German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle has made it compulsory for all employees to support Israel. But one Palestinian journalist who was fired after false anti-Semitism smears just won a lawsuit and got her job back.

Monday was a “date for celebrations,” Farah Maraqa wrote.

The Palestinian-Jordanian journalist had just won her lawsuit against Deutsche Welle.

The German state broadcaster was ordered by the Berlin labor court to reinstate her and pay all her legal costs.

The decisive victory “suggests that the court recognized that Farah’s termination, based on a controversial investigation and unfounded allegations of anti-Semitism related to reports published before her employment contract, was illegal,” said the European Legal Support Center.

ELSC assisted Maraqa in her fight for justice and is working with other journalists in the same situation.

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