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The decision to include Jakob Augstein on the annual list of the worst anti-Semites was meant to draw attention to the growing problem of European journalists whose obsessive criticism of Israel frequently crosses the line into blatant anti-Semitism.<\/em><\/p>\n

German Journalist Among Top Ten Anti-Semites of 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soeren Kern | Gatestone Institute<\/a> | January 10, 2013<\/p>\n

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based Holocaust history museum and human rights organization, has placed the German critic of Israel, Jakob Augstein, on a list of top ten anti-Semites in the world.<\/p>\n

Augstein, a journalist who owns the left-wing weekly Der Freitag<\/em><\/a> and who writes an opinion column for the German news magazine Der Spiegel<\/em><\/a>, is known in Germany and elsewhere for his anti-Israel tirades.<\/p>\n

The decision to include Augstein on the annual list of the worst anti-Semites<\/a> was meant to draw attention to the growing problem of European journalists whose obsessive criticism of Israel frequently crosses the line into blatant anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n

But rather than acknowledge that anti-Semitism often masquerades as anti-Zionism, many German media elites (particularly those on the political Left, who are not accustomed to accountability, especially from American Jews) have defaulted to attacking the messenger.<\/p>\n

Most of Augstein\u2019s defenders insist that his criticism of Israel does not qualify as anti-Semitism and that the Wiesenthal Center was wrong to place Augstein in the same league as Egypt\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood, which tops the list, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who comes in at number two.<\/p>\n

If so, at what point does anti-Zionism become anti-Semitism<\/a>?<\/p>\n

In an interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit<\/em><\/a>, the associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, said criticism of Israel becomes anti-Semitism when it passes the \u201c3-D\u201d test. According to the \u201c3-D\u201d formulation, which was conceived by the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Natan Sharansky, individuals meet the criteria of modern anti-Semitism when they demonize, delegitimize and apply double-standards to the Jewish state. Augstein clearly meets the \u201c3-D\u201d threshold, in Cooper\u2019s view.<\/p>\n

The Wiesenthal Center bases its accusation against Augstein on five quotes, which are taken from various columns in which he not only criticizes Israeli foreign policy, but also repeats conspiratorial anti-Semitic canards and defends an anti-Semitic poem by the German Nobel Prize-winning novelist G\u00fcnter Grass, who has denounced Israel as a threat to world peace.<\/p>\n

In one quote, Augstein employs the anti-Semitic canard of a powerful Jewish lobby controlling the world. He writes: \u201cWith backing from the US, where the president must secure the support of Jewish lobby groups, and in Germany, where coping with history, in the meantime, has a military component, the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash with an ever-swelling war chant.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another quote, Augstein accuses an \u201cinsane and unscrupulous\u201d Israel of fomenting civil violence in many parts of the Middle East. He writes: \u201cThe fire burns in Libya, Sudan, Yemen, in countries which are among the poorest on earth. But those who set the fires live elsewhere. Furious young people burn the American, and recently, the German flag. They, too, are victims, just like the dead at Benghazi and Sanaa. Who does this all this violence benefit? Always the insane and unscrupulous. And this time it\u2019s the US Republicans and Israeli government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Augstein also equates ultraorthodox Jews with Islamist terrorists. He writes: \u201cBut the Jews also have their fundamentalists, the ultra-orthodox Haredim. \u2026 They are cut from the same cloth as their Islamic fundamentalist opponents. They follow the law of revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Says Cooper<\/a>: \u201cWhen you conjure up the image of Islamic extremists, whose major contribution to the world has been suicide bombings, extremism and hatred, and then you take an entire religious community and you stereotype them, then that has nothing to do with journalism. Thus, a limit is exceeded.\u201d<\/p>\n

In yet another quote, Augstein writes: \u201cIsrael\u2019s nuclear power is a danger to the already fragile peace of the world. This statement has triggered an outcry because it\u2019s true. And because it was made by a German, G\u00fcnter Grass, author and Nobel Prize winner. That is the key point. One must, therefore, thank him for taking it upon himself to speak for us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grass, in his controversial prose poem titled \u201cWhat Must Be Said<\/a>,\u201d engages in moral equivalence by comparing Israel to Iran, even though Israel has never threatened to wipe another country off the map, as has Iran. Grass, who in his youth was a member of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi party\u2019s SS paramilitary unit, also says a military action against Iran would lead to the \u201cannihilation\u201d of the Iranian people, even though it is Iran which has threatened to annihilate Israel.<\/p>\n

German newspapers have jumped to Augstein\u2019s defense and have sought to deflect the blame by pillorying the Wiesenthal Center. As a consequence, the debate in Germany has focused not on Augstein\u2019s attacks on Israel, but rather on the Wiesenthal Center\u2019s \u201cattack\u201d on Augstein.<\/p>\n

In the words of Alex Feuerherdt<\/a>, a German journalist who has written extensively about contemporary anti-Semitism in Germany, \u201cthe issue now is not anti-Semites but those who criticize the anti-Semites.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Augstein\u2019s defenders, the Wiesenthal Center is to blame because while compiling its list it sought the advice of a certain Henryk Broder<\/a>, a well-known Polish-born German essayist who has long sought to hold Augstein accountable for his anti-Israel rants.<\/p>\n

Broder, who writes a regular column for the center-right newspaper Die Welt<\/em>, once wrote: \u201cThe only reason why [Augstein] did not make a career with the Gestapo is because he was born after WWII. He certainly would have had what it takes.\u201d Broder has also called Augstein a \u201cpure anti-Semite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leaping to Augstein\u2019s defense, the center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/a> writes: \u201cThe choice of Jakob Augstein for ninth place on the list of the 10 worst anti-Semites is a serious intellectual and strategic error made by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Not only has a critical journalist been placed in a group into which he doesn\u2019t belong, the nine other people and groups who have justifiably been pilloried can now exculpate themselves by pointing to such arbitrariness.\u201d<\/p>\n

By contrast, the Berlin-based Die Welt<\/em> published an editorial titled \u201cAugstein\u2019s Defenders are Blind in the Left Eye<\/a>,\u201d which says that although the Wiesenthal Center might have gone too far in placing Augstein on its list, Augstein does indeed cross the line into anti-Semitism in his criticism of Israel. Die Welt<\/em> writes: \u201cHe [Augstein] attempts to morally discredit Israel, to hollow out its legitimacy and to make it a pariah among nation-states just as Jews were a pariah among the peoples of Europe not that long ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Berlin-based German Jewish newspaper Die J\u00fcdische Allgemeine<\/em><\/a>, the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, said that although he was not in total agreement with the Wiesenthal Center\u2019s decision to include Augstein on their annual list, he said Augstein has an \u201cIsrael obsession\u201d and \u201cspreads anti-Jewish resentments in an irresponsible manner.\u201d Graumann added that Augstein\u2019s columns are \u201chorrible and undifferentiated\u201d and contribute to an \u201canti-Israel atmosphere\u201d in Germany.<\/p>\n

For its part, the Wiesenthal Center is not backing down. In an interview with the German news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur, Rabbi Cooper said: \u201cJust because he is a journalist, we are not giving Mr. Augstein license to say what he wants and to hide behind journalistic integrity. His statements are incorrect and baseless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to German Radio Deutschlandradio<\/a>, Cooper says: \u201cAugstein is a major player in German journalism who is accountable to no one. Maybe this is the problem. Augstein does not have to submit his writings to anyone before they are printed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Augstein sees himself as the victim. On his Facebook page<\/a> he writes: \u201cThe Simon Wiesenthal Center is an important, internationally recognized institution. It deserves all my respect for its work on the fight against anti-Semitism. It is all the more distressing when this struggle is weakened. This is necessarily the case when critical journalism is defamed as a racist or anti-Semitic.\u201d<\/p>\n

A report titled \u201cEuropean Anti-Semitism Reinvents Itself<\/a>\u201d puts things in perspective. Published by the American Jewish Committee, the report reads: \u201cLeft-leaning Judeophobes, unlike their predecessors of a century ago, never call themselves \u2018anti-Semitic.\u2019 Indeed, they are usually indignant at the very suggestion that they have something against the Jews. Such denials notwithstanding, they are usually obsessed with stigmatizing Israel. The dream of the far left has long been to dissolve the hated \u2018Zionist entity\u2019 and, in the name of human rights, make the world Judenstaatrein<\/em> [literally, cleansed of a Jewish state]. Thus, they deny to the Jewish people a fundamental human and political right that they would militantly defend for nonwhite peoples — above all, the Palestinians — namely, the right to national self-determination. This anti-Zionism of the radical leftist camp, profoundly discriminatory toward Jewish nationalism, has now spread into the mainstream liberal left, whose rhetoric relentlessly seeks to undermine the moral and historic legitimacy of a Jewish state. Liberal leftists portray Israel as a state born of the \u201coriginal sin\u201d of displacing, expropriating, or expelling an \u201caboriginal\u201d population.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report continues: \u201cNot only that, but they attribute to the Jews and Israel qualities of cruelty, brutality, bloodthirstiness, duplicity, greed, and immorality drawn straight from the arsenals of classic anti-Semitism. Such polemics transcend the question of double standards. They go far beyond the long-established media practice of singling out Israel for savage criticism never applied to any other nation-state. Indeed they constitute a clear case of negationism — denying the humanity of Israelis in order to stigmatize, defame, and morally disintegrate the Jewish state, as a prelude to its physical destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soeren Kern<\/em><\/a> is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based <\/em>Gatestone Institute<\/em><\/a>. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat\u00e9gicos \/ Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on <\/em>Facebook<\/em><\/a> and on Twitter<\/a>.
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