The newspaper received a large amount of criticism among the Left in Germany due to its opaque stance on the upcoming Iraq War in 2002 and its criticism of then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s use of anti-war politics in his re-election campaign of the same year.[7] A strong point of contention among the German Left is its pro-Israel position.[8] A founder and co-editor of the Jungle World refers to the paper as "explicitly anti-anti-Zionist, anti-anti-Semitic, and anti-anti-American."[9] Anti-imperialists are often accused to be nationalistic by the newspaper.[10]