Kenneth Sikorski (born 1959 or 1960),[1] writing as KGS,[2] is an American-born Finnish blogger. Sikorski has been noted as the editor of the news blog Tundra Tabloids, which has been affiliated with the pro-Israeli counter-jihad movement.[2][3]
Kenneth Sikorski | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 or 1960 (age 64–65) United States |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Occupation | Blogger |
| Known for | Tundra Tabloids blog |
Activities
editSikorski was born in the United States, where he lived until moving to Finland in 1987.[4] A retired paper industry machinist,[1] he formerly ran the blogs Bad News from Finland and Bad News from Sweden until 2008[2] as part of an international network of "bad news" bloggers,[1] before he founded Tundra Tabloids, a pro-Israel[5][6] counter-jihad blog.[2][3] The website states to be "keeping tabs on the most outrageous happenings in the Middle East, Islamist extremism and Islamist hegemony in Scandinavia and on the political correctness that allows them to flourish".[7] It has been described by The Jerusalem Post as a "media watchdog site",[8] and a "blog that monitors anti-Israeli sentiments in the Finnish media and blogosphere".[9]
Sikorski is based in Helsinki, and has been noted as a writer on radical Islam and antisemitism in Finland.[10] According to scholar of antisemitism, Manfred Gerstenfeld, writing for Israel National News, without Sikorski's blog "hardly anything regarding Finnish anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism would be known abroad".[4] Sikorski has close contacts with the blog Gates of Vienna and its editor Edward S. May, for which he has translated texts from Finnish to English, and has participated in several of the international counter-jihad conferences.[2] He has also written for the Gatestone Institute.[10]
In 2010, Sikorski exposed a blog post by the head of Finland's Amnesty International branch, Frank Johansson, which termed Israel a "scum state".[9][11] The post was removed following the exposure,[8] but Johansson retained his job at the organisation.[12] In 2012, Tundra Tabloids translated a television interview with Pertti Salolainen, Finland's vice chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, in which Salonainen stated that American Jews "hold vast control over the wealth and media in the United States".[12] In 2013, Sikorski gained media attention for translating a Dutch television interview with Turkish Muslim youth who praised Hitler for killing Jews.[13]
References
edit- ^ a b c Liphshiz, Cnaan (1 February 2008). "Bad News Bloggers Bid to Beat Press Bias". Haaretz.
Appearing patriotic seems to be of little concern to Kenneth Sikorski, a Finnish non-Jew who runs both Bad News from Finland and Bad News from Sweden. "Even harsh criticism does not generally register as unpatriotic in Scandinavia," says the 48-year-old retired paper industry machinist. Sikorski, who was born in the U.S. and immigrated to Finland 20 years ago, has been monitoring the media for years.
- ^ a b c d e Hannus, Martha (2012). Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön (in Swedish). Expo Research. pp. 28, 92. Archived from the original on 1 November 2022.
- ^ a b Pertwee, Ed (October 2017). 'Green Crescent, Crimson Cross': The Transatlantic 'Counterjihad' and the New Political Theology (PDF). London School of Economics. p. 268.
- ^ a b Gerstenfeld, Manfred (3 July 2013). "Finland Has Its Own Anti-Semitism". Israel National News.
- ^ "Legal action over Finnish stores' 'Zionists' puppet' article". The Times of Israel. 19 January 2013.
- ^ Marcus, Lori Lowenthal (10 September 2014). "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Bashes Israel at Government-Funded 'Peace Forum' in Finland". Jewish Press.
- ^ Dervin, Fred (2016). "How to Work with Research Participants: The Researcher's Role". In Hua, Zhu (ed.). Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide. John Wiley & Sons. p. 137. ISBN 9781118837467.
- ^ a b Weinthal, Benjamin (26 August 2010). "'Israel is a scum state' removed from Finnish paper's site". The Jerusalem Post.
- ^ a b Weinthal, Benjamin (24 August 2010). "Amnesty Int'l Finland: Israel scum state". The Jerusalem Post.
- ^ a b Weinthal, Benjamin (2 May 2019). "Finnish MP under fire for comparing Israel to ISIS". The Jerusalem Post.
- ^ "Finland's Amnesty head calls Israel 'punk state'". Jewish Journal. 24 August 2010.
- ^ a b Weinthal, Benjamin (1 December 2012). "Finnish politician: Jews control money, media in US". The Jerusalem Post.
- ^ Marcus, Lori Lowenthal (7 March 2013). "Turkish Youth in Holland: Hitler Should Have Killed All the Jews". Jewish Press.