Henryk Broder
Henryk Marcin Broder (born 20 August 1946), self-designation Henryk Modest Broder, is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and television personality. Broder is especially interested in Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Islam, Israel, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He sees a close relationship between German criticism of Israel's policies and antisemitism.
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- Henryk M.
- Birth Name
- Henryk Marcin Broder
- Born
- 20 August 1946
- Birthplace
- Katowice, Poland
- Occupation
- Journalist, author
- Nationality
- Germany · Polish People's Republic · Israel
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Henryk Marcin Broder (born 20 August 1946), self-designation Henryk Modest Broder, is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and television personality. Broder is especially interested in Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Islam, Israel, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He sees a close relationship between German criticism of Israel's policies and antisemitism.
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Henryk Broder (born 1946) is a director, essayist and film director, among other activities, of German and Israeli nationality. The director was born Henryk Marcin Broder in Katowice.
Henryk Broder was educated at University of Cologne. The director worked for Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag and worked in Cologne.
Languages used include German, Hebrew and Polish. Honours include Bavarian TV Awards, Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism and Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Literature, among others.
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• Name — Henryk M. Broder • Birth Name — Henryk Marcin Broder • Born — 20 August 1946 • Birthplace — Katowice, Poland • Occupation — Journalist, author
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Ever since Operation Entebbe, Broder grew more and more critical of the German approach towards Israel, and what Broder sees as appeasement towards Islamic threats. In Broder's opinion, anti-Zionism is in essence antisemitic. Broder is also associated with the blog Politically Incorrect and the counter-jihad movement.
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Accusation of antisemitism
In 2006 a German court sentenced Broder to a term in prison after he had publicly accused anti-Zionists like the Dutch-German Jew Hajo Meyer and Abraham Melzer for their putative "capacities for applied Judeophobia" (Kapazitäten für angewandte Judäophobie) because they had compared the Israeli occupation policy to measures taken by the Nazis. On appeal, a court mostly cleared Broder, stating that there was such a thing as "Jewish anti-Semitism."
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• Wer hat Angst vor Pornographie? Ein Porno-Report, Melzer, Darmstadt 1970 • As co-author: Die Schere im Kopf. Über Zensur und Selbstzensur, Köln 1976 • Danke schön. Bis hierher und nicht weiter. Mit Beiträgen von Detlef Hartmann, Ulrich Klug, Uwe Maeffert, Ulrich Vultejus, Konkret Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1980 • Der Ewige Antisemit. Über Sinn und Funktion eines beständigen Gefühls, 1986 • Fremd im eigenen Land. Juden in der Bundesrepublik, 1987 • Ich liebe Karstadt und andere Lobreden, 1987 • with Geisel, Eike: Premiere und Pogrom. Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933–1941. Texte und Bilder, Siedler, Berlin 1992 • Erbarmen mit den Deutschen, 1993 • Schöne Bescherung! Unterwegs im Neuen Deutschland, 1994 • Volk und Wahn, Goldmann, München 1996 • Die Juden von Mea Shearim, 1997 • Die Irren von Zion, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1998 • Jedem das Seine, Ölbaum Verlag 1999 • www.deutsche-leidkultur.de, Ölbaum Verlag 1999 • Kein Krieg, nirgends: Die Deutschen und der Terror, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002 • A Jew in the New Germany, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2003 • Hurra, wir kapitulieren – Von der Lust am Einknicken, wjs Verlag, 2006 • Kritik der reinen Toleranz, wjs Verlag, Berlin 2008 • Vergesst Auschwitz! Der deutsche Erinnerungswahn und die Endlösung der Israel-Frage, Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich 2012
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• Ach So! Gad Granach und Henryk Broder on Tour, CD, Ölbaum-Verlag, Augsburg 2000,
In der Reihe Zu Gast bei DECIUS las Henryk M. Broder im DECIUS-Haupthaus in der Marktstraße 52 in Hannover unter anderem aus seinem Buch Die letzten Tage Europas...
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Henryk Broder was born on 20 August 1946.
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- 1.Grosser, Alfred. Verschleierung als Methode. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 1 September 2008.
- 2.Wir sind alle traumatisiert (We all are traumatised): "Der Antizionismus ist für Nichtjuden wie für Juden nur eine Ausrede, ihren Antisemitismus sozusagen in einer politisch aseptischen Form präsentieren zu können. Kein Mensch geht hin und sagt: Ich bin Antisemit. Es gibt keinen Antizionismus, der seinen Ursprung nicht im Antisemitismus hätte ...Dass in einer aufgeklärten Diskussion alle Positionen vertreten werden können, ist selbstverständlich. Kritik an Israel ist vollkommen selbstverständlich." (Antizionism is for Jews and non-Jews just a pretext to present antisemitism in a political aseptical version. Nobody just comes around saying "I am an antisemite." There is no Antizionism which doesn't have its origin in antisemitism [...] It's a matter of course that in an enlightened argument any position can be held. Criticism of Israel is a matter of course.)
- 3.Wäckerlig, Oliver. Das Fanal von Wangen: Der Schweizer Minarettdiskurs - Ursachen und Folgen. Akademikerverlag. 88. 2014. 978-3-639-49757-1.
- 4.Hannes Stein, 'Wer ist Antisemit? Henryk M. Broder und Hajo Meyer vor Gericht,' Die Welt 10 January.2006
- 5.'Broder darf Verleger keine Judenfeindlichkeit unterstellen,' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 27 January 2006.
- 6.Yves Pallade, ' "New" Anti-Semitism in contemporary German academic,' Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. 21, No. 1/2 (Spring 2009), pp. 33-62 op.39
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