Some journalists and intellectuals are the target of strong campaigns in Germany against their supposed antisemitism. But in addition to the unbridled Islamophobia that these media denunciations reveal, it is in reality voices critical of Israel, including Jewish and Israeli ones, that find themselves pilloried. Germany’s vigilance against antisemitism would seem admirable. The German state and civil society seem to have achieved something remarkable: linking an institutionalized culture (.)
A court in Germany has declared that Deutsche Welle unlawfully fired a Palestinian journalist based on false accusations of anti-Semitism. Maram Salem was among a group of Arab journalists fired by the government broadcaster following an official.