Since 2016, various left-wing and Palestine-solidarity parties, organizations, and publishing houses have lost their bank accounts, including – on multiple occasions – the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace. Individuals, too, have repeatedly been affected in recent years.
One particularly extreme case is that of Hüseyin Doğru. He was the founder of Red Media, a small but influential left-wing outlet published primarily in English, run from Germany, and known for regularly reporting on Germany’s domestic anti-Palestinian repression. Germany placed Red Media and Doğru on the EU sanctions list. Since then, according to German repression authorities, Doğru is no longer allowed to work or receive benefits. Anyone – including his own wife – who provides the father of several children with money or material support is liable to prosecution.
This is the official explanation of the sanctions against Hüseyin Doğru:
Hüseyin Doğru is the founder and representative of AFA Medya A.Ş. which isa media company based in Istanbul. AFA Medya A.Ş. operates “RED”, which comprises a number of media platforms, and which has close financial and organisational connections with Russian state propaganda entities and actors, and shares deep structural ties, including interlinkages between, and rotation of, individual personnel with Russian state media organisations.
RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience, including by disseminating the narratives of radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas.
During a violent occupation of a German university by anti-Israel rioters, RED personnel coordinated with the occupiers to disseminate images of their vandalism – which included the use of Hamas symbols – through their online channels, thus providing them with an exclusive media platform, facilitating the violent nature of the protest.
Through AFA Medya, Hüseyin Doğru thus supports actions by the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability and security in the Union and in one or several of its Member States, including by indirectly supporting and facilitating violent demonstrations and engaging in coordinated information manipulation.
Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ%3AL_202500966
I have not researched this individual and therefore I’m not taking a standpoint on the correctness of this information, but I felt like this information was missing from the news article.
Some additional sources:
Why do you think the European propaganda is “important information missing”?
RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience, including by disseminating the narratives of radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas.
During a violent occupation of a German university by anti-Israel rioters, RED personnel coordinated with the occupiers to disseminate images of their vandalism – which included the use of Hamas symbols – through their online channels, thus providing them with an exclusive media platform, facilitating the violent nature of the protest.
Looks like the article very accurately describes what is going on without all the EU pro-genocide propaganda.
Do you have a source for that, which is not itself a russian propaganda outlet?
Yeah this one
Anyone able to fill me in on what the sort of “steelman” argument would be for such a punishment?
I’m having a hard time understanding the expected outcome - I guess just hoping he leaves the country, without actually kicking him out? Why not just kick him out?
“No one may help you meet your material needs in any way, by law” is such a weird punishment. Very heavy handed, cruel if that person has nowhere else to go, but also like, grossly indirect. “We won’t punish you directly, we’ll just punish anyone else who ever tries to help you at all”. Yuck!
Anyone able to fill me in on what the sort of “steelman” argument would be for such a punishment?
I’m having a hard time understanding the expected outcome - I guess just hoping he leaves the country, without actually kicking him out? Why not just kick him out?
These are two entirely different cases. One is a private company not wishing to deal with a private group due to fundraising for Cuba. While that’s a legal thing to do, it’s also perfectly legal for a bank not to want you as a customer. If the DKP thinks they’re being discriminated against, they should sue the bank. The government is totally not involved here.
The second example is a dude who is literally a paid Russian propagandist. Putting them on the sanctions list is much more effective, since they’re not actually in Germany most of the time, but base a lot of their work out of Turkey. Kicking them out would do nothing.
Dogru (…) was previously a key part of Red Fish, a platform financed by Ruptly, a Germany-based outlet partially funded by the Russian state-controlled network, RT. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Dogru closed Red Fish and started his own independent outlet (red. media)
Quite a few Russian propagandists are using the antifa label and Palestine support to get away with their propaganda work. In the case of Dogru is not even well hidden, he went straight from openly paid Russian propagandist to barely-covered propagandist without even bothering to change the name much, or the media channels at all.
I definitely need to read closer, thanks.
That is exactly what the they are trying to do. The authoritarian EU is trying to intimidate all journalists who speak out against the genocide they are complicit in. Their previous attempts of intimidating journalists and protesters by raiding and arresting them illegally have not been working so they are turning up the heat. Everything to protect Israel.
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Christ, 1933, here we go again.
