German media’s anti-Palestine purge

By highlighting the German media’s “Anti-Arab purge” in a recent statement, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor gave a name to something that has been occurring in this country for years: a particularly German obsession with using anti-Semitism accusations to silence Arab voices. The inability, or refusal, to distinguish between anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and pro-Palestinian positions is one of German public discourse’s defining traits, as journalists and politicians obsess about anti-Semitism within migrant communities, rather than accurately reporting news related to Israel-Palestine. The two rec…

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