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A disgrace from Albania on a Kosovar television station

2026-07-07 22:36:02Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ENVER ROBELLI
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All it takes is one scoundrel, one pseudo-journalist, one microphone and - abracadabra - you become an expert on the history of Albania, an expert on the earth's crust of Sazan, an expert on the Zvërnec plain and, of course, an expert on Israel and Palestine. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. It has nothing to do with journalism. This is a media plague. And, as such, it must be fought.

In 1923, the prime minister of Albania was Ahmet Zogu. At that time, the country was going through a phase of political instability, poverty was great, as was hunger. In 1924, the Swiss anthropologist Eugène Pittard organized the supply of grain to Albania to help people survive. In 1921, Eugène Pittard had proposed the establishment of the Albanian Red Cross, after seeing the misery of refugees from present-day Kosovo and Macedonia in the territory of Albania.

In one of these terrible years, precisely in 1923, according to a scoundrel from Albania who spoke a few days ago on a Kosovar television show, a plan was made for Israel to take Albanian lands, or even worse: to occupy them. Not only Sazan and Zvërnec, but also Myzeqen. The scoundrel from Albania said more or less this: "I have the plan on my phone, if you want I can show it to you". Then he blurted out something about the Albanian consulate in Vienna, which in the 1930s had denounced this plan. In 2026, according to the scoundrel from Albania, the clown Edi Rama had made an agreement with Israel for this project to be realized. "We know their plan", said the scoundrel, "they come, they tell us they want to take us..." The scoundrel continued in a threatening tone, saying that "Israel owes us, because not a single Israeli was killed in Albania during the Second World War".

Damn it: how is it possible that such a person, a disgrace from Albania, who could also be from Kosovo, is given such media space? How is it possible to lie so much, in front of the world, without any consequences? There was no agreement between Albania and Israel in 1923, because Israel was founded in 1948. In the 1930s, Jewish associations in Western Europe, horrified by the German Nazis' plans to expel Jews from their homes in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, also mentioned Albania as a place where some of the persecuted Jews could be sheltered. The Albanian consul in Vienna, Kol Rrota, informed the Foreign Ministry in Tirana about these discussions and suggested that the Jews not be admitted. Rrota writes in the language of the anti-Semites of the time and insults his people by calling them "anti-Semitic by nature" (a lie that would be refuted in the following years with the rescue of hundreds of Jews in Kosovo and Albania).

According to Swiss historian Franziska Zaugg, who has just published a valuable book on the rescue of Jews by Albanians, the central network of this humanitarian action was Kosovo. This may not please historians of the communist school in Tirana and their followers, who see history in a black and white format.

As for Consul Col. Rrota: he served in Vienna, a city where Nazism enjoyed great support in the 1930s, perhaps even more than in Germany, with the exception of the capital of the Nazi movement, Munich. After World War II, most Austrians grew up with the lie that they were Adolf Hitler's first victims; in reality, they were his zealous supporters and servants in his crimes - all the way to the Balkans. The myth that Austria was Hitler's first victim has since been dispelled thanks to the Austrians' own critical approach to history.

It is clear that a consul like Col. Rrota had no opportunity or authority to decide on the admission of Jewish refugees. This would be decided by the royal government in Tirana and King Zog. They did not pursue this issue further, but the Jews did not insist on it either, because the majority preferred to return to their original homeland.

In 2026, these facts are not taken into account at all in the Albanian media swamp. All it takes is one scoundrel, one pseudo-journalist, one microphone and - abracadabra - you become an expert on the history of Albania, an expert on the crust of Sazan, an expert on the Zvërnec plain and, of course, an expert on Israel and Palestine. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. It has nothing to do with journalism. This is a media plague. And, as such, it must be fought - even when it is a peripheral phenomenon.

The video of the Albanian scoundrel talking nonsense on Kosovo television has been liked almost 8 thousand times, while it has been clicked 231 thousand times and shared over 1100 times. The journalist (or, better said, the pseudo-journalist) has created this opportunity for him. He has not asked him any critical questions. He has let him talk, slander, deceive, manipulate historical facts.

Albanians have hundreds of reasons to protest against the most corrupt government since the fall of communism in Albania, but hooligans eager for protagonism should not be tolerated in the public space and in the digital world. Journalists' associations should protest against this scab under the guise of journalism, because their duty is to protect the ethics of the profession and not just to hang around in embassy offices just to secure some funds.

The phenomenon of systematically questioning objective and professionally verified truths has serious consequences for any society, especially for those societies where the media competence of the public is not very developed. In such societies, various scandals appear and they turn the undermining of trust in the truth into a business. Thus, not only the truth, but also any public entity is delegitimized.

In such environments, facts have no impact; they serve only to twist emotions, to produce "felt truths" - these are lies. Lies of the post-fact era! The constant agitation against every rational voice and the deliberate use of conspiratorial ideologies aim to make public agreement on things that are visible and undeniable impossible. Thus society is polarized.

The responsibility of the media lies in consistently maintaining quality journalism, so that manipulative networks and deliberate influences are fully revealed. Dividing society into groups that blindly believe and others that radically reject even clear evidence destroys the shared understanding of reality that is essential to any democracy.

When systematic lying and denial of facts become normalized, the common ground for political discourse and compromise disappears. This then paves the way for the dysfunctionalization of the public sphere and democratic institutions. /Telegraph


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