Yesterday and today, German media are reporting a brutal attack on an Israeli tourist in Berlin. The victim of this diverse enrichment should have been told beforehand that as a Jew in Berlin Kreuzberg it is better not to reveal oneself as such and rather refrain from talking loudly on the phone in Hebrew.
The young Israeli could not have known this and so the confrontation with three Arabs ended in hospital. Accordingly, only the newspaper BILD reported objectively that it was three Arabs who beat up the 19-year-old and kicked the man who was lying on the ground.
Manipulation by omission
Of course, the incident does not fit the picture that is constantly being painted: the evil German right-wing extremist anti-Semite is always threatening Jews, while the Arab migrant is inherently noble and good. And the reporting in most mainstream media looks accordingly – the origin of the perpetrators is covered up. But not only that: they try to “somehow” question the motive for the crime, in this case hatred towards Jews. It then reads like this:
“… possible anti-Semitic background”.
“… From the emergency room of a hospital, the man called the police. The State Security Service has started an investigation into dangerous bodily harm with a possible anti-Semitic background”, rbb24 informs us (editor’s emphasis).
At faz.net, the origin of the perpetrators is also not known, and the information is as follows: “… A 19-year-old tourist from Israel has filed a complaint against three men who allegedly attacked and knocked him down in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. Investigators are looking into an anti-Semitic background.”
The newspaper Berliner Zeitung reports:
“A dangerous assault has occurred in Kreuzberg. Possibly the motive was anti-Semitism – the State Security is investigating.” That sounds like: they don’t know why the Israeli was beaten up, but “possibly” there was an anti-Semitic background. Well, who would have imagined that, that’s not possible.
A particularly cunning act of framing, i.e. by changing the frame of reference and point of reference, is provided by the left-leaning newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung: Of course, there is also nothing about the origin of the perpetrators, but in the online edition (see screenshot below), immediately after the end of the article, a link is presented, including a photo, where the anti-Semitism of the Nazis is reported. The motto is: we should not be distracted by incidents like the one in Berlin and get evil ideas, but we should always be reminded who the real perpetrators are, shouldn’t we!
