Knaul, who is the Israel-based correspondent for taz, wrote: “It is possible to come to terms with the missiles on Israeli villages close to the border. Public buildings are safely constructed. The population is protected, receive tax breaks and is used to sirens that have been roaring regularly for years.”Knaul has faced criticism for her anti-Israel reporting for over a decade.In 2017, Sigmount Königsberg, the commissioner on antisemitism for Germany’s largest Jewish community in Berlin, told The Jerusalem Post “Susanne Knaul legitimizes terrorism.”Knaul previously sparked outrage over her commentary declaring “Jerusalem is not Berlin” when evaluating the morality of vehicular terrorist attacks that took place in both cities. It is a “fact that there are reasons for the desperation which motivate Palestinians to suicide attacks,” she wrote. Knaul cited the “occupation” and “injustice” as ostensibly legitimate reasons to murder Israeli soldiers.In January 2017, a Palestinian drove his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers, murdering four of them in attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was “part of the same pattern inspired by the Islamic State.” In 2016, an Islamic State supporter rammed his truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people, including Israeli Dalia Elyakim.Michaela Engelmeier, a Social Democratic deputy in the Bundestag, told the Post in 2017 that Knaul, “with her tendentious statements, pours more oil into the fire of antisemitism and legitimizes violence against Israelis.”Post press queries to Knaul and the editor-in-chief of taz, Georg Löwisch, were not immediately returned.Mit solchen journalistischen Standards werden wir uns niemals arrangieren. @susanneknaul @tazgezwitscher @PresseratDE pic.twitter.com/p1ayi9902V
— Botschaft Israel (@IsraelinGermany) March 27, 2019
German Journalist says Israelis can get use to Hamas rocket fire
Israel’s embassy slams left-wing journalist Susanne Knaul.
