Left-Extremist Endeavours

way it is intended to erode the inviolable principles of human
dignity and equal treatment.
Anti-Semitism In addition, the DVU advocates an underlying anti-Semitism,
which is typical of right-wing extremists. In headlines and articles
appearing in close sequence, the weeklies disseminate
messages with anti-Semitic undertones, which suggest that the
German people was being prevented by the Jews, in particular,
from coming to terms, once and for all, with the German past and
from joining the international community as a member enjoying
equal rights. The publications dealt with the alleged over-presentation
of persons of Jewish faith or of Jewish descent in politics,
in trade and business and in the media, and with Jewish
organizations; they condemned German payments of reparations,
and gave polemic comments on events in Israel. While the
derogatory criticism of Jewry usually is subtly hidden between
the lines, the abundance of pertinent articles clearly shows that
the reader is to be made aware of a threatening influence exerted
by anti-German Jews, in the sense of a conspiracy theory.
An article entitled "The costs we have to pay for Jews from the
CIS" warned against their "mass immigration" 29) .
Numerous articles fomented anti-Semitic manipulatory propaganda
against representatives of Jewish institution, e.g. against
Ignatz Bubis, the President of the Zentralrat der Juden in
Deutschland (Central Council of Jews in Germany), who died in
August 1999, and against the member of the Presidency of the
Central Council, Michel Friedman 30) .
After the death of Bubis, the DNZ and NZ carried a serial in six
parts, entitled "Who was Bubis really? - Facts concealed from the
German people", which in concentrated form continued past attacks:
"What Bubis was most concerned about, however, was to
place the burden of ’collective responsibility’ and ’collective
liability’ for the historical NS [Nazi] wrongs on all future
generations of Germans, and to keep the German people in a
state of original sin for all time to come. ... In order to have
national masochism proliferate further, Bubis directed his
apprehensive attention to the emergency of German
[nationalist] trends and parties in Germany."
(NZ, no. 37/1999, p. 12)
"Whenever the question of additional reparation payments
came up, Bubis was on the spot at once. He was dead set
against discontinuing payment of such tribute in the
foreseeable future. ... In addition to the more than 5000
existing memorial sites for the victims of German atrocities, he
kept demanding new memorials of this type to commemorate
our disgrace. He wouldn’t think of making such demands on
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