DW published an article on May 28 titled “Narendra Modi’s victory worries Indian Muslims.” Modi was reelected prime minister of India in a landslide victory in May. The DW article quoted Asaduddin Owaisi, a politician from the Muslim All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Party.Uniyal pointed out Owaisi’s antisemitic comments, in which the Indian politician wrote, “Zionists & Sanghis natural allies made for each other common hatred for Muslims.” Sanghis is a bigoted term for Hindu nationalists. Embedded in Owaisi’s antisemitic tweet was a picture of Modi wearing a kippah with a Star of David on it, and a yellow Star of David imposed on a crowd in the background.Hello @iUniyal, blocking people goes against our own DW social media standards - so it seems we blocked you by mistake. We've unblocked you now. Please accept our apologies.
— DW News (@dwnews) June 19, 2019
DW made no reference to Owaisi’s history of Jew-hatred in its article.Uniyal, who has written extensively about antisemitism, told DW, “[This] despicable antisemite is your source.”DW was embroiled in an alleged anti-Israel scandal last year for publishing an antisemitic commentary against the Jewish state. According to Values Initiative, a German Jewish group, Bettina Marx, the head of the Ramallah office of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation – who has faced criticism over the years for alleged hardcore anti-Israel sentiments – wrote a one-sided commentary in DW on June 9 that blamed only Israel for a collapse in peace talks with the Palestinians.Values Initiative listed a series of alleged factual errors in Marx’s text. Marx claimed Israel “annexed” West Jordan and the Gaza Strip in 1967, while Adler and Sandra Kreisler from Values Initiative pointed out that Israel’s seizure of those areas took place in the context of a war launched by Jordan and Egypt.You attack India and this despicable antisemite is your source!Shame on German government broadcaster @DeutscheWelle pic.twitter.com/sDvynxxx2L
— Vijeta Uniyal (@iUniyal) May 28, 2019