Josef Braml considers himself an expert on the US – and as usual for “US experts” in Germany, his daily routine essentially consists of ranting about neoliberalism and Trump. He is therefore the ideal guest for the German broadcaster ZDF-Morgenmagazin hosted by Dunja Hayali on Friday. Braml is supposed to comment on US President Biden’s trip to Israel, where he announces that he will essentially continue the pro-Israeli policies of his predecessor.
A real German US expert naturally finds such a thing terrible, absolutely terrible.
He is warming up: “If the US and Israel agree that Iran should not get a nuclear weapon, then we can expect worse.” I think you can’t spontaneously imagine anything worse than poor Iran being cheated out of its beautiful nuclear bombs by the US.
This time, however, Braml overdid it even by standards of German public broadcasting. “I don’t think the Palestinians expected much more. America has long since abandoned its role as an honest broker,” he analyses. According to Braml, however, these foreign policy events have mainly domestic political reasons. As a non-US expert, one is astonished! But Braml quickly enlightens the viewer with his wisdom.
Braml explains these “domestic political reasons” as follows: “It’s not only the Jewish lobby, but also the Christian right-wingers. They have a certain expectation of salvation and Jerusalem plays a very important part in that.”
Excuse me? On German public television, the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of the infiltration of US politics by an alleged “Jewish lobby” is apparently being spread openly, in the same category as ” right-wing Christian” promises of salvation?
Dunya Hayali reacts skilfully, of course: smiling, she announces the transition to the next topic. As a farewell, she wishes the US expert, once again declared as such, a good day. The programme continues.
For public broadcasting, this is no longer an isolated case. The fight against Israel fits perfectly into the leftist, anti-Western world view. Even in purely linguistic terms, the incitement seems to know no bounds. Supposedly, criticism of Israel has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. Strangely enough, they don’t even refer to the “Israeli lobby”, but to the “Jewish” lobby. On ZDF, this kind of talk goes unchallenged. Because anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists – they are always the others.
https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sentials/zdf-morgenmagazin-juedische-lobby-unwidersprochen/