The legal confrontation between Henryk M. Broder and Evelyn Hecht-Galinski ends pretend for the time being and will continue
The journalist Henryk M. Broder is known for his sharp polemics and respected, paid, delivered or hated depending on the political gusto. Especially with the critics of Israel, Broder, who has changed from the moderate antizionist to the unconditional friend of Israel in the last 25 years, is particularly hard to court.
It is not surprising that amit is occasionally connected to lengthy legal disputes. That the youngest controversy a lot of swirls excluded, was on the person of Broders counterpartin. Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, the daughter of the long-term chairman of the Central Council of the Jews Heinz Galinski, always occurs as a critic of Israeli politics and also the Central Council of the Jews in the media.
In turn, Broder was not pleased. So he commented an invitation of the WDR to Hecht-Galinski in an email to the director so. "Everyone who became two thousand in the blood even recognized at Weiberfastnacht that Ms. EHG (Evelyn Hecht-Galinski) is a hysterical, purpose-exercise housewife, the for no one speaks auber for himself, and there are only nonsense from herself. Your specialty are anti-Semitic anticionist thoughtlessness."
Hecht Galinski countered with an interim borrowing against the anti-Semitism reproach. Last Wednesday, the 28 spoke. Civil chamber of the Kolner Landgericht A judgment that values both sides as relative success. It decided that Broder in the present case may not be maintained the anti-Semitism accusation, as long as he had not been buried. Generally, a critical examination with galinzi positions will not be prevented. But it must be an argumentative examination of their position recognizable. Otherwise, the exertion exceeds the border for Schmahriktik. A general ban on Broders Auberung did not speak the court. Nevertheless, Hecht-Galinski was satisfied: "I am a buriness very much. Therefore, because Broder and his helpers have tried in vain in the last few days, an extremely strong media prere on the court and to remove me by means of further vibrations."
Broder responded to the usual polemic: "63 years after the end of the Nazi area, it seems to be an open question, which is Jewish Hate."But since only fragments remained from the original preliminary boring frightening, he was satisfied. He will continue to pursue his journalistic activity as he is offered "for and adequate" reasoned, rally Broder.
What is anti-Semitism?
But between Hecht-Galinski and Broder, the legal thaw will continue. In the main proceedings, the evidence required by the civil chamber for his anti-Semitism reproach against his opposite. Here an exciting confrontation was still imminent. In fact, a scientific and political ie, where a legitimate israel criticism ends and the anti-Semitism begins, the Broder tangled in his statements mercourally on Jewish Hate. This is amazing in view of the extensive anti-Semitism research of recent years, which has just attentively made sure that anti-Semitism is so little fixing at the hatred of Jews, such as racism in the popular hassle’s popular hassle.
The MediaProfi Broder must also ask if he was really well advised to act against a media appearance of his opponent. Missing a man like him the means to counter Hecht-Galinski — also with much polemics — in terms of content? If it falls Broder, who is rightly resisting a muzzle, not that he wanted to hide such a Hech-Galinski with his intervention? So we need manner and women from the format of a Broder with his polemic language, so embarrassing you will, if you leave the field of polemics and yourself into the crowd of the series, demand the occurrence bans . A polemic is just something other than bullying or picking.
This behavior as well as its characterization of Hecht-Galinski as a valor housewife broden has brodtitiated. So the sociologist Michal Bodemann is written in Berlin and Toronto:
Especially in the InternetMilieu, which grouped around Broder, the mitters are still far beyond the anti-Semitism accusation. Because not only under each stone is searched for anti-Semites as once in the usa of firty years under McCarthy to Communists. There, as in every witch hunting, the prepayment attempts and insults are personal when Henryk M. Broder about Mrs. Hecht-Galinski as "Hysterical, purposeful housewife" (Alice Schwarzer, where stay?) Abbot. Here you would like to remind the words of the lawyer Joseph Welch, which this McCarthy during his appealed hearings "It is enough. Do not have a decency firing, my Lord?? Do not have a decency?
Dispute among Jews?
In the media, the current dispute is often pointed out with the legal confrontation between Broder and publisher Abraham Melzer. Broder polemically not only imprisoned in the near the anti-Semitism, but of right-wing extremism. On the one hand, the comparison offers because it goes in both cases around Broders dealing with actual or supposed anti-Semitism.
The note that here two Jews living in Germany argue in court, mutates a bit strange. What should be so remarkable? Finally, Christians are in favor of German civil courts, without the fact that religion is particularly noted. That people of Judian faith for Israeli politics and the Central Council of the Jews have different positions, should also be noted as a fact in Germany. However, from Broder, who looks through in his polemics, that it is particularly apparent when Judinns and Jews are representing a position to Israel, which Broder has taken himself 25 years ago.