German journalist (Der Spiegel) condemned as anti-Semite
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based human rights organization, has placed German journalist Jakob Augstein on a list of top ten anti-Semites in the world. Many are puzzled in Germany.
It's not always an honor to be placed on an end-of-year top ten list. For German journalist and publisher Jakob Augstein, his position at number nine of the world's ten worst anti-Semites in 2012 has prompted outrage, incomprehension and a wave of allegations in Germany.
It puts him in a league with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which tops the list, and the Iranian regime. The list was compiled and published at the end of December by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), a Holocaust history museum and human rights organization.
The SWC bases its accusation against Augstein on five quotes. They are all extracts from opinion columns he writes for the online site of Der Spiegel, a German news weekly. In his columns, the journalist criticized Israel's foreign policy and defended a poem by Nobel laureate Günter Grass that is highly critical of Israel. He has also called Gaza a “place from the apocalypse of humanity.”
In November 2012 the 45 year-old, whose father Rudolf Augstein founded Der Spiegel, wrote, “But Jews have their own fundamentalists. They're only called something different - ultraorthodox or Haredim… They make up ten percent of seven million Israelis…These people are made of the same stuff as their Islamist adversaries.”
The Center was prompted to include Augstein by Hendryk Broder, a German publicist with a Polish-Jewish background. He is a well-known provocateur who once wrote, "The only reason [Augstein] didn't make a career with the Gestapo is because he was born after WWII."
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is based in Los Angeles
Well the German Der Spiegel made the top ten in something.. :) And numero uno for the Top Heretical bishops who allow the killing on unborn children. Repent, before its too late!
