#Sigge Eklund

[omarera]

Below is a long text. The reason I share this is that I think the article below gives a great insight into Swedish culture and debate climate and views of celebrities taking stands in political issues. I think it is a good to read for those who demand the Swedish cast to actively speak out on different political issues.

It also touches upon Sigge and Alex podcast. I am frustrated to see the polarization and cancel culture and also the narrative of Sigge as a Zionist based on that he followed some Insta accounts. And also Edvin and Felicia being labeled Zionists by association. Maybe the article can give some perspectives.

Sigge Eklund is a provocative person, and his and Alex Schulman’s pod is both popular and controversial. You kind of either love them or hate them, or both. They are both authors, both outspoken what I would call leftists, Alex for example write columns that are very leftist. They are also quite full of themselves and can be very condescending to others and also take ideas and concepts to extremes to prove points. Their takes are often debated. There is a bit of irony in that they have received criticism for not standing up for Israel and stated they were against Hamas attack and now Sigge also being accused of being a Zionists. Sigge is criticized from both sides.

With that said, below is a translation of an article from SvD, one of Swedens large morning papers. It discusses Swedes silence. It shows how celebrities that do speak up are treated in Sweden. Let’s just say they are shot down. Swedes don’t have a tradition of appreciating celebrities to speak up on subjects they are not fully educated on. It’s so easy to get lost. But also that we need to talk about but it’s so damn difficult.

The article below is from Nov 25th 2023. It’s also important to consider when reading it. I still think it showcase Swedish culture really well and our debate climate and view on celebs speaking up and how polarized and infected and hard the long ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict (now genocide) is for us to discuss.

link to article it’s probably locked for non-subscribers.

“That's why I keep quiet about the war"

During a dinner Björn Werner (the author of the article) was at recently, the question came up. The one that not only cuts through the public debate but is strong enough to tear apart friendships and social nets and relationships.

Alex Schulman's voice chokes with anxiety. He stabs himself. And stakes himself again.

"It freezes me now when I hear you're going to talk about it."

Now it must be done. Sigge Eklund has taken the plunge. They will talk about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

It's fast. Just a few minutes. A gentle ripple in a podcast of over an hour. Like few others in public Sweden, the two men are otherwise always carefree open with what they think and feel. Bridges to important colleagues, friends and acquaintances are burned in every other episode. They do everything for the content. But not now.

It is at the very beginning of the war. Barely a week since Hamas kidnapped women, children and the elderly and brutally murdered 1,200 Israelis. Israel's intense bombing campaign has only been going on for a few days. Nevertheless, the Swedish debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict is so feverish that the two seasoned authors and media men prefer not to talk about it.

"I hardly think it can be done without arousing so much hatred that in the end it won't be worth it," Schulman continues.

Eklund basically agrees:

"I've really felt at a loss for words," he replies and goes on to explain that it's not because he doesn't have anything to say, but that he himself doesn't know exactly what he's going to say once he starts. The feelings are too strong.

It is, of course, easy to call the podduo cowards. That they want to wriggle out of this deeply polarized conflict without clashing with anyone – whether listeners or advertisers. But in that case they are not alone.

There are many who, for social and understandable reasons, avoid the question. The price of taking a stand can be very high. For one thing, what one says can be taken out of one's mouth and reshaped into something grotesque and ugly. For one thing, the risk of losing control over one's own emotions is great. Then it is easy to end up wrong. To say wrong.

An abyss you like to avoid thinking about and talking about, if you can.

During a dinner I attended recently, the question came up. Someone admitted that he "sympathizes with Israel's cause here." Another then raised his hand: "I don't agree with that, and I think we should leave it like that, so it will be nicer." The entire table nodded in agreement. Everyone exhaled. A similar dynamic exists in the group chats I'm in, which have morphed from lively, fun conversations to cautious, polite flirting. Everyone sees the dark clouds towering. Nobody wants to see the rain fall.

A lot of this depends, I think, on the complexity of the situation. The vast majority of people outside the Israel-Palestine conflict are touchingly in agreement that it is terrible for all innocent people to die, regardless of nationality. It is all the more difficult to navigate beyond this single, self-evident opinion. Because one needs to have one after all. In everything else it is more difficult. They are looking for a scapegoat. The violence can't just happen? It must be someone's fault. Demanding a ceasefire also leads to the natural follow-up question: and then?

In both the issue of guilt and in the conversation about the future, dangers lurk wherever you turn: those who rush forward without a map and compass risk quickly running into both anti-Semitic and Islamophobic cuts.

Not that it is necessarily easier for those who actually take the time to read up on the issue. Is it about a multi-thousand-year European oppression of Jews? That Arab leaders have consistently refused to accept Israel's existence since the UN proclaimed the state in 1948? Is it the fault of the many Jewish settlers who drove Palestinians from their homes? Arab countries that in turn expelled Jews from theirs? That Palestinians by both Israel and Arab countries are used as a real political playing cards? Netanyahu? Hamas? It's just a matter of choosing. Everything is right – at the same time.

Whatever you think, however educated you are, there is always a weighty opinion that speaks for the opposite of what you have come to.

The situation is bizarre. Despite the fact that there is a terrible conflict going on where innocent children are killed daily, it is therefore a socially viable, perhaps even wise, strategy to just keep quiet.

the public also has results on how it goes for those who speak first and think later. When 160 celebrities signed a petition to stop the bombing of Gaza, they came under fire for not showing the same commitment during Hamas' massacre of Israelis. Artist Stina Wollter's star now appears to be falling after she mixed up her commitment to Palestinian children with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. And the competence of the Green Party's Märta Stenevis is being questioned because she liked Stina Wollter's (not entirely clear) apology.

It is quite unusual for external events to cut so deeply into interpersonal relationships. Not least in the consensus-seeking country Sweden, which is otherwise known for its lukewarm political temperament. While the 1968 movement in Paris led to street battles between students and police, the student movement in Stockholm occupied its own union building. When Sweden, after 200 years of non-alignment, joins NATO, everyone just sighs amicably. The war in Ukraine has, if anything, acted as a unifying force, where people from left to right could confidently state that the world in this particular case really is black and white.

But there is a force in the Israel-Palestine conflict that is strong enough to tear apart the social net and relationships. Partly because of the horrific images we are all exposed to, but also because of the historically deeply infected nature of the issue. It's all starting to resemble the climate of debate in Britain about Brexit, which went to such levels that the prestigious British etiquette magazine Tatler raised the topic as one of twelve things you absolutely should not talk about at the dinner table.

Anyone who puts their faith in the ability of public discourse to unravel complex events also has nothing to gain from the issue of Israel-Palestine. The ongoing debate has quickly degenerated into a hopeless meta-debate about who thinks the most "wrong". The amount of constructive, well-read and nuanced posts that have been put forward since Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7 and Israel's subsequent bombing of Gaza can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Expressen's Per Wirtén succeeds, through a combination of solid humanism and understanding of the matter, to tackle the subject in a dignified way. Another is SvD's Elaf Ali, who from his personal perspective testifies to the polarization in the Swedish debate.

But - the more texts are about things that could just as easily take place at a dinner with a lost footing. There and in social media, the waves are high. Are leftists anti-Semitic because they react more strongly to Israel's attacks than to Hamas? Are right-wing debaters really Islamophobes, because they so fervently defend Israel while at the same time advocating cooperation with the newly anti-Semitic SD?

Who is foolish enough to stick their head into this hornet's nest willingly?

Maybe Alex and Sigge are doing the only reasonable thing. Despite one's instincts screaming to react when news of dead children sweeps by, there is not much to say – because hardly anything can be said without being taken as revenue for something else. But the question is whether it is even possible to be silent. According to today's twisted logic, there is also something to be said.

Shortly after "Alex and Sigge's podcast" was published, the right-wing comedian Aron Flam responded to X (recently on Twitter): "So Alex Schulman cannot condemn murder, torture and rape? Hard to say anything about murdering women, young, old, pregnant, babies? Speaking. He who is otherwise so full of goodness.”

And it hasn't stopped there. In a later episode, both podcasts return to the consequences of not taking a stand. Their social media inboxes are overflowing with anger.

Swedes are one of the world's most educated peoples, and at least until very recently formally non-aligned. The majority have few personal connections to either the millennial suffering of Jews or the Palestinian people's quest for their own state formation.

If even a remote, frostbitten nation of newly urbanized farmers can't pull themselves together, who can? If even we can't talk to each other, then who can?

#don’t know how to tag this #Swedish. culture ? #why Swedish celebrities are silent? #edvin ryding #felicia truedsson #Sigge Eklund #and also #omar rudberg #yr cast

[edvinception]

According to this artile ApoY will have a movie premiere in Los Angeles. Apparently Sigge annoucned it in his podcast and said it's happening in May.

I don't know whether it's true or not but May seems to be a reasonable timeline.

#edvin ryding #a part of you #En del av dig #Felicia maxime

[himmelno44]

Thank you for the tag @necessarytragedies😊

Comfort film: I think I'll have to go with E.T because it's my most beloved movie of all time.

Comfort food: a really rich tomato and mushroom soup with homemade sourdough bread! in a dream world a glass of red wine to that, haha!

Comfort clothes: well, when my grandpa passed away 2019 my grandma gave me one of his flannels and whenever life is unbearable I put it on, cry a bit, close my eyes and pretend that I'm getting a hug from him again. (watch me go and put it on right now...)

Comfort song: I have so many 🥺but for example take on the world- you me at six, letter to yourself - shiraz lane, stay awake (dreams only last for a night) -all time low, if I ever leave this world alive - flogging molly, not alone - mcfly, fallen angel - poison I COULD GO ON FOREVER.

Comfort book: the comfort book by matt haig is a given but also a swedish book called livets små njutningar by sigge eklund.

Comfort game: basically every single super mario bros game that exist. but especially the old but golden one super mario bros 3.

I never know who to tag and it makes me feel uncomfortable for some reason🙈 so if you want to do this people please consider yourself very much tagged because I do love to read them 🥹

#and again thank you so so much for tagging me 🥺

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Uma Parte de Você: filme teen sueco chegou na Netflix

Felicia Maxime, Edvin Ryding e Zara Larsson são os protagonistas de “Uma Parte de Você” (A Part of You), um filme sueco escrito por Michaela Hamilton e dirigido por Sigge Eklund que acaba de estrear na Netflix. A história gira em torno de Agnes (Felicia Maxime), uma jovem de 17 anos cujo mundo é virado de cabeça para baixo após uma tragédia. Sua irmã mais velha, Julia (Zara Larsson), é o modelo…

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#estreia #Filme #netflix #Streaming #Suécia #Uma Parte de Você

[nordnews]

Podcast profile and entrepreneur Sigge Eklund is a guest in P4 Extra on Friday afternoon.Eklund is current with his new novel "The Group" - hear him talk about the work on the book...

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4.29.19

#film #letterboxd #watched #shame #ingmar #ingmar bergman #liv ullmann #max von sydow #gunnar björnstrand #sigge fürst #birgitta valberg #hans alfredson #ingvar kjellson #vilgot sjöman #frank sundström #bengt eklund #barbro hiort af ornäs

[sagahlna]

chatt med känd

Jag har bråkat med Sigge Eklund. Skickade kritik mot hans könsrolls-prata. Den var inte särskilt välformulerad och jag fick inte fram vad jag menade så lade mig typ platt...lite pga överväldigad. Blev så förvånad att jag fick svar? 

Nu ska jag skriva om tre saker jag tänkte på senaste tiden: 

Den första är var jag ska bo. Jag tycker om Malmö. Eller nej jag tycker om de, och det, som finns i Malmö. Mina vänner och ett litterärt sammanhang. 

Vissa gör typ ingen distinktion mellan plats och personer men jag mår på riktigt dåligt av att det är så platt här. Jag känner bara dåliga känslor kopplat till själva landskapet Skåne. Allt är så marknära, det är obehagligt. 

Problemet och det som är underbart med Malmö är typ den litterära värld som finns här. 

Jag upplever att det finns en social aspekt i den som gör att det alltid känns som att jag tabbar mig som fan. För att jag nästan tillhör, för att jag nästan är vän med arrangörer, för att jag nästan skulle kunna bli bokad till ett evenemang. Jag tillhör nästan gänget, men inte riktigt. Som fd mobboffer är det min värsta känsla. För att det framkallar någon slags liksom hudlös desperation i mig, jag vill så gärna vara med, jag skulle kunna avsäga mig alla mina principer för att få vara med. Ingenting får mig att känna mig så ensam i mig själv som den liksom jagsvaga desperationen. 

Men mitt skrivande och litterära sammanhang här får mig också att känna mig, för första gången någonsin, normal. Det finns människor med samma referensramar som mig. 

Så på samma gång får mitt liv i Malmö mig att känna mig som mitt tidigare jag mobboffret, och som mitt nya fräschaste jag, den unga och begåvade poeten (ursäkta min vidriga självbild)

Det finns en liten social streber i mig som jag föraktar och inte vill kännas vid. Att jag typ gärna vill bli någon. Rädslan för att misslyckas med det/ocheller att den viljan övh existerar gör att jag vill dra härifrån. För det enda jag vill...egentligen...är ju att skriva dikter. 

Två känslor finns i min kropp: jag vill inte uteslutas av flocken, jag vill skriva. För första gången någonsin är flocken och skrivandet samma sak? En insikt. Att vara människa bland människor. Fan vad det är en ansträngning, att förhålla sig till en grupp.

Den andra saken jag tänkt på mycket är...hur fan folk blir kära och ihop hela tiden? Vad är en normal relation? Fattar inte hur folk liksom...har en kille i fyra år...skaffar ny kille...är ihop med honom i fyra år..osv osv tills de träffar the one eller något. 

Det värsta är när folk ba...nu ska jag ha en singelperiod. Jag känner liksom att jag varje gång jag varit i ett “förhållande” har känt att jag varit i en förhållande-period och att jag liksom återgått till normaltillståndet sedan när jag blivit singel igen. Jag kan absolut inte relatera till att vara en del av ett par. 

En tredje sak jag tänkt mycket på är alkohol. Min relation till alkohol är väldigt laddad. Jag kan festa på ett så jävla gränslöst sätt. Jag känner mig som Knausgård i min kamp fem. Eller- jag har det liksom verkligen i mig att vara sådan. Alltså jag älskar att vara full, för då känner jag I have no issues. Det är som att världen öppnar sig för mig. Jag blir lycklig, euforisk, och jag kan inte sluta. Jag går aldrig hem, jag säger konstiga saker, och blir någon slags förvriden version av mig själv. Jag kan säga elaka saker. Hemska om mig själv. Gå hem med vilket äckel som helst, vakna bakfull och upptäcka att det är jag som är äcklet. 

Mitt vardagsjag är så uppstyrt, kontrollerat, duktigt. Är jungfru. Det är som att festandet står i relation till det. Mitt egentliga problem är liksom...att jag pendlar mellan extremer, tror jag. Vill aldrig mer ha en bakfylla. Där fan det värsta som finns. 

Tack gode gud för att man aldrig upptäckt knark! Jaja. Nu fläker man ut sig på internet igen men men. Psyket är allmängods. Allt för att känna sig less lonely. Kanske är problemet egentligen samtiden? Att allt ska problematiseras hela tiden? 

Sluta tjura börja spela gura (gjorde det imorse, vilket jävla mys det var) 

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Fredrik Eklund husband Photo Information and their life details Reality Star

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About Fredrik Eklund :

About

Land agent and genuine essayist who picked up reality distinction on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York.

Prior to Fame

He was an on-screen character in his nation of origin of Sweden.

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He has sold land to top stars, including Cameron Diaz and John Legend.

Family Life

He is the sibling of creator Sigge Eklund. He…

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[omarera]

he was following the IDF, that isn't just any Insta account though. and he blocked fans when they asked him why. that's the behavior of a Zionist.

Following accounts does not make you inherently agree with them or make you have the same views as them. Following your logic Sigge has the same political views as all of Swedens political parties, for example. Since he follows them all on Insta. But you single out the ones that fit your narrative. You can follow accounts for different reasons. That is not evidence. Blocking people is not evidence either, immature maybe but not evidence on a persons political stance. And many in SM are not really interested in listening to what a person says if they have made up their mind about them. The ones going after someone are often not open for a genuine discussion. They often just want to prove their own point and twist what the other one says to fit their own narrative.

I have issues with Sigge too, he is a controversial person, he is out to create debate. If you dislike him you have every right to do so . I’m not here to convince you to like him or state what political opinions he has, bc he hasn’t displayed them in this case. Like many Swedes don’t do publicly. See the article.

But just don’t label people to have political views and also defame them based on nothing.

And again, I recommend you read the article if you want to understand the Swedish context in this issue.

Edit: he has stated he is not a Zionist.

#ask #Sigge Eklund

[edvinception]

Edvin will guest the second season of this podcast series. Sigge that directed En del av dig is the host along with his partner in crime Alex schulman are the hosts. It's a podcast by Prime videos. In the pod they talk about and promote new and up coming things on Prime video.

I don't know when the new season will air or when Edvin will be on.

I also want to know if it's tied to something he will be on, whatever that would be or if it's just because he has such a huge passion about movies and movie making. And because he worked with Sigge.

#edvin ryding

[mellowyknox]

IKEA “Dreams: Sigge Eklund”

 IKEA “Dreams: Alexandra Rapaport"

IKEA "Dreams: Silvana Imam"

Production: New Land Stockholm Director: Gustav Johansson Editor: Joakim Pietras Colorist: Ola Bäccman

Year: 2016

#ikea #home #furniture #campaign #sweden #new land #stockholm #gustav johansson #joakim pietras #ola baccman #2016 #niclas johansson #portrait #scandinavian #fantasy #set design #night

[bokbabbel]

Plötsligt var mina föräldrar två andra personer. Min mamma - som förälskade sig i en annan man - hittade sig själv. Och det var skrämmande att se på nära håll. Att se en förälder hitta sig själv - och den andre förlora sig själv.

"Rum", Alex Schulman & Sigge Eklund

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The Eklund and Gomes roadshow

About six years ago, “Million Dollar Listing New York” star and Douglas Elliman broker Fredrik Eklund had a vision. While sitting at the rooftop pool at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles with his business partner, John Gomes, real estate legend Barbara Corcoran and his older brother, Sigge, Eklund said that “we will be living” in L.A. at some point. This July, that prediction came true. Eklund sold his Tribeca condo and moved to Beverly

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#Aaron Leider #Aaron #Leider

[louiseeklund]

4 September 2018 Tisdag

00:58

Jag släppte ut katten strax innan midnatt. Dumt drag. Nu måste jag ligga vaken tills att hon knackar på.

01:04

Hon låg på matbordet på gården och väntade i princip på att jag skulle bära in henne. Skönt att hon har de ögon hon har, ficklampan lyser upp henne från alla möjliga avstånd.

01:37

Lilla huset. Kip är vaken. Jag måste lyssna på jazz för att somna.

09:40

Vad filmar Sigge Eklund med? Vilken kamera? Filmkamera?