Noussair Mazraoui from FC Bayern Image: dpa
While Hamas terror threatens the sport of Jewish clubs in Germany, opinion entrepreneurs are working on footballers’ posts. That doesn’t show a lot of interest in the problem and the thing itself.
With its terror, Hamas has also reached sports in Germany – at least in the sense that Jewish clubs can no longer rely on the fact that their events here are safe. That is a big problem.
But the next smaller problem is that in this situation, the journalistic resistance of some German opinion entrepreneurs against this present is limited to scrolling through X (formerly Twitter) and then marking and commenting on who, in their view, supports terror.
“Terror supporter” – this is how Noussair Mazraoui, the FC Bayern Munich soccer player, is portrayed in a comment by “Bild” sports director Walter Straten because of sharing pro-Palestinian posts. And “Welt” editor-in-chief Ulf Poschardt asks Mazraoui on his X channel: “Is he now losing his residence permit? Serious question.”
Christopher Meltzer, Munich Published/Updated: Recommendations: 12 Michael Wittershagen Published/Updated: Recommendations: 8 Christopher Meltzer Published/Updated: Recommendations: 56 Daniel Theweleit Published/Updated: Recommendations: 6
Serious answer: Anyone who publishes in this complex debate in such an under-complex way, even on X, is interested in everything but one thing: the problem and the matter itself.
