Martin Lejeune (born 27 July 1980 in Hanover) is a German journalist. Lejeune spent his childhood and youth in Nuremberg and Bielefeld. 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 of the Free University of Berlin.Debatte um Journalist Martin Lejeune - Distanzlos mittendrin medienwoche.ch, 1. September 2014
He has attracted controversy due to his criticisms of Israel,taz: Israel-Kritik in Berlin, Demo ohne Denkverbote his involvement in the Die Welt: Linke wollen Urheber des Klo-Skandals rauswerfen and the controversy surrounding journalist accreditation at the NSU trialSpiegel Online: Presse beim NSU-Prozess: Journalist klagt gegen PlatzvergabeFocus: Freier Journalist klagt gegen Platzentzug im NSU-ProzessSüddeutsche Zeitung: Journalist klagt gegen neues Akkreditierungsverfahren and for his reporting on the Syrian Civil War.Focus: Deutscher Kriegsreporter wünscht sich schusssichere Weste He covered the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict remotely.Die Kriegsreporter-Figur Martin Lejeune und das Problem mit der Nähe, Meedia, 2. September 2014
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