Harald Martenstein leaves the »Tagesspiegel« (archive picture)
Photo: Uwe Zucchi / picture alliance / dpa
The journalist Harald Martenstein will no longer write for the Berlin daily newspaper Tagesspiegel.
He announced this in a final column on page one of Sunday's edition.
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The starting point was a controversial column from February 6th.
In it, Martenstein described the wearing of Jewish stars at Corona demonstrations as “certainly not anti-Semitic”, even if it was presumptuous, trivializing and difficult for survivors to bear.
As a result, the editors-in-chief distanced themselves from the article and withdrew it online.
"I was not involved in this decision," Martenstein now writes in what is currently his last contribution to the "Tagesspiegel".
»Something like this usually means that you separate, I made the decision to do so.«
He also responds to the criticism.
"As always, I wrote what I think." People who use Jewish stars to stylize themselves as victims are stupid and forgetful of history.
"I haven't changed my mind."
Martenstein also writes as a columnist for the magazine of the weekly newspaper »Die Zeit«.
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