Antisemitismus im deutschen Mediendiskurs: Eine Analyse des Falls Jakob Augstein

Anti-Semitism has often being articulated in public discourse recently, without being criticised as such. A prominent example of this tendency is the much read weekly column in the online issue of the SPIEGEL-magazine by the journalist Jakob Augstein, in which he recurrently articulated (and still articulates) anti-Semitic stereotypes and anti-Israel resentment. Yet it wasn't before the Simon Wiesenthal Center's (SWC) publication of the "Top Ten Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Slurs 2012", in which Augstein took 9th place, that an lifely debate arouse in the German public discourse. In this media debate, however, most contributors sweepingly defended Augstein and avoided a substantive discussion on anti-Semitism. In this book, Augstein's columns and the Augstein-debate are subjected to a critical analysis corncerning anti-Semitism. Based on these analyses, verbal patterns and discoursive strategies of anti-Semitism in the German media discourse are pointed out.