The terrorist Mohammad Safadi (ARD photo)
A few weeks after the 50th anniversary of the horrific disaster at the Munich Olympics, the German television network ARD aired a documentary this weekend on the subject of the massacre that took place, in which it interviewed one of the members of ‘Black September’ – the terrorists who carried out the massacre of Israelis and a German policeman.
Today it turns out that not only was the aging terrorist, Mohammed Safadi Shamu, asked to participate in a documentary, but he was also paid $2,000 for it. Moreover, in the framework of the existing interview it becomes clear that he did not regret his actions at all. In practice he bragged about the things he did and even stated that he does not regret it and would do it again and would even continue to kill Jews even today at his age.
This undoubtedly and very rightly provoked quite a bit of protest among the Jewish community in Germany and throughout several other countries. Today we receive the official response of the Conference of European Rabbis.
Chief of Staff of the President of the Conference of Rabbis of Europe and CEO of the conference, Gadi Gronich responded to the interview from Germany and said: “Although there is no shortage of scandals in public broadcasting in Germany, this time they managed to rise above and go one step further. It is one thing to give a platform to the assassin of the Olympic athletes, who is responsible for the death of 9 athletes and a German policeman, but an even more terrible thing is to allow him to feed the viewers his crude and anti-Semitic worldview that also calls for hatred of Israel. This is a slap in the face of the victims and their families, who were affected by the terrible attack. This was done with a lack of tact and without taste.”
To this he continued and added: “The public broadcaster needs to ask itself again which side it is on and which toxic narratives, coming from the Middle East, it chooses to carelessly and thoughtlessly adopt. These narratives unnecessarily fuel anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel in Germany. The public broadcaster It will only be possible to restore through a far-reaching reform that will include clear criteria for objective reporting and transparent working methods in order to ensure reliable reporting in the future.”
A response has not yet been published on behalf of the German broadcasting channel ARD, for asking Spadi to participate in a documentary, for paying him and for the things he shared as part of the filming.
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