Mathias Dopfner, CEO of Axel Springer, speaking a the the World Jewish Congress in Geneva on 11 May 2026 (World Jewish Congress)
Elis Gjevori – Middle East Eye May 13, 2026
Mathias Dopfner, the CEO of Axel Springer and owner of The Telegraph and Politico, told the World Jewish Congress (WJC) that “anti-Zionism is racism” during a speech in Geneva.
Addressing the organisation’s governing board on Monday, Dopfner delivered a wide-ranging speech laden with anti-immigrant rhetoric, calls for censorship and attacks on musicians, artists, universities and the UN.
The media executive made headlines in April after telling journalists at Politico that they must back Israel or resign, fuelling concerns that the newsroom’s independence is under threat. Axel Springer acquired the political news site in 2021.
He has also been explicit about his ideological position, telling the audience: “I’m a goy, and I’m Zionist, with all my heart, out of conviction, and with passion.”
In the same speech, Dopfner lashed out at the UN Human Rights Council, which he accused of unfairly maligning Israel by highlighting war crimes, human rights abuses and apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories, deriding it as the “human rights Twistings Council”.
Anti-Zionism is now “spreading rapidly across the United States, throughout Europe, in universities, in the arts and culture scene, on social media and on the streets of our cities, in words and in deeds,” added Dopfner, pointing to what he portrayed as a growing willingness to criticise Israel.
Criticism of Israel is not “forbidden”, he conceded, but argued it should not be given “everyday”.
‘Today, Zionism is a dirty word to many’
Dopfner went further, alleging that criticism of Israel had made countries such as “Germany, France or England and Spain among others” no “longer truly safe countries for Jews”.
“Today, Zionism is a dirty word to many,” he said.
Turning to the United Kingdom, he attacked the Green Party, which has gained traction in part through its criticism of Israel.
“In England, members of the Green Party, which most disturbingly mixes climate activism with antisemitism, say Zionism is racism.
“There must be a misunderstanding here. It is not Zionism that is racism. It is anti-Zionism that it racism,” he said.
The media executive argued that the rise of anti-Zionism is driven by “envy” at Jewish success, while making no reference to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land or to proposals by Israeli politicians for a “greater Israel” stretching from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq.
“Only a self-assured, proud Jewish identity can help reduce envy and [the] new antisemitism,” Dopfner went on to add.
Framing growing criticism of Israel as a warning sign of “authoritarianism”, Dopfner proposed a series of draconian measures.
Anti-Zionists, who the pro-Israel media figure conflates with antisemites, “regardless of their origin, must be expelled wherever legally possible”.
Dopfner also praised UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, saying she had advanced similar proposals that “every democratic country” should support.
“Europe should introduce preferential immigration and citizenship for Jewish families,” Dopfner prescribed, presenting it as a counterweight to what he described as “Christian and particularly Muslim influences” in Europe.
“Europe must become more Jewish,” he concluded.
The Telegraph owner also called for the censorship of TikTok in Europe.
“In America, TikTok has been forced to be sold to non-Chinese owners,” he said, referring to the forced sale of the company by the Trump administration earlier this year to the pro-Zionist billionaire Larry Ellison, a close ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Europe should follow this example,” said Dopfner, warning that if it does not defeat anti-Zionism, the West “will destroy itself”.
Dopfner’s increasingly public interventions reflect a broader effort to counter mounting international condemnation and isolation of Israel following its genocide in Gaza and its role in pushing the United States into a war with Iran, which has triggered widening global economic fallout affecting billions.
Similar concerns over declining support for Israel were also voiced at Tikvah’s 2025 Jewish Leadership Conference in the United States, where billionaires, investment bankers, media figures, lawyers and Zionist Christians gathered to address what they see as a growing backlash.
The event, which brought together the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish Leadership Conference and the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly, called for greater censorship of voices across the political spectrum amid rising criticism of Israel – or, as participants framed it, “saving America from the barbarians”.
A tacit admission Jews are fleeing the wholly stolen land?
Do you remember a time when they weren’t claiming the right to invade your country, rape your children and impoverish you? Now they’re saying “I’m a better invader than that guy”.
This Mathias Dopfner character has missed his calling as a low-grade clown. Who, other than a low-grade clown like Dopfner, could come up with ‘anti-Zionism is racism’?
Zionists are all sorts of things, Dofner. But they are not a race.
Typical jew-ology.
Pogroms a comin joo boy!
They want preferential treatment everywhere they go. They have no intention to abandon Israel, although tor the time being and until the USrael and UKreal conquers Iran, they are allowing thousands to leave Israel for their “safety”. Their second designated homeland, with the war in the Ukraine which the USrael started under Zio Zwlensky, is a large and rich hunk of the Ukraine. Few Jews have any love for the Ukrainian people. Israel and Russia are in any case Rothschild puppets. Knowing a few simply facts about the history and support of the USSR and the deals with Stalin, and then its “transition” after 1992, and who actually now owns the place, and then looking at the relations between Israel and Russia it is not very difficult to surmise about the virtual land clearances going on in the Ukriane together with Blackrock and other so-called “Western interests” buying up rich farmlands and other valuable assets in that nation,
Isn’t apparent yet that jews and their zionist dogs are THE most racist group on earth?
So the green party is engaging in climatesemitism. Terrible just terrible!
Another evil slimy demonic 😈😈 kike. Their day is coming. Effing bastards.
Absolutely, Europe needs more parasite now then ever..
No AntiSemitism without Semitism
– Ernst Zundel
or…
No Semites = No AntiSemitism
New Immigration Law
No Foreskin
No Entry
A kosher Kraut running the Telegraph (lol) says: “I’m a goy, and I’m Zionist, with all my heart, out of conviction, and with passion.” A mindset exactly like his “Kraut” boss Axel Springer or its “cousin over the big pond” Sir Rupert Murdochsky.
Remember the ole Judaic folk tales: “I AM YOU but rape, kill or sell YOU anytime I want”.
Where have all the Krauts and Europeans gone? Hollow costed from the face of the Earth or being replaced by organic look alike matter on two legs?
What is better: a pro Semite or an Anti Semite, a pro Zionist or an anti Zionist?
Definition of racist is one that thinks his race is better than another. Nobody thinks that except jews. Jews think they are better than everyone else, they call all non jews goyim which is their n*gger word for anyone thats not a jew. Jews are the most racist vile on the planet. So look in the mirror racist.
Here’s what I think of what needs to happen to all kikes, TOD DEM JUDEN.
Jews should absolutely be afforded preferential migration, to the Kerguelen Islands In fact, it should be mandatory. All of ’em, they can have the run of the place, with communication with the outside world strictly forbidden under penalty of death.
Typical parasite-think:
Wishing to live a better life in countries they are in process of destroying.
Are there any of these tech owners who are not K-words? How did only K’s end up in these positions?
I think Greenland has enough space to put all the rotten jews there. Let the jews leave us goyim alone and let them live in the freezing cold and see how they prosper without the bankers and governments protecting them.
Please do tell us about this as if it were anything new. After all, 41 years ago Professor Revilo P. Oliver had this to say in the pamphlet, ANOTHER JEWISH PROBLEM, May 1985 by publishers Liberty Bell, p. 10:
It is not just the “Ashkies” who are involved. Of course this opinion may sound harsh, but realistically may explain why that foreigners can literally get away with murder whilst peaceful law abiding indigenous whites are considered an enemy by this 5th column. See
https://www.renegadetribune.com/british-student-henry-nowak-left-to-bleed-out-in-handcuffs-after-being-stabbed-by-sikh-attacker/