Martin Lejeune (born 27 July 1980 in

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

) is a German activist. Lejeune spent his childhood and youth in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

and

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the ...

. He passed the Abitur through a Second Chance School (CEE). Starting in 2004, he read for a degree in political science from

Otto-Suhr-Institut The Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft (''Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science'', also ''OSI'') is a prestigious research institute of the Free University of Berlin. It is the leading political science institution in Germany and one ...

of the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

.''Debatte um Journalist Martin Lejeune - Distanzlos mittendrin''
medienwoche.ch, 1. September 2014 He is known for his criticism of Israel, his involvement in the and the controversy surrounding journalist accreditation at the

NSU trial The NSU trial or National Socialist Underground trial was a trial in Germany against several people in connection with the National Socialist Underground (NSU) – an Far-right politics, extreme-right terrorist organization – and the Nationa ...

and for his reporting on the Syrian Civil War. He covered the

2014 Israel–Gaza conflict The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge ( he, מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, translit=Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, ), was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territories, Pale ...

remotely. He referred to the unlawful executions of 18 Palestinians in Gaza as to have "taken place very socially".''Wie ich auf einen Hamas-Versteher hereinfiel''

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

, 28. August 2014

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1980 births German war correspondents Living people German male journalists People from Hanover Free University of Berlin alumni Mass media people from Lower Saxony {{Germany-journalist-stub