Germany’s public broadcaster has announced it will show a documentary on anti-Semitism in Europe after accusations of political censorship, The Times of Israel reported Monday.
The documentary titled “Chosen and Excluded – Jew Hatred in Europe,” directed by Joachim Schröder and Sophie Hafner, has become the subject of great controversy over the last five months.
The documentary was originally commissioned and approved by Germany’s public broadcaster WDR on behalf of its partner channel Arte. The Franco-German TV network, however, refused to show the documentary over accusations of pro-Israel bias in violation of production guidelines.
Julian Reichelt, Bild’s editor-in-chief, raised the suspicion that the documentary was being withheld to hide inconvenient truths about modern-day anti-Semitism in Europe. “It is suspected that the documentary is not being shown [on television] because it is politically unsuitable and because the film shows an antisemitic worldview in wide parts of society that is disturbing,” Reichel wrote on Bild’s website.
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