(Algemeiner) One of Germany’s leading broadcasters confirmed on Tuesday that it would not proceed with the employment of a journalist with a record of anti-Zionist and antisemitic comments, citing issues around trust as the reason.
In a statement, the West German Broadcasting Corporation (WDR), which is part of a consortium of public broadcasters throughout Germany, said that it would not be working with the German-Palestinian journalist Nemi El-Hassan because “there is no longer any trust for future cooperation.”
El-Hassan had been due to begin presenting a science program, “Quarks,” later this month. However, an expose of her pro-Palestinian activities by the right-wing tabloid Bild revealed that she had attended the annual “Quds (Jerusalem) Day” demonstration in Berlin in 2014.
