Hate and antisemitism online: For quite some time now, WerteInitiative – .Jüdisch-deutsche Positionen has been taking action against the website “Judas Watch”. In its own eyes the site lists “traitors to the white race”. Jewish persons are marked with a yellow star.This is quite clearly incitement to hatred and antisemitic. Neither a criminal complaint nor our intervention with ministries and authorities has led to the site being blocked, because the operators of the site could not be traced.
In the programme “Kontrovers” on Bayerischer Rundfunk, an alternative way was presented in which the site could be “blockable”: the protection of minors. According to this, “Judas Watch” constitutes an inadmissible offering under Section 4 JMStV. For this reason we have reported the site to the “Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz” (KJM).
In order to act with emphasis, we ask you to report the homepage to the KJM as well. We have created a template for this. The more people protest against the availability of the homepage, the more likely it is that the KJM will take action. Please then send the e-mail to: kjm@die-medienanstalten.de .
Gladly cc: kontakt@werteinitiative.deDownload of the template for a covering letter: hereKommission für Jugendmedienschutz (KJM)
die medienanstalten – ALM GbR
Gemeinsame Geschäftsstelle
Friedrichstraße 60
10117 Berlin
Incitement to hatred and website harmful to minors “Judas Watch”
Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to draw your attention to the website “Judas Watch” and to ask you to protect our young people from the contents of this website and to block the website for access from Germany.
Under Section 4 JMStV the website “Judas Watch” is an inadmissible offering, since its content is quite clearly directed against the free democratic basic order and incites hatred against sections of the population and against a religious group. The human dignity of the persons affected is thereby attacked.
The website “Judas Watch”, which is very easy for anyone to find and access via Google, contributes massively with its content inciting hatred to a possible radicalisation of young people (and adults): according to its own self-description, the purpose of the website is to name “anti-White traitors, agitators and subversives” and to maintain a kind of public database on them. This site is moreover explicitly antisemitic, since it seeks to point out “Jewish influence” (see the subtitle of the website: “highlighting Jewish influence”). To this end it names, arranged by country, among others German Jews by name and marks them with a yellow star in front of their name. The website lists activities as well as supposed or actual relationships between the individual persons and organisations and thus seeks to show how much influence Jews supposedly have in Germany and worldwide behind the scenes. Being named on the homepage in some cases constitutes an enormous psychological burden for the individuals concerned, including their families. Some of the persons named are student representatives.
With currently 384 personal entries on “Judas Watch”, Germany has the most entries with the exception of the USA.
Particularly against the background of the terrorist attack in Halle, but also after the Lübcke murder in Kassel, the site constitutes a direct threat to the persons named, with incalculable consequences for them, but above all for the specially marked Jews. The manifesto of the Halle attacker was based exactly on the image of “white supremacy”, which is to take action against such so-called “traitors”. In the assessment of the Verfassungsschutz, the internet serves as an intensifier and accelerator of radicalisation, especially also for young people: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/rechtsextremismus-gefaehrder-101.html
This applies not only to social networks, gaming platforms and messenger services, but equally to websites such as “Judas Watch”.
The site is hosted by Cloudflare Inc., since 28.03.2014 with its registered office at 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA. with the following IP address: 104.18.55.41
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) has likewise reported several times on the homepage.
At the following link you will find a feature by the political magazine “Kontrovers”: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/was-tun-gegen-antisemitismus-und-rassismus-auf-illegalen-seiten,RfeQt61
In addition, a detailed podcast on the subject is available. In the podcast people affected also have their say:
https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/der-funkstreifzug/todeslisten-im-netz-warum-rechtsextreme-online-pranger-nicht-geloescht-werden/1766960
I look forward to your prompt reply and your positive decision.
Yours sincerely
