Wiesenthal List Of Top Ten Antisemites Creates Uproar In Germany

In Wiesenthal Center's list of 2012 Top Ten Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Slurs, featured as #9 is the influential German media personality Jakob Augstein, the owner and editor of Der Freitag Weekly and contributor to Spiegel Online, based, among other things, the following quotes taken from Spiegel Online:

• “With backing from the us, where the president must secure the support of Jewish lobby groups, and in Germany, where coping with history, in the meantime, has a military component, the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash with an ever-swelling war chant.”
  
  
• “Israel’s nuclear power is a danger to the already fragile peace of the world. This statement has triggered an outcry. Because it’s true. And because it was made by a German, Guenter Grass, author and Nobel prize winner. That is the key point. One must, therefore, thank him for taking it upon himself to speak for us all.”

Wiesenthal Center's Top 10 Anti-Israel and Antisemitic Haters Of Jews And Israel

Yesterday, the Simon Wiesenthal Center released its list of the top 10 antisemites and haters of Israel: 2012 Top Ten Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Slurs: Mainstream Anti-Semitism Threatens World Peace:

The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s 2012 Top Ten Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Slurs exposes the growing menace of Jew hatred from people and movements who wield real power.

With Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as #1, and the Iranian regime a close second, most of the other empowered anti-Semites are from Europe, where, as memory of the Nazi Holocaust fades, age-old anti-Semitism has returned with a vengeance and where a new generation of politicians are gaining political power by repackaging classic anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Here is the list, followed by an embedded copy of the Wiesenthal Center's report: