Produziert die Logik des Journalismus Anti-Israelismus? Von den Schwierigkeiten, aus Israel zu berichten

Inside the Antisemitic Mind : The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany

“…The quotations are intended to provide factual support for the author's hostile statements: (125) As factual legitimation for his accusation, "You are the real terrorists, " the author of (126) quotes in full a German Press Agency report, which he introduces by writing "as the following report clearly proves": But in most cases the authors do not quote the reports in full but only the passages they consider relevant, or only the parts that support their own position; what we have are thus partial and often decontextualized quotations. Whether the often-mentioned change of heart is or was actually (and exclusively) caused by reports in the media, as the author of (127) For some years now scholars (and journalists) have been studying the extent to which trends in the German media's reporting have contributed significantly to creating an emotionally and cognitively distorted image of Israel and helping to promote antisemitic thinking (see, e.g., Dichanz and Breidenbach 2001;Faber 2002;Jäger and Jäger 2002;Behrens 2003;Sahm 2006;Langenbucher and Yasin 2009;Schapira and Hafner 2010;Schwarz-Friesel 2013b;Beyer 2013; see also Beyer's exhaustive study [2015]). A comparative analysis of texts in our e-mail corpus and texts from the media has shown that in these two discursive types one can find numerous convergences in the way conceptualizations hostile toward Israel are expressed (see Beyer and Leuschner 2010).…”