Bram Moszkowicz believes that Johan Derksen should not be given a role in the Christmas promo of SBS 6 this year. “You have to ask yourself whether you want a latent anti-Semite in a Christmas film.”
Every year around the holidays, TV channels make a short film in which all their stars parade: the so-called Christmas promo. The men of Today Inside have complained that they had such a small role in last year’s film, while the recordings took a very long time. This year they are therefore demanding a greater role.
‘Johan is an anti-Semite’
Bram Moszkowicz can’t laugh at that playful request. “You can of course wonder whether you want Derksen in a Christmas special. You have to wonder whether you want a latent anti-Semite in a Christmas special, but that is my opinion,” the former criminal lawyer responds at the desk of Show news.
Private boss Evert Santegoeds cuts him off: “Oh, yes, well, then they also have something to think about.”
Bram: “I think that’s worth it.”
Tense hands
Curiously enough, Evert does not sense that there is controversial television in this and he just continues chatting. Presenter Dyantha Brooks then: “Bram, I know you a little now. I can see the tension in your hands and everything and that you are angry about it.”
Bram then continues: “Well, I don’t want to spoil the atmosphere here, but yes… You laugh about it (to Evert, ed.), but what that man said was also about me. I have Jewish blood and that has particularly affected me and with me, I think that is even more important, a lot of other people of the same origin.”
Out of his throat
This is of course about Johan’s controversial statement that ‘the Jews kind of asked for it’, referring to the recent terrorist attack in Israel.
Evert: “Is this the first time you’ve said something about it?”
Bram: “Yes, I didn’t want to do that because you also spoil the atmosphere of such a nice program like this, but it just happens now, and he has no idea how that has affected people of Jewish descent in the Netherlands. I also believe that Palestinians should be treated fairly and that they also have the right to a state, but it was far too soon after October 7 that he got that out of his throat.”
Auschwitz
Dyantha: “How does that affect you?”
Bram: “You carry that with you, what that man says. Let me put it this way: when he says something about football, he knows more about it than I do, so it’s all at your service, but he doesn’t know anything about this at all. He has no idea what he messed up.”
He continues: “I speak for myself, but for other people and older people who experienced the war and who were victims of the Holocaust. My father was a deceased of Auschwitz. He has no idea what he’s doing.”
Apologies
Bram wants Johan to die after two weeks. “It would be to his credit if he would apologise. Not the half-hearted thing he always does: we shout something and withdraw his droppings the next broadcast. He should just apologize. He doesn’t do that, because that man thinks the fuss is wonderful.”
He concludes: “That’s why I thought: should I say something about it? Because tomorrow he will dedicate half the broadcast to it again, but that doesn’t interest me one bit.”