{{Short description|German journalist (born 1946)}} {{Expand French|topic=bio|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Henryk M. Broder | image = Henryk M. Broder, hier zur Lesung in der Reihe ZU GAST BEI DECIUS, Marktstraße 52 in Hannover am 5. September 2013.jpg | alt = | caption = Broder on 25 September 2013 | birth_name = Henryk Marcin Broder | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1946|8|20}} | birth_place = Katowice, Poland | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=y|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Journalist, author | known_for = }} '''Henryk Marcin Broder''' (born 20 August 1946), 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/antisemitismusstreit-verschleierung-als-methode-1680791.html |title=Verschleierung als Methode |first=Alfred |last=Grosser |newspaper=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |date=1 September 2008 |language=de}}</ref>
==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.<ref>[http://www.hagalil.com/archiv/2006/07/selbsthass.htm Wir sind alle traumatisiert] (We all are traumatised): "Der Antizionismus ist für Nichtjuden wie für Juden nur eine Ausrede, ihren Antisemitismus sozusagen in einer politisch aseptischen Form präsentieren zu können. Kein Mensch geht hin und sagt: Ich bin Antisemit. Es gibt keinen Antizionismus, der seinen Ursprung nicht im Antisemitismus hätte ...Dass in einer aufgeklärten Diskussion alle Positionen vertreten werden können, ist selbstverständlich. Kritik an Israel ist vollkommen selbstverständlich." (Antizionism is for Jews and non-Jews just a pretext to present antisemitism in a political aseptical version. Nobody just comes around saying "I am an antisemite." There is no Antizionism which doesn't have its origin in antisemitism [...] It's a matter of course that in an enlightened argument any position can be held. Criticism of Israel is a matter of course.)</ref>
Broder is also associated with the blog ''Politically Incorrect'' and the counter-jihad movement.<ref>{{cite book|title=Das Fanal von Wangen: Der Schweizer Minarettdiskurs - Ursachen und Folgen|first=Oliver|last=Wäckerlig|year=2014|page=88|publisher=Akademikerverlag|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260115101|isbn=978-3-639-49757-1}}</ref>
===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 {{ill|Abraham Melzer|de}} for their putative "capacities for applied Judeophobia" (''Kapazitäten für angewandte Judäophobie'') because they had compared the Israeli occupation policy to measures taken by the Nazis.<ref>Hannes Stein, [https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article189802/Wer-ist-Antisemit-Henryk-M-Broder-und-Hajo-Meyer-vor-Gericht.html 'Wer ist Antisemit? Henryk M. Broder und Hajo Meyer vor Gericht,'] Die Welt 10 January.2006</ref><ref>[https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/urteil-broder-darf-verleger-keine-judenfeindlichkeit-unterstellen-1302166.html 'Broder darf Verleger keine Judenfeindlichkeit unterstellen,'] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 27 January 2006.</ref> On appeal, a court mostly cleared Broder, stating that there was such a thing as "Jewish anti-Semitism."<ref>Yves Pallade, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25834824 ' "New" Anti-Semitism in contemporary German academic,'] Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. 21, No. 1/2 (Spring 2009), pp. 33-62 op.39</ref>
== Reception == [[File:Boerne-preis-2007-ffm010.jpg|thumb|Broder receiving the 2007 Ludwig-Börne-Preis]] 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."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Henryk M. Broder – Stefan Niggemeier|date=5 September 2010 |url=http://www.stefan-niggemeier.de/blog/10041/henryk-m-broder/|access-date=2022-02-14|language=de-DE}}</ref>
== Works == * ''Wer hat Angst vor Pornographie? Ein Porno-Report'', Melzer, Darmstadt 1970 * As co-author: ''Die Schere im Kopf. Über Zensur und Selbstzensur'', Köln 1976 * ''Danke schön. Bis hierher und nicht weiter. Mit Beiträgen von Detlef Hartmann, Ulrich Klug, Uwe Maeffert, Ulrich Vultejus'', Konkret Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1980 * ''Der Ewige Antisemit. Über Sinn und Funktion eines beständigen Gefühls'', 1986 * ''Fremd im eigenen Land. Juden in der Bundesrepublik'', 1987 * ''Ich liebe Karstadt und andere Lobreden'', 1987 * with Geisel, Eike: ''Premiere und Pogrom. Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933–1941. Texte und Bilder'', Siedler, Berlin 1992 * ''Erbarmen mit den Deutschen'', 1993 * ''Schöne Bescherung! Unterwegs im Neuen Deutschland'', 1994 * ''Volk und Wahn'', Goldmann, München 1996 * ''Die Juden von Mea Shearim'', 1997 * ''Die Irren von Zion'', Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1998 * ''Jedem das Seine'', Ölbaum Verlag 1999 * ''www.deutsche-leidkultur.de'', Ölbaum Verlag 1999 * ''Kein Krieg, nirgends: Die Deutschen und der Terror'', Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002 * ''A Jew in the New Germany'', University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2003 * ''Hurra, wir kapitulieren – Von der Lust am Einknicken'', wjs Verlag, 2006 * ''Kritik der reinen Toleranz'', wjs Verlag, Berlin 2008 * ''Vergesst Auschwitz! Der deutsche Erinnerungswahn und die Endlösung der Israel-Frage'', Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich 2012
=== Audio === * ''Ach So! Gad Granach und Henryk Broder on Tour'', CD, Ölbaum-Verlag, Augsburg 2000, {{ISBN|3-927217-40-9}}
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== External links == {{Commons category|Henryk M. Broder}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100430172702/http://www.achgut.com/dadgdx/index.php/author/mbroder Henryk Broder's page] at ''Die Achse des Guten'' * [http://crossroads.journalismcentre.com/2007/review-the-last-days-of-europe-a-lecture-in-maastricht-by-german-journalist-and-writer-henryk-broder/ Review: The last days of Europe, a lecture in Maastricht by Henryk Broder], 28 February 2007 *[https://www.faz.net/s/RubCF3AEB154CE64960822FA5429A182360/Doc~E6120A6560BB94FCBB91B5686F14BA1BC~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html Broder's speech] at the 2007 Ludwig-Börne-Preis {{in lang|de}}
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