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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
On Monday, 7 February, Deutsche Welle (DW) announced the findings of a two-month report into allegations of anti-Semitism within its Arabic-language news department. Those tuning in were promptly told that five DW journalists had been sacked. The grounds for their termination, which the fired journalists were told about only hours earlier, were outlined in a report released the same day. But lawyers who have since studied that report say there are serious faults with how the investigation was conducted. “The report itself goes beyond the employees’ dismissals and tells journalists how they sho…