Walla published an article yesterday about a veteran Israeli TV reporter accused of repeated instances of sexual harassment of female colleagues. A former Channel 2 newscaster, Gadi Sukenik, aired the charge and said it involved a “most serious case” of serial harassment:
“Everyone knew about the whole time and said as long as it doesn’t get out they won’t do a thing about it.”
One case, he even claims, is “graver than sexual harassment.”
From this Haaretz report, we can see that there is at least one charge of rape. Another victim who began an affair with his that was consensual, broke it off when he demanded that she perform oral sex on him in a parking lot. She speaks about those who’ve hired him over the years knowing his reputation:
Without a doubt, the employers valued his name and reputation above a few weepy women [victims].
Several Israeli sources have confirmed that the reporter in question is Emmanuel Rosen, age 53, who works for Channel 10. One source, whose account hasn’t been verified, also accused Rosen of harassing subjects of his news stories and political candidates he was covering.
A women’s media organization has put out an announcement asking anyone who may be a victim to come forward so they may compile eyewitness statements that can be forwarded to Rosen’s bosses and the police. They say they already have the testimony of 40 witnesses or victims of acts of verbal, sexual or physical harassment.
This seems to have had an impact with Channel 10 management. Rosen announced a few hours ago that he was taking a leave. He also said his accusers had launched an “orchestrated campaign” against him. Among his other choice comments were an accusations that he was the victim of:
“An anonymous smear campaign of monstrous proportions.”
Perhaps he could employ publicist Max Clifford to clear his name?
That guy has a face that looks like a piece of wax fruit that someone left on the steam radiator. You can see that he’s an animal. In the photo it looks like he’s fantasizing about Dana in a leather catsuit, 3 inch stilettos and a whip. Oh, wait a minute, so am I. Wow, what a degenerate. LOL 😀
The difference is that you wouldn’t rape her given the chance, & he would.
True.
Richard, I think you should write about this. The first politician I see that stepped up and supported an immediate corrective measure to the Mizrachi omission was Bennett. Is there a Jewish pol who will support the Arab omission? How about Mahmoud Darwish?
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4373484,00.html
http://www.haaretz.com/business/new-israeli-banknotes-let-the-ashkenazi-sephardi-genie-out-the-bottle-again-1.517881
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167531#.UX3Bk7Vwp9U
Thanks for the tip. I’ll look into it.
Here’s an op-ed on it.
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4373475,00.html
What’s probably the most ironic part of all this is that Rosen is an investigative/political reporter in the public eye. You’d think he’d have enough sense to know that somebody is going to bring it to the surface, much the same way he, as an investigative reporter wants to bring to the surface other questionable and detremental actions by people in power/positions of power and break moral/ethical law… not to mention actual (if some of the claims made against him turn true). It is simply amazing that people do these types of things and think “I”M not gonna get caught”!
Two other disturbing issues here… one is that so many peers seemed to know about this and did nothing to stop his actions (I wonder if anybody even approached him and told him to “cool it”), and some of the public (not quoted in media but who I’ve talked to… personally, not professionally i.e. not news/production people) seem to think he did nothing wrong other than “run a romance campaign” with (some of) these women. That’s a laugh.
The other thing is, I do wonder how much of it was brought out against him as some type of get-even issue (NOT that he might be innocent, but slipping it to the public and not hiding it as perhaps with some other ” on-my-team” journalist). And just the opposite…
And a question for RS… IF Rosen, who is more well known and veteran TV/reporter figure than the other journalist (also CH10?) you rallied against in an accusation ( and I haven’t seen anything public about it since, by the way) -but-not-publicized/proven of rape. Why is it that Rosen’s case has broken out into the open and this other case isn’t?? You have your sources, how come nothing has come of that case if there was real “smoke” and fire?
Some people are very much better at threatening the press (and police) than others. See Jimmy Saville versus the nameless millionaire backers of “Hacked Off” the campaign against Press Freedom figure-headed by the convicted sex offender, Hugh Grant.