, I would revise my judgement of it, its men and its financiers. And if it kicked the Israelis out of the Holy Land, I would be in its ranks.” One of the channel’s correspondents wrote of a “barbaric war machine” in a tweet suggesting a reference to Israel, while a freelancer at Deutsche Welle’s academy, which operates independently of the editorial office, tweeted, “The Holocaust is a lie #FreedomOfSpeech.”
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    > The two journalists stated that their remarks were to be understood as advocacy for freedom of speech or taken out of context, writes the SZ. A spokesperson for the broadcaster also wrote the latter in a statement in relation to Facebook posts by an employee, which, according to information from the SZ, were pointed out to the editorial management at least twice by internet users. As a result of the SZ enquiries, some affected employees deleted their accounts or individual posts in the social media. But too late: according to the newspaper, it was able to secure the statements in question and many others in advance via screenshot. Deutsche Welle (DW) is the foreign broadcaster of the Federal Republic of Germany and a public institution.
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    > Translated with DeepL

  3. > journalists stated that their remarks were to be understood as advocacy for freedom of speech

    Will that wash? Wouldn’t in a different context.

  4. Mmm, technically Arabs are semitic people as well. Anti-semitic can be lazy wording or code for jew-hating. We should probably stop using the term “anti-semite” as it is unnecessarily vague about who your hating. If someone doesn’t like Jews, we should just call them a jew-hater, not try to couch it in obsolete academic jargon.

  8. I just have to,lol every time I read something like this. Of course extreme left Germany would never dare say anything to the poor Muslims

  9. Can we please find a different group of people to hate? Antisemitism is soooo last century.

    Maybe the Swiss? We could recycle most stereotypes about international finance and such.

  10. Reverse antisemitism via migration. Germany’s historical guilt leads them to an open-door policy and an open-door policy leads to antisemitism. Irony.

  11. Same thing happened to a Pakistani CNN freelancer – he wrote posts praising Hitler and then blamed “Zionism” when they fired him

  12. Germany is becoming too scared to push back against intolerance, their tolerance of it breed intolerance, in a sad and somewhat ironic way. If you want a tolerant society, you need guts, convictions and morals, ask Sweden’s women and LGBT people how much fun tolerance of intolerance is.

  13. Usually im very suspicious of headlines like that because 99% of the time i see innocent posts that just say anything really thats not positive about jews or israel and they call it antisemitic.

    But this time theres no question that these people made statements that justify their firing. Supporting terrorism and denying genocide, no matter which terrorist group or which recognized genocide, is definitely a good justification

  14. I suspect most Germans are sensible on such matters and hold neither extreme far leftist or far right opinions on such matters but are too cowared to speak lest they be accused of being an extremist. Can the real Germans please stand up because your country is kind of important and has a little historical problem of going balls to the wall and spewing the collateral damage onto the rest of Europe because your political pressure cooker popped.

    edited for spelling and grammar errors, I’m sure there is more but I’m out of fucks

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