Talk:Red Army Faction/Archive 3

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Stammheim "Death Night"

The "Death Night" section has several major issues. It pushes forward the conspiracy theory that the RAF members were murdered in jail by German authorities. This view is not supported by the mainstream historiography. It is a conspiracy theory which has been pushed by extreme left and communist circles (RAF supporters) as well as the communist bloc countries during the 70s/80s. Consequently the sources used in this passage did not adhere to WP standards. Unverified newspaper articles from the 70s as primary sources as well as selfpublished books from "radical" anarchist "publishers" do not adhere to WP:RS. I therefore removed these sources. The section is still there, but it needs a complete deletion and rewrite from scratch. Authors may should look into German WP for material. Dead Mary (talk) 11:04, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Yeah...how do we integrate de:Todesnacht von Stammheim into this? To what depth? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 05:55, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

I rewrote the entire section and added some good sources. It's not perfect, but all the unsourced conspiracy stuff is now out. Dead Mary (talk) 05:14, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Way better. I cleaned it a little. What does "significant media echo" mean? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 05:53, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Alleged antisemitism

This reference does not support a claimed ideology of anti-semitism for the Red Army Faction. It is primarily talking about Mahler's beliefs after his RAF association. Also the addition in the infobox is a violation of MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE, since the infobox summarises key facts from the article. FDW777 (talk) 15:22, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

User: Alssa1 has been trying to make anti-semitism connections to many german new-left groups from the time. I suspect it is agenda driven and others on WP irc seem to agree. SP00KYtalk 21:31, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

@W1tchkr4ft 00: are you familiar with WP:AGF? Would you also explain what relevance the WP:IRC has to this? In regards to the reason for my additions were based on Red Army Faction's (among others) association with Tupamaros West-Berlin, which did commit a number of anti-semitic attacks starting with the bombing of the West Berlin Jewish Community Centre on November 9, 1969 (the anniversary of Kristallnacht). The source claims that RAF "shared his (Mahler's) view of Jews as “the devil.”", in response he said "Yes, sure...." I don't think it's legitimate for you to pretend it doesn't claim that the gang was anti-semitic. Alssa1 (talk) 22:10, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

And this is my point. It is all guilt by association. A joke and I think everyone else sees it. SP00KYtalk 19:25, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't see how the Red Army Faction being associated with Tupamaros West-Berlin makes the Red Army Faction's ideology "Anti-semitism". FDW777 (talk) 08:12, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

If an organisation had anti-semitic views (as claimed in the reliable source), and had associations with other anti-semitic organisations (like Tupamaros West-Berlin), I struggle to see the logic in claiming that said organisation doesn't have an ideological link to anti-semitism. Perhaps you'll explain your position a bit? Alssa1 (talk) 12:05, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

It is an original research issue. It is okay if you feel the link is obvious, and I encourage you to find sources that confirm this view. However, we cannot make such a link unless RS do so explicitly. This New Yorker source does not. Freelance-frank (talk) 15:02, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

It really isn't original research by any stretch of the imagination; a source does not need to explicitly use the phrase "anti-semitic" or "antisemitism" for those terms to be used in Wikipedia. If an action or belief is objectively anti-semitic; aka associating with an organisation that attempted to murder Jews, and also held beliefs that can be categorised as anti-semitic, I struggle to see how you come to the conclusion that it's original research to say that they are anti-semitic. But given your wish for more sources:

• 1.) There's 'Heil Comrade' an article in Prospect Magazine by Hans Kundnani (a researcher at Chatham House) that has the subtitle: "Baader-Meinhof is flashy and violent, but the glamour hides Germany's odd history of leftist anti-semitism" Among other things, it also states "What the movie omits, however, is the bizarre communiqué Meinhof—the designated “voice” of the RAF—wrote from jail celebrating the killing of the Israeli athletes as a model for the West German left. Meinhof’s weird logic illustrates the arc of anti-semitism on the German New Left that began well before the RAF, with the bombing of a Jewish Community Centre in West Berlin on November 9th 1969".
• 2.) In An Age of Murder: Ideology and Terror in Germany by historian Jeffrey Herf at UMD, writes: "The placement of a bomb by the West Berlin Tupamaros in the Jewish Community Center in West Berlin in 1969 and the 1992 attempt by the RAF to blow up a bus in Budapest filled with Russian Jewish émigrés on their way to the Budapest airport and from there to Israel are two antisemitic acts that serve as starting and end points to the age of murder." (page 11).

I have a few more sources, but given there are two that explicitly state that RAF was anti-semtitic, I'd be interested to learn what basis you oppose the inclusion of the term "anti-semitism" on the page. Alssa1 (talk) 17:18, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

That's fine. I am not opposed generally to inclusion of the term. I support following typical sourcing and categorization requirements. Feel free to add material from those sources regarding RAF and antisemitism. After verifiable material is included on the page and other requirements are satisfied, you can then add the Left-wing antisemitism category (by WP:CATV). Freelance-frank (talk) 17:44, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

WP:CATDEF may also be relevant. Freelance-frank (talk) 17:47, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

" as well as most Western media and literature"

Do any of the references provided actually reference this phrase, or has someone found a few references and synthesised them to come up with the claim? FDW777 (talk) 18:42, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

@User:FDW777 see the section below "#Mention of terrorist organisation in the lead" -- PBS (talk) 15:48, 13 September 2021 (UTC)