In 1997, a schism between these two camps led to the eventual foundation of the weekly Jungle World, which since strongly denounced anti-Zionist views upheld by their former colleagues.

[12] The newspaper has been criticised by six of its own authors[12] and others[7] for not being sufficiently critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran in relation to their nuclear "ambitions".

The cooperative Linke Presse Verlags-Förderungs und -Beteiligungsgenossenschaft (LPG) junge Welt e.G. began preparing to take over the majority of the publishing house in 1997.

According to the Annual Report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, "the national daily newspaper Junge Welt is the most important printed medium in the left-wing extremist scene" in Germany.

[16] Junge Welt unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit against being named in the report on the protection of the constitution and lost in court in March 2022.