Inti Peredo, a senior physician at Karolinska, was accused by a colleague of having for several years harassed and discriminated against Jewish doctors and spreading Jewish hatred in social media.
When Assignment Review follows up the Swedish media's publications on the allegations, it turns out that the maladministration that should have taken place in the hospital has been magnified and that information has not been checked.
Several doctors become one
The Swedish daily newspaper has written in an article that "several Jewish doctors have raised alarm that they have been exposed to serious anti-Semitic harassment".
But the reporter tells Mission Review that he mainly built his articles on the material from the notifying doctor, who has shown him e-mail exchange and documents.
Mission review has talked to the other two Jewish doctors on several occasions. None of them have presented documentation that goes against the conclusions of the external investigation - which found no evidence that Inti Peredo had harassed anyone on anti-Semitic grounds.
The Swedish daily newspaper makes a correction after Assignment Review contacts them - several doctors now become one in the article. At the same time, they state that they also have other sources for their articles.
"Could not independently verify"
Aftonbladet, which has published a large number of articles on the allegations, also makes changes after the Assignment Review begins to ask questions.
Among other things, it has been written that the drawings that Inti Peredo shared on Facebook illustrate how, "Hitlerian Jews are responsible for massacres of Palestinian children and other civilians".
- The information about posts about hitlerian jews comes from a DN article in October 2018. It has been changed so that hitlerian jews has been removed and it has been made clear at the end that we have removed the incorrect information, says Eric Rosén, assistant editor at Aftonbladet.
"Landed in removing this quote"
Eric Rosén says that they also changed the "two or three" headings concerning the charges.
- In the preamble, for example, it says "allegedly have", "should have", but in the title we have not been clear enough that it is alleged.
Dagens Medicin wrote in an article about the accused doctor: "He has written that Hitler has failed to kill all Jews, the Jewish doctor tells Dagens Medicin".
This is a serious charge and what have you done to make sure this is true?
- I can't answer it in detail unfortunately, but after hearing from you I have made a new assessment and landed in that this quote is removed. We have not been able to independently verify that task, says Christina Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Dagens Medicin.
The report "Karolinska and the Jude Hate" will be sent on Wednesday 6 November. You can watch it at 12pm on SVT Play or 8pm on SVT1.