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ADL slams German Spiegel author for anti-Semitism.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

JANUARY 5, 2013 16:03

The deputy national director of the New York-based Anti-Defamation League on Friday weighed in on the raging German dispute over the alleged anti-Semitism of Der Spiegel Columnist Jakob Augstein and his attacks on Jews and Israel. Augstein’s statement about Jewish control of US foreign policy, "crosses the line into anti-Semitic conspiracy thinking," Ken Jacobson, the ADL‘s deputy National Director, told The Jerusalem Post in a telephone interview.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center included Jakob Augstein in its list of last year’s (2012) top-ten anti-Semites. Jacobson, a leading expert on contemporary anti-Semitism, cited one of Augstein's quotes in the Wiesenthal list as being contaminated with conspiratorial anti-Semitism.

The quote from Augstein’s Spiegel column reads,“With backing from the US, where the president must secure the support of Jewish lobby groups, and in Germany, where coping with history, in the meantime, has a military component, the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash with an ever-swelling war chant.”

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