Jürgen Elsässer

[[File:JuergenElsaesser2008.jpg|thumb|165px|the man back in 2008, when some people still mistook him for a leftist (this photo was taken at an event of {{wpl|Neues Deutschland}})]]{{conspiracynav|1}}
'''Jürgen Elsässer''' is a former leftist and one time journalist at the left wing monthly magazine {{wpl|konkret|''konkret''}} who did not agree with the stance of ''konkret'' editor-in-chief Hermann L. Gremliza regarding the 2003 [[Iraq War]], and the [[NATO]] intervention in [[Serbia]] 1999 and subsequently went off the deep end, becoming a [[conspiracy theorist]],<ref group=note>Even {{wpl|de:Kategorie:Vertreter_einer_Verschw%C3%B6rungstheorie|German Wikipedia}} agrees on that count.</ref> an alleged [[antisemite]]<ref>https://jungle.world/artikel/2014/42/die-querachse-des-antisemitismus</ref><ref group=note>Unfortunately, a {{wpl|de:Els%C3%A4sser-Ditfurth-Prozess|German court case}} disallows you from saying so.</ref><ref>https://www.jpost.com/landedpages/printarticle.aspx?id=379057</ref> and the leader of his own [[crank]]-monthly {{wpl|de:Compact_%28Magazin%29|''COMPACT''}} as well as a (largely stillborn) movement "against the financial capital" that he claims is "[[horseshoe theory|open to both right wing and left wing people]]". He has given numerous interviews to fellow crank, antisemite, and conspiracy peddler {{wpl|Ken Jebsen}} and has expressed sympathy for [[PEGIDA]],<ref>[https://taz.de/Neue-Rechte-radikalisiert-Pegida/!5242665/ „Neue Rechte“ radikalisiert Pegida]</ref> the [[Alternative für Deutschland]], and [[Vladimir Putin]]. He is regarded as one of the leading figures of the German "new right". His approach has often been described as that of a "Querfront" — a supposed alliance of left- and right-wing extremists, that is often translated as [[third positionism]] in English, but would literally mean something like "front at a right angle to the normal direction", i.e. a "front" that &mdash; as opposed to a traditional popular front of the left — does not include only parties "adjacent" to each other on the political spectrum, but left- and right-extremists with the exclusion of the center of the spectrum. Elsässer is also a promoter of [[Federal Reserve]] conspiracy theories.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140712175507/http://www.huffingtonpost.de/2014/04/22/montagsdemo-jebsen_n_5190762.html Sebastian Christ, "Elsässer, Jebsen und Montagsdemas: Warum die neue 'Friedensbewegung' so gefährlich ist", 23 April 2014], "[[The Huffington Post]]" (Germany)</ref> He furthermore tried to play down the massacre of Srebrenica by denying the official number of victims, shifting the blame and second-guessing the term "[[genocide]]" as early as 2003.<ref>[https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/srebrenica-und-karthago This article] also makes clear where he's coming from: He thinks the NATO action against Serbia of 1999 was a mistake, [[false dilemma|so Milosevic has to be totally innocent]].</ref> He was also a major apologist of the [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad|Dinner Jacket]], notably defending the crackdown after the laughably faked 2009 election.<ref>The headline of [https://juergenelsaesser.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/gluckwunsch-ahmadinedschad/ this blog post] translates to "congratulations Ahmadinejad".</ref> Despite supposedly being against big capital, he's also into [[Global warming]] denial and attacked [[Greta Thunberg]].

==So what's he up to lately?==
Well, besides speaking at [[Pegida]] rallies and writing 
blog posts
 for his crank 
daily
 monthly magazine, he is still trying to promote his "movement" against "financial capitalism" by trying to appeal to people in the [[Alternative für Deutschland]] and those to the right of it. After having won the first round of a libel process (German libel law, while not as strict as that in Britain, allows a lot more suing for the alleged victim than the law in the US), he went as far as posting "Court decides: Elsässer not an antisemite" on his blog. However, his opponent has announced to go in the second round.

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