Cologne: WDR finally decides against cooperation with journalist Nemi El-Hassan
The WDR has decided against working with the journalist Nemi El-Hassan (28), as the broadcaster announced on Tuesday in Cologne.
Cologne – The West German Broadcasting Corporation (WDR) has finally opposed a collaboration with the journalist Nemi El-Hassan (28) decided.
The public broadcaster in Cologne announced this to the German press agency on Tuesday. The journalist had previously made a guest article in the Berlin newspaper published in which she criticized the WDR over the past few weeks for dealing with her.
As a reason for its decision, the broadcaster said: “There is no longer any trust for future cooperation.”
The whole autumn around the employment of El-Hassans is related to accusations of anti-Semitism that have arisen.
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The journalist was originally supposed to moderate the science program “Quarks”. The start of the war is planned for November. In the context of El-Hassan’s new task, the Bild-Zeitung reported on her participation in an Al-Kuds demo in Berlin a few years ago.
In the past, anti-Semitic slogans were repeatedly shouted at the annual Al-Kuds demonstrations in Berlin and symbols of the pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah movement were shown.
El-Hassan had distanced himself from the demo in a statement after the media report.
The WDR had decided against a presentation of El-Hassan in the science program. The reason given by the broadcaster was “that the dispute over her person has led to an inappropriate politicization of the renowned science program”. The ARD-Anstalt had then initially further checked whether it could possibly work as an author for “Quarks”.
On Tuesday, El-Hassan accused the WDR in the guest article in the Berliner Zeitung in the course of the debate initiated by the Bild report that he wanted to pull himself out of the line of fire.
“The reaction of the WDR exemplarily shows that things are going badly with the widely vaunted culture of debate in this country”, criticized El-Hassan.