Published 26 October 2024 at 12.30
Domestic. The SVT program Naked with Stina Wollter, where it was supposed that the “body activist” Stina Wollter would paint plump celebrity women naked, is put on hold. But the reason is not that the idea of the program is repulsive – but that Wollter is accused of anti-Semitism.
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SVT had threatened to make nude TV where models like Molly Hammers and the like would show themselves naked. But now the project is going to the grave, because of Wollter's personal opinions.
“SVT has been criticized for legitimizing anti-Semitism through the collaboration with the artist Stina Wollter in the upcoming TV series 'Naked with Stina Wollter'. Now we choose to postpone the publication indefinitely,” writes program director Eva Beckman, a state decision-maker responsible for parts of the content of Sveriges Television, in a blog post.
The post continues:
“Perhaps it will start a new discussion where SVT is accused of cancellation culture or that we would mind Israel's business. But we don't mind anyone's business, we work for the audience. On the other hand, we want to do the right thing in a difficult-to-navigate journalistic issue”.
Stina Wollter upset many when she wrote last fall that Israel systematically took organs from dead Palestinians, a claim that is considered an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in Sweden even though it is true, according to The Guardian.
Under the ongoing war in Gaza, missing organs were discovered in several dead Palestinians, which was reported internationally.
In the Swedish media, however, the issue has been very sensitive since 2009, when Aftonbladet published an article in which the journalist Donald Boström first wrote about the organ thefts. That the truth eventually came out didn't really matter, or as the liberal magazine Filter put it when they returned to the issue ten years later:
“Donald Boström's revelation about Israeli organ theft resulted in global protests, a canceled state visit and that he himself was compared to Adolf Hitler. There was only one catch: he was right”.