Friday Apr 17, 2009
Posted by Benjamin Weinthal
Benjamin Weinthal is the Jerusalem Post correspondent in Germany. In addition to covering Germany, Benjamin reports on Austria and Switzerland. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of New York University where he received a BA in Philosophy. He earned a Master of Philosophy in European Culture and Literature from the University of Cambridge in England.
BERLIN - The topsy-turvy events of 2008, including an unprecedented German-Israeli diplomatic crisis provoked by Chancellor Angela Merkel administration's decision to approve a more than 100 million euro trade deal to build three gas plants in Iran, consumed my reporting at the time; this deal reflected the common phenomenon in Germany, where I live and work, of playing down anti-Semitism worldwide, including Iran's genocidal threat to Israel and dictatorial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's persecution of his country's small Jewish community.
A deeply moving, but highly disturbing, Jerusalem Post column by this paper's editor-in-chief David Horovitz in late February 2008 (When Jewish communities lose their voices), which dealt with rising anti-Semitism in Venezuela, stoked by Hugo Chavez, reminded me of my attempt to draw attention to the precarious situation of Venezuela's Jews and Chavez's state-sponsored anti-Semitic campaign. A little over a year before David published his column, I found myself in the position of the messenger who is attacked for blowing the whistle on a reporter's anti-Semitic article. I had uncovered a journalist writing freelance articles for the main German Jewish paper while simultaneously filing an anti-Jewish article for a hardcore anti-Israeli leftist German daily.
Thursday Sep 18, 2008
Posted by Amir Mizroch
The Jerusalem Post's News Editor, Amir Mizroch, is currently in Germany for the German-Israeli Young Leaders Exchange 2008 with 10 other people from Israel to explore German-Israeli relations.
Read their group blog to get a glimpse of their experiences around Germany, the program and each other.
Amir Mizroch writes his own blog at Forecast Highs where he's also written about the program.
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Roddy Frankel: Even if the silly accusation about Lieberman being a bouncer were true, so what?! There is no shame in that occupation. It takes courage in the face of violence to be a bouncer. Sounds like an admirable quality for a FM who must confront Israel's barbaric enemies.
GEORGE TORONTO: we need a pm like him in ISRAEL. only a very strong and a zionist leader can save israel !!!
Eliot Waterman, London: When will sloppy reporters like Mizroch stop perpetuating slander which they read somewhere on wikipedia? Lieberman was never a bouncer in a club in Moldavia, full stop. This is ludicrous how rumours get started and then no one cares to check the facts anymore. Finally, he is not Russian or Moldovan - he is an ethnic Jew born in the MSSR.
The article is so seething with hate for Lieberman, I had to rub my eyes a number of times in disbelief. Lieberman is a sensible man, not a brute, and he speaks the truth and the language of the Middle East, which Mr Mizroch still has trouble understanding.
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