State broadcaster ZDF allowed its chief correspondent, Elmar Thewessen, to claim – falsely – that Kirk had called for “stoning homosexuals”. And then came the digital chorus of mockery: T-Online’s Lars Wienand quipped, “Part of Liberty? Maybe this shocking murder will make the US Right rethink its gun laws”. Felix Schulz, spokesman for the Left-wing die Linke party’s leader, tossed out a meme reading, “Oh no! Anyway”. The comedian Sebastian Hotz (“El Hotzo”), a darling of public service satire, posted a famous TV chimpanzee named “Charly” with the caption “Rest in Peace”. Even when the country’s most decorated presenters attempted...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
