Source: The Local
German journalist and publisher Jakob Augstein is one of the top ten worst anti-Semites in the world – at least according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a US Jewish human rights organisation which included him in their 2012 “top ten” offenders.The Simon Wiesenthal jury said it had based its decision on German publisher and broadcaster Henryk M. Broder’s description of Augstein as a “perfect anti-Semite.”
The two men entered into a spat last autumn when Broder took issue with what he described as anti-Semitic comments in articles Augstein had written for Der Spiegel magazine.In his writing Augstein supported the controversial position taken by German author Günther Grass that as a nuclear power Israel presents a threat to world peace. Elsewhere, Augstein made a direct comparison between ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews – who make up 10 percent of the Israeli population – and Islamic fundamentalists.