Martin Lejeune (activist)

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Martin Lejeune (born July 27, 1980 in Hanover ) is a German political activist and former journalist.

biography

Lejeune grew up in Nuremberg and Bielefeld . He acquired the general university entrance qualification on the second educational path . From 2004 on he studied political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin . He had not completed his degree by the end of 2017. In early July 2016 , Lejeune converted to Sunni Islam . At the end of 2017 he was awarded the negative golden aluminum hat; he was the second winner to receive it himself.

journalism

From 2007 to 2014 he worked as a freelance journalist. To do this, he traveled to Syria in 2013 and to the Gaza Strip in 2014 . His reports were mostly published by the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland , as well as by the Junge Welt and in the taz .

At the beginning of the NSU trial , Lejeune lodged a constitutional complaint during the controversy over journalist accreditation after losing his accreditation in the repeat procedure. The Federal Constitutional Court rejected the complaint as unfounded. In 2017 Lejeune reported for the Turkish news agency Anadolu .

Controversy

During the Gaza conflict in 2014 , Lejeune was accused of adopting the positions of the terrorist organization Hamas in its reporting . Deutschlandradio canceled orders due to doubts about his independence . In addition, statements by Lejeune turned out to be false, such as the statement that he was the only German journalist in the Gaza Strip between July 7, 2014 and August 3, 2014 because the permanent correspondents of the German media were not allowed to travel there for security reasons.

The scandal came after Lejeune had published a post about the execution of alleged collaborators, which was later changed several times, in his blog: A letter distributed at the places of the executions stated that the 18 accused had been questioned without the use of coercion or violence and made confessions.

“Of the 18 collaborators, however, had received their death sentences before Operation Protective Edge broke out , imposed by the ordinary Palestinian courts. Everything completely legal. [...] it was carried out on Friday. […] The families concerned were informed discreetly and the children of the age of 18 are treated like the children of martyrs, i.e. financially and socially cared for. It all happened very socially. "

Lejeune was then often referred to as "Hamas press spokesman". In the media magazine Meedia , Stefan Winterbauer wrote that Lejeune was "adopting the view of Hamas in an unbearable way". The taz journalist Pascal Beucker wrote: "There are journalists who work as war reporters. And there are combatants who write." In Cicero , Petra Sorge wrote that the freelance journalist sketched the terrorist killing machine in the form of minutes, almost in bureaucratic German. He does not question whether the courts are legitimized at all.

At the end of May 2016, Lejeune, by his own admission as a journalist, accompanied an aid convoy from the Salafist association Ansaar International to the Syrian border. In his contributions, published exclusively on social networks, he defended the work of the association. When he wanted to moderate an Ansaar International press conference in a Düsseldorf hotel in November 2016, he was banned from the house after he had previously expressed doubts about the Holocaust in a video and said that he could only wish to rescue the Palestinians affected by the forest fires in Israel 2016 , but not the Jews . The fires are the "punishment of God for the prohibition of the call to prayer ". He later apologized publicly; he had no doubts about the cruel extermination of millions of Jews by the Germans.

In April 2018, the Turkish ruling party , the AKP , ended its cooperation with Lejeune, after claiming in a Twitter message that President Erdoğan would end the secular republic and introduce the caliphate after the new president was elected in June .

activism

Since the Gaza conflict in 2014, Martin Lejeune has been advocating for pro-Palestinian issues; Since the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016 , Lejeune has been supporting and defending the policies of Turkish President Erdoğan and his AKP party . He often causes a stir with controversial statements and actions.

Pro-Palestinian activism

Lejeune was a speaker at the Al Quds Tags rallies in London and Berlin in 2015 ; he spoke in Berlin in 2016 as well. He described the Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip as genocide . In 2016, he distributed a questionnaire among the participants in Berlin in which, among other things, they asked about the attitude towards the Federal Government's Israel policy, alcohol consumption in public spaces and the involvement of secular courts in family matters.

During the counter-demonstration against the Al Quds Day rally in 2016, he was taken away by police officers after he had tried for minutes to involve Senator for the Interior Frank Henkel against his will in a conversation. Lejeune accused Henkel, who appeared as a speaker at the counter-demonstration, of violating his duty of neutrality as a public official.

Lejeune had announced a rally near the Holocaust memorial in Berlin on July 8, 2016 . He wanted to read out the names of "2,200 Palestinians killed" in the 2014 Gaza conflict . After public criticism, the event was banned at the planned location in the name of the Berlin police chief and Lejeune was instead assigned the intersection of Wilhelmstrasse and Behrenstrasse in front of the British embassy .

Activism for the Turkish President Erdoğan

As a speaker at a major rally in Cologne at the end of July 2016, he praised the Turks as the “savior of democracy in Europe” and accused the German media of inciting against Turkey and Islam.

In the election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2016 , he stood for the Erdoğan-affiliated Alliance for Innovation and Justice (BIG) in the Neukölln 3 constituency . With 73 votes, he achieved 0.4 percent and thus 3.0 percentage points less than the BIG applicant in the previous election.

At the Berlin Half Marathon in April 2017, he tried to engage participants in conversations who wore solidarity t-shirts for the journalist Deniz Yücel , who was then imprisoned in Turkey . Lejeune wore a T-shirt from which he had cut out the appeal for solidarity for Yücel and held out an Erdoğan poster to those addressed. A video later published on social networks shows how Lejeune leaves the running track with broken glasses and a slight injury in the nose area and then accuses police officers of shouting "Nazi" or "Stasi methods".

Especially on Twitter, Lejeune repeatedly caused a stir with controversial statements. After storm damage in Turkey in July 2017, he claimed on Twitter , "The powers [abused] #Turkey as an experimental laboratory for their sick weather manipulations in order to harm the Turkish people." The death of the in October 2017 by Journalist Sylke Tempel , who was known for her analysis of Turkey, described a fallen tree as “God's just punishment”; “The prayers of the Muslims” were answered.

Covid-19 pandemic

In 2020 he appeared alongside Ken Jebsen and Billy Six at an alleged hygiene demo against the restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany in Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ronnie Grob: Debate about journalist Martin Lejeune: Distance-less in the middle . Medienwoche, September 1, 2014, accessed on July 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Johannes Musial: [1] vice.com, November 1, 2017, accessed on August 19, 2018.
  3. ^ German journalist converts to Islam on Eid . Yeni Şafak , July 6, 2016, accessed July 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland: Archive Search (neue-deutschland.de). Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Martin Lejeune - Article overview. In: taz.de. taz, the daily newspaper. Verlagsgenossenschaft eG, accessed on July 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Martin Lejeune: Too much poverty and too many unemployed young people. In: jungewelt.de. LPG young world e. G., February 16, 2011, accessed January 10, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Press at the NSU trial: Journalist sues against the allocation of seats . Spiegel Online , April 30, 2013, accessed on July 7, 2016.
    Order of the Federal Constitutional Court of May 2, 2013 - 1 BvR 1236/13
  8. ^ Oman unveils world's 1st interactive calligraphic Quran . ( com.tr [accessed on May 13, 2018]).
  9. ↑ a b Stefan Winterbauer: The war reporter character Martin Lejeune and the problem with proximity . Meedia , September 2, 2014, accessed July 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ [Update] "There is no safe place": As a journalist in Gaza . In: VOCER . August 11, 2014 ( vocer.org [accessed May 13, 2018]).
  11. ↑ War reporter Martin Lejeune in Gaza: "We are fighting for our survival" - Current reports - News - newsroom.de. Retrieved on May 13, 2018 (German).
  12. ↑ a b Middle East conflict - How I fell for a Hamas understanding . In: Cicero Online . ( cicero.de [accessed on May 13, 2018]).
  13. ↑ https://de.scribd.com/doc/237867917/Kollaborateure-Gefahrden-Das-Leben-Vieler-Unschuldiger-Menschen-alt-txt-Kollaborateure-Gefahrden-Das-Leben-Vieler-Unschuldiger-Menschen-neu
  14. ↑ Petra Sorge: How I fell for a Hamas understanding. In: Cicero . August 28, 2014, accessed October 8, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Ex-reporter out and about with Salafists On the way lost by Ulrike Märkel, TAZ May 26, 2016
  16. ^ Peter Mühlbauer: Arrests because of major fires in Israel and the West Bank. Telepolis, November 27, 2016, accessed November 30, 2016 .
  17. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten: Lejeune apologizes for Holocaust testimony . In: Westfälische Nachrichten . ( wn.de [accessed on December 3, 2016]).
  18. ↑ Turkish newspaper Sabah: Caliphate fan Martin Lejeune fired | Ruhr barons . In: Ruhrbarone . April 20, 2018 ( ruhrbarone.de [accessed May 13, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Evaluation of the Qudstag March 2016 on berliner-register.de.
  20. ↑ Julia Haak: Al-Quds-Demo Hundreds of counter-demonstrators protest against hatred of Israel . Berliner Zeitung , July 2, 2016, accessed on July 22, 2016.
    Jörn Hasselmann, Melanie Böff: March of the Israeli opponents in Berlin: Fewer Al-Quds demonstrations on the street than expected. Der Tagesspiegel , July 3, 2016, accessed on July 26, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Rüdiger Finke: Israel critic plans demo at the memorial - police are examining application. In: Berliner Morgenpost . June 21, 2016, accessed July 6, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Stefan Laurin and Tim Röhn: Erdogan demo in Cologne: Where the Turks are considered the saviors of democracy . Die Welt from July 31, 2016
  23. ↑ Elections to the House of Representatives 2016 - Neukölln 3 - first votes. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Weather man Jörg Kachelmann exposes a confused Erdogan fan with just one tweet , Focus from July 29, 2017,
  25. ^ Criminal charges against Lejeune for tweet , Deutsche Welle , October 6, 2017.
  26. ↑ Silvia Stöber: Hygiene demos: Fair of crude ideas . tagesschau.de , May 1, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Lejeune, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover