This German ‘progressive’ liberal daily is one of the most read papers in Germany. The SZ is considered, together with the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung and Die Welt as one of three nationwide quality papers.
It is for psychologists to assess how much the cartoonist was influenced by the thoughts of the Nazi period which he lived through at school age.
n fact, the daily’s incitement has a lengthy history. In 2013, the SZ published a caricature from Ernst Kahl of a monster with two horns which was on the verge of eating. The accompanying caption said: “Germany serves. For decades Israel is served, partly without payment, with weapons.”
The assumption that Germany could rid itself of anti-Semitism in less than 75 years after committing a genocide of such impact is an illusion.
Right wing anti-Semitism has been exposed in the German media for many years. Since December 2017, after the burning of a homemade Israeli flag in Berlin by German Muslims, Muslim anti-Semitism is also regularly condemned by leading German politicians.
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