Feyza-Yasmin Ayhan is known by her stage name “Yasmin Poesy”, and for appearing as an anti-Semite, Israel-hater and Islamist sympathiser on public broadcasting and now even working for them as a professional. Since August 2021, she has been working as a writer for the German public broadcaster ZDF and Studio71, where she co-wrote the script for the sitcom “Barry’s Barbershop”.TE magazine published a series of her Israel-hating to anti-Semitic statements, and other media also made it a topic. But ZDF has so far shown little or no interest in it.
A few days ago, Yasmin Poesy made an absurd comparison that once again proves her hatred of the Jewish state of Israel: Regarding Putin’s war, she feels reminded of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), i.e. the Israeli armed forces that would allegedly put children “in jail”. Poezy’s statements could not be more bizarre. First she mentions her “prayers” for the people of Ukraine. Then she starts comparing Putin’s war first with the “2015 refugee crisis” and the war in Syria. And then she compares Putin’s terror in Ukraine with acts of the Israeli army – completely absurd:
“The situation in Ukraine is very unfortunate. Our prayers are with all the people who are suffering right now in this war. You have to say, the situation on the ground brings back a lot of memories for me. Reminds me of the refugee crisis in 2015, where Syrians had to flee their country because of the war there. Reminds me of Palestinian children being put in jail by the IDF.”
Yasmin Poesy criticises the fact that sanctions were “only” demanded for Russia. In her eyes, this is done for racist reasons. “A European human life is worth much more than a non-European one,” she insinuates. Yasmin Poesy gives the false impression that the IDF would put “Palestinian children” “in jail” out of pure aggression. This sweeping statement already verges on Hamas propaganda. The terrorist organisation Hamas has been distorting images of alleged IDF attacks on children or arrests of children for many years.
Of all people, children, i.e. the most vulnerable in the Israel-Gaza conflict, are used by the Islamist Palestinian terrorists for their propaganda. TE reported that in the course of the newly escalated Middle East conflict in May 2021, Yasmin Poesy called the IDF “terrorists” and posted the address of Israel’s embassy with the text: “Probably has an open ear for your concerns”. The claim that Palestinian children were being arrested and murdered must be seen in the context of the anti-Semitic ritual murder legend, according to which Jews are greedy for children’s blood, which they would slaughter on Passover. Meanwhile, the anti-Semitic slogan “child murderer Israel” has become entrenched at almost every pro-Palestinian demonstration.
The IDF arrests Palestinian children not out of arbitrary action, but for crimes committed. For example, Palestinian children – i.e. under 18 years old – are sent forward by militant Palestinian organisations and abused to throw stones at Israeli civilians. Between 2005 and 2010, hundreds of Palestinian minors were arrested and charged for this.
We pay with our broadcasting fees for a ZDF author, who has repeatedly attracted attention for anti-Semitism, who draws the grotesque comparison of the cruel Putin war with the Israel Defence Forces. With this comparison, Poesy suggests that the Jewish state of Israel is not a democratic state, but just as much an aggressor as Putin’s Russia. At the same time, Poesy is relativising the criminal attack on Ukraine.
Other people in broadcasting have also attracted negative attention since the Ukraine war. For example, the broadcasting journalist Malcom Ohanwe of Bavarian Broadcasting (BR), whose favourite topic is racism, posts confusing statements on his social media accounts. His statements are meant to be anti-racist, however, in a way they appear racist. On Twitter, he wrote:
“If a black person blanketly calls ethnic Ukranians, Russians Albanians, Ashkenazi Jews, Syrians to be ‘ whites’, they are entitled to do so. We cannot impose a Eurocentric view on African or South Asian people. Things are relative.”
So the Broadcast Journalist claims that it would be okay to call Ashkenazi Jews ” whites”. Does it occur to the broadcast journalist that this is a racist classification of the largest ethno-religious group in Judaism today?