Re: Possible Hosts for 2013
I believe Gina is describing her frustration over the injustices happening in Palestine and you should take in the
bigger meaning rather than her exact words. She probably has family and family history in Palestine with escalating stories of sorrow, death and discrimination. She is describing bitterness among her kind and her blog isn't meant to be read by political middle aged men or as a professional political source. The attack on her was made by a pro Israeli lobby group and was further handled by various extreme right nationalistic forums. If you attack her on political terms you immediately associate yourself with these groups.
It's unfortunate that Israel once again associates with intolerance, hearsay stories and the highly questionable political agenda connected with these kinds of opportunistic groups. Its former massive support among social liberals in Sweden is rapidly vanishing to nothing.
The fact that you are driving this discussion about Gina Dirawi's political opinions and making people aware about her Palestinian ethnicity, is
discrimination of her human rights. You are forcing people to have a political judgement about her.
To us she is a TV personality and a comedian, nothing more or less.
No, I'm as a Swedish tax payer have every right to object whoever host we are about to put on Eurovision (and being the face of Sweden to all Europe for those three evenings in May). SVT is public domain and not just a playground for some anti-Israelis. It is funded by the Swedish public as a whole, and while you might think she's an ok representative of Sweden, I don't think so and we should have hosts that atleast not openly spread hatred towards some nation that we are about to invite as guests.
We talk about hosts in this thread and I raise my objection and explain why I don't want her as a hostess and being the face of Sweden. I think I've been very explicit on why and I don't feel like I'm being off-topic or anything. So while you're seem to think her hate-speech is irrelevant in this case (even if you regard it as being a totally legitimate comment), I don't think so and I think I explained very clearly why (of course, you have every right to disagree).
If her human right is to compare Israel with Nazi-Germany (which no decent human-being with a single historical knowledge would do in the first place), then it's my VERY SAME RIGHT to object against what she said and my very same right as part funder of our public TV and our hosting of Eurovision, to object a host for
whatever reason!
I'm very sad that you are promoting her anti-Israeli agenda on here by not objecting or even questioning what she said and if whether or not that's ok with a hostess like that welcoming guests from all over Europe (including Israel), well it is your right to disagree and state your opinion, but it's my very same right to do it aswell (without those allegations you're on about), so I don't see your problem tbh? Did I personally attack you? Are you her or what? :?
So it's a human right to attack Israel verbally with nasty comments, but not a right for me to question her as a hostess and face for Sweden? Well, sorry but if you care so much about people having their rights, then I have the very same right to state my opinion.
For your info, I didn't "make people aware about her Palestinian ethnicity" as it was YOU who mentioned it in the first place (like that would somehow legitimize her comparison with Israel and Nazi-Germany?), to me that's even
irrelevant and can't be used as an excuse for comments like that imo.
And your whole nagging about "pro-Israeli lobby" and "Right-wing nationalist groups" are just guilty by association and character assassination game which I won't play, and it won't change anything really, no matter what labels you try to put on opponents, because
she said what she said, and I guess you just hate the fact that some people are using
their rights (as she used hers to write those comment right?) calling her out for what she sais, and since you apparently agree with her, you start your bashing of those groups by calling them this or that... well that might fly with some, I just find it sad. I guess human rights of expressions are just allowed for people which hold some opinions right? And that some opinions should stay unquestioned and not be challenged? Well, you and I have very different view on freedom of expression it seems.
She made those comments and like every adult (which she was when she made those) and being a public person and all, she has to take responsibility for those (well we all have to take responsibility for what we do and say), and contrary to what you're trying to insinuate, it's actually you who want to make ethnicity important here as you want to give her a free-pass based on that alone, so don't try to make it look like that was my focus. I would just as strongly oppose an ethnic Swede making the same comments being a face for Sweden in a show like his, and I'm not giving free-passes to anyone based on whatever ethnic group they belong to.
