cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/29428215
The German government has quietly cut funding for Zochrot and New Profile, following an earlier defunding of Palestinian NGOs. Some observers fear the move will shrink space for those critical of the Israeli government.
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250105121210/https://www.dw.com/en/germany-defunds-2-israeli-human-rights-groups/a-71217628
Oh Germany is defunding actual human rights groups which advocate for Palestinians, instead of those “non profits” which buy weapons for IDF soldiers. That is more in line with my expectations.
Leave it to Germany to find the worst way to end a headline starting with “X country defunds 2 Israeli”.
Fuck Israel.
Am I wrong in assuming your name is Israeli?
LOL nice one
Not so quietly anymore. Whoops!
Honestly what confuses me right now is DW not just reporting on this, but actually being on the investigative forefront, why they’re actively bringing stuff to the light that the foreign ministry would rather have under the rug. For the unaware: DW is state media operated by the federal level, not allowed to broadcast within Germany both because it’s federal and insufficiently independent.
I may have actually underestimated their willingness to have their editorial policy follow German foreign policy doctrine as opposed to the foreign ministry’s policy. Which in this case don’t really line up which is why the foreign ministry wants to keep things quiet.
…or such a rift exists within the foreign ministry and one side is backstabbing the other by sending discrete notes to DW. In any case, well done. Not the cutting funds part, of course, the other thing.
Overall I’ve been routinely surprised that dw seems to be doing far more neutral reporting and investigative journalism regarding israel than the supposedly independent ÖR, where most of what I’ve seen feels rather biased.
Maybe it really is some internal strife, or maybe DW just employs better journalists sticking to their ethics, or a mix of things.
