New Islamism scandal among the public broadcasters.
ZDF has brought a well-known Islamist and Israel-hater on board. Feyza-Yasmin Ayhan has been hired as a comedy writer for the sitcom “Barrys Barbershop”. The early 20-year-old (stage name: Yasmin Poesy) has a reputation as an Islamist activist and Israel hater.
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The Berliner posted an anti-Semitic cartoon on social media showing hook-nosed Jews. In 2015 she appeared at the Hamas-affiliated German Youth for Palestine, justified violence against Israel and wished for an end to the Jewish state.
▶ ︎ During the Gaza war in May, she called for hate demos against Israel and spoke there. While anti-Israel demos escalated again and again and there were anti-Semitic riots, Ayhan wrote on Instagram: “Arab demos BEST always a lot of energy and a little party”.
There are numerous hate postings against Israel on Instagram.
Ayhan, for example, spoke of an allegedly “ill-sized lobby” owned by the Jewish state. She thanked the musician Roger Waters (78) for his statement that Israel was an “apardheid state”, although Waters is also a prominent supporter of the BDS anti-Semitic boycott campaign.
Ayhan declared that she had nothing against Jews, but scolded confidently: “BUT FCK ZIONISM”.
Ayhan posted this on Instagram after a hate demo in MayPhoto: yasminpoesy / Instagram ZDF Yasmin Poesy
ZDF confirmed BILD: “Feyza-Yasmin Ayhan has been part of the five-person team of authors for the sitcom project that is currently being produced in Berlin by the Studio71 production company since August 2021.”
The broadcaster does not see a problem in the author’s extremist views in a royalty-financed production. A ZDF spokeswoman on BILD: “Basically, all productions commissioned by ZDF are editorially checked and their content approved.”
Ayhan shared this anti-Semitic cartoon on InstagramPhoto: yasminpoesy / Instagram
An almost identical answer also came from the production company. They value freedom of expression, but condemn “resolutely any form of discrimination and racism”. And: “Our productions are editorially checked and approved both by us and by the respective client.”
Strong criticism comes from politics. CSU member of the Bundestag Florian Hahn (47) calls the “attitude of employees with repulsive anti-Semitic clichés” at the public broadcaster “absolutely unacceptable”.