The journalist Nemi El-Hassan attributes the debate about her possible employment as moderator of the WDR magazine “Quarks” to a “campaign” by the Bild newspaper and is convinced that this was induced by right-wing extremist circles.

So she explains it in a guest article for the Berliner Zeitung.

“There is a line between critical journalistic work and a targeted campaign to dismantle a person. This limit was exceeded in my case, ”writes El-Hassan. The Bild newspaper has carried a narrative initiated by right-wing extremist Internet activists into the public. Research by Zeit Online showed how the campaign had been "prepared for a long time".

Meanwhile, she apologized for participating in the Al-Quds demonstration in 2014.

"The WDR - in the hope of pulling itself out of the line of fire - joined all the arguments of the 'Bild' newspaper and thus also opened the door to future campaigns." In the debate, voices were "deliberately ignored".

In addition, there was “no honest discourse” on how to differentiate anti-Semitism from positions critical of Israel.

Most recently, the former Israeli ambassador Avi Primor and the historian Moshe Zimmermann rated Nemi El-Hassan's Internet likes as not anti-Semitic (FAZ, October 18).

El-Hassan's employment at WDR is pending.