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Few writers have stung Germany's conscience more than Henryk Broder, The Local's German of the week. The prickly polemicist has sparked controversy by encouraging journalist Jakob Augstein be included in a top list of anti-Semites.
Broder unleashed the latest in a career of firestorms recently after Jewish human rights organization the Simon Wiesenthal Center took his claims that Der Spiegel columnist Jakob Augstein was so anti-Semitic that it put the journalist on their "2012 Top Ten Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Slurs."
Not even the German Jewish Council believes the mainstream left-winger and Israel critic Augstein deserved to be lumped with the likes of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. But that probably wouldn't bother Broder much.