Henryk M. Broder
Henryk Marcin Broder, self-designation Henryk Modest Broder, is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and television personality. He was born into a Jewish family in Katowice, Poland.
Broder is especially interested in Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Islam, Israel, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He sees a close relationship between German criticism of Israel's policies and antisemitism.
Career
Views
Ever since Operation Entebbe, Broder grew more and more critical of the German approach towards Israel, and what Broder sees as appeasement towards Islamic threats. In Broder's opinion, anti-Zionism is in essence antisemitic.Broder is also associated with the blog Politically Incorrect and the counter-jihad movement.
Accusation of antisemitism
In 2006 a German court sentenced Broder to a term in prison after he had publicly accused anti-Zionists like the Dutch-German Jew Hajo Meyer and for their putative "capacities for applied Judeophobia" because they had compared the Israeli occupation policy to measures taken by the Nazis. On appeal, a court mostly cleared Broder, stating that there was such a thing as "Jewish anti-Semitism."Reception
Broder's attitude is controversial. Stefan Niggemeier wrote in the context of right-wing populist statements: "Henryk M. Broder is also a victim of Thilo Sarrazin. For years he has been striving to become the republic's chief provocateur."Works
Wer hat Angst vor Pornographie? Ein Porno-Report, Melzer, Darmstadt 1970- As co-author: Die Schere im Kopf. Über Zensur und Selbstzensur, Köln 1976Danke schön. Bis hierher und nicht weiter. Mit Beiträgen von Detlef Hartmann, Ulrich Klug, Uwe Maeffert, Ulrich Vultejus, Konkret Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1980Der Ewige Antisemit. Über Sinn und Funktion eines beständigen Gefühls, 1986Fremd im eigenen Land. Juden in der Bundesrepublik, 1987Ich liebe Karstadt und andere Lobreden, 1987
- with Geisel, Eike: Premiere und Pogrom. Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933–1941. Texte und Bilder, Siedler, Berlin 1992Erbarmen mit den Deutschen, 1993Schöne Bescherung! Unterwegs im Neuen Deutschland, 1994Volk und Wahn, Goldmann, München 1996Die Juden von Mea Shearim, 1997Die Irren von Zion, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1998Jedem das Seine, Ölbaum Verlag 1999www.deutsche-leidkultur.de, Ölbaum Verlag 1999Kein Krieg, nirgends: Die Deutschen und der Terror, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002A Jew in the New Germany, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2003Hurra, wir kapitulieren – Von der Lust am Einknicken, wjs Verlag, 2006Kritik der reinen Toleranz, wjs Verlag, Berlin 2008Vergesst Auschwitz! Der deutsche Erinnerungswahn und die Endlösung der Israel-Frage, Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich 2012