WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – Staff at the recently purchased American news agency, Politico, has been warned that they must abide by the parent company’s commitment to the Zionist regime or else find a new job, though they are not expected to sign a formal pledge in writing, as their German counterparts.
The message was communicated to the 500 staff of Politico, by Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of the Berlin-based company, Axel Springer, which said in August that it was buying the American news agency for more than $1 billion.
Döpfner, who has previously said that support for the Zionist regime is “a German duty,” is reported in the Haaretz telling staff at Politico that Axel Springer’s commitment to the regime is like “a constitution” and if they did not like it, they should not work for the firm.
Politico staffers in the U.S., however, will not be required to sign a written commitment to these principles, as employees in Germany must, Döpfner said.
Staff are also expected to shun what Döpfner called activist journalism, which he said was helping polarize the United States and other countries.
In Germany, Axel Springer owns titles including tabloid, Bild, and the center-right broadsheet, Die Welt. It has recently expanded greatly in the U.S., buying Business Insider for about $500 million and the business-based Morning Brew.
Axel Springer’s commitment to the occupying regime goes back to its eponymous founder, Axel Caesar Springer, who died in 1985 in what was then West Berlin. Known as the German Rupert Murdoch, Springer is said to have been resolutely pro-Zionist.
Following the Zionist regime’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, Springer, who reportedly made a hasty visit to the occupied territories while ordering his newspapers to cover the invasion obsessively, officially committed itself to upholding support for the Zionist regime’s ‘existence’.