Jungle World

German left-wing weekly newspaper

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Jungle World

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	Jungle World Verlags GmbH
Founded	1997 (1997)
Political alignment	Left-wing, Anti-German
Headquarters	Berlin
Circulation	16,000 (2020)
Website	jungle.world

Jungle World is a left-wing German weekly newspaper published in Berlin. Initially founded in 1997 by striking editors of the German left-wing daily Junge Welt,^[1] it became independent after only a few issues. Today, it is published by the Jungle World Verlags GmbH in the names of over thirty current and former authors, editors, and staff as well as friends of the newspaper.

Jungle World is known for its anti-nationalist and cosmopolitan positions reflect those of the "undogmatic left" in Germany.^[2] The articles are published in the weekly's online edition in the days after publication. According to the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, the newspaper regularly picks up questions of the Far Left Anti-German spectrum, and contains references to Far Left activities.^[3] The newspaper has regular writers who are Anti-Germans.^{[citation needed]}

Since its re-launch on its tenth anniversary in 2007, Jungle World features two sections: the outer concerns mostly political news and analysis on German and international matters, as well as debate, the inner section provides cultural and literary criticism, biting satire, and a longer piece in the form of a dossier. Since April 2008 its website has also run a series of blogs.^[4]

Positions

A founder and co-editor of Jungle World referred to the paper in 2007 as "explicitly anti-anti-Zionist, anti-anti-Semitic, and anti-anti-American."^[5] Activists who call themselves anti-imperialists have been accused of being nationalistic by the newspaper.^[6]

Reception

Texts published in Jungle World are regularly presented in the feuilleton overview Heute in the feuilletons of Perlentaucher and Spiegel-Online.^[7]

When, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jungle World also published articles approving of military action by Western states against al-Qaida or the Taliban, the newspaper was criticized by Alfred Schobert [de] in the anti-militarist magazine Graswurzelrevolution.^[8] The newspaper received a large amount of criticism among the Left in Germany due to its opaque stance on the upcoming Iraq War in 2002 and its criticism of then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's use of anti-war politics in his re-election campaign of the same year.^[9] A strong point of contention among the German Left is its pro-Israel position.^[10]

Authors who belong to the anti-German political spectrum also regularly have their say.^{[citation needed]} On the one hand, Jungle World has been criticized by the magazine Bahamas,^[11] which is generally classified as "anti-German". On the other hand, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Brandenburg categorized the newspaper as one of the most important publications of the Anti-German milieu.^[12]^[13]^[14]

References

^ Simon Erlanger, "'The Anti-Germans' – The Pro-Israel German Left," Archived 17 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Jewish Political Studies Review 21:1-2 (Spring 2009).
^ Schon drei Jahre "Jungle World", die Zeit, 33/2000 (in German)
^ Yücel, Deniz (9 January 2012). "Kristina Schröder und Linksextremismus: Die Ministerin weiß von nichts". Die Tageszeitung: Taz.
^ "Do Swidanja!". www.falter.at. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
^ Letter from Berlin: The anti-anti-Zionists, Haaretz.com, 7 August 2007.
^ "Linke Bellizisten auf Gespensterjagd". 31 January 2002.
^ Heute in den Feuilletons, spiegel.de, retrieved 20 October 2015.
^ Alfred Schobert: Linke Bellizisten auf Gespensterjagd. In: graswurzel.net. 1 February 2002, retrieved 28 August 2020.
^ Die Diskussion der deutschen Linken um die Haltung zum Nahostkonflikt am Beispiel der Wochenzeitung "Jungle World", D-A-S-H., Dossier #7: Analysen und Statements zum Nahostkonflikt aus deutscher Sicht, 2005 (in German)
^ Simon Erlanger, "'The Anti-Germans' – The Pro-Israel German Left," Archived 17 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Jewish Political Studies Review 21:1-2 (Spring 2009).
^ Mut. Klartext. Jungle World Redaktion BAHAMAS, 20. November 2002
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 June 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ http://www.bpb.de/themen/KMT3BZ,1,0,Antiimperialistische_und_antideutsche_Str%F6mungen_im_deutschen_Linksextremismus.html (retrieved 12 August 2010)
^ https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article7601135/Franziska-Drohsel-die-radikale-Gefuehlssozialistin.html (retrieved 15 August 2010)