Language:
German
Year of publication:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
24 (2015) 319-344
Keywords:
Antisemitism in the press
;
Antisemitism Political aspects
;
Right-wing extremists
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Journalism, Commercial
Abstract:
Presents results of a study on antisemitic arguments used by German right-wing elements to explain the international economic crisis which began in the summer of 2007, which was commissioned by the German Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. The study focused on three periodicals: the monthlies "Nation & Europa", which represents traditionalist, Nazi-oriented factions within the German extreme right, and "Deutsche Stimme", which serves as the mouthpiece of the National Democratic Party, and the weekly "Junge Freiheit", which represents the more intellectual spectrum within the German Right. All three portray themselves as experts in financial matters and use metaphors drawn from nature, especially metaphors associated with power or aggressive/predatory attributes, to describe the financial crisis. Antisemitism is openly and often aggressively articulated in "Deutsche Stimme" - however, less in articles on the economic crisis than in articles on Jewish organizations or persons. "Nation & Europa"'s narrative is dominated by conspiracy theories, antisemitic fantasies, and anti-Americanism. "Junge Freiheit" does not articulate antisemitism explicitly, but it can be deduced from certain patterns in argumentation and in metaphors. Concludes that all three journals use explicitly or structurally antisemitic arguments to explain the economic crisis of 2007, and this "semantic cover" further effects their structural patterns.
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