Disgrace: Swedish paper prints blood libel about Israel harvesting Arab organs
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor characterized the story as “racist hysteria at its worst.”
“No one should tolerate such a demonizing piece of medieval blood libel that surely encourages hate crimes against Jews,” Palmor said. “This is a shame to freedom of expression, and all Swedes should reject it unconditionally.”
Israel’s embassy in Stockholm was expected to issue a sharp denunciation…
A competing newspaper, Sydsvenskan, ran an op-ed on the story under the headline “Antisemitbladet,” in an obvious reference to Aftonbladet’s name.
“Whispers in the dark. Anonymous sources. Rumors,” wrote Swedish columnist Mats Skogkär. “That is all it takes. After all, we all know what they [the Jews] are like, don’t we: inhuman, hardened. Capable of anything. Now all that remains is the defense, equally predictable: ‘Anti-Semitism? No, no, just criticism of Israel.’”
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The timing is just a little suspect, wouldn’t you say?
UltimateBob on August 19, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Thank you very much, Allahpundit.
Loxodonta on August 19, 2009 at 4:26 PM
It always is.
Disturb the Universe on August 19, 2009 at 4:27 PM
I was so happy until I read this.
Loxodonta on August 19, 2009 at 4:34 PM
If they had any stones they’d print those Mohammed cartoons as the opposing view. Cowards.
jimmy2shoes on August 19, 2009 at 4:38 PM
No I distinctly saw lib4eva behind the grassy knole when lib343 made its comment. Of course I did see lib343 eight floors down in the cafeteria having a coke five minutes after the comment so he may just be a patsy.
LevStrauss on August 19, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Thank you, AP.
kingsjester on August 19, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Thank you, Allahpundit. I wonder if he/?she was hearing “Don’t Stop Believing” and it suddenly stopped playing at 3:17pm?
DrAllecon on August 19, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Thanks, Allah…
Oh, and by the way, I get all tingly when you act all manly like that!! LOL
D2Boston on August 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Allahpundit on August 19, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Thanks. You looked just like Charles Bronson there for a second (I mean that in a good way).
29Victor on August 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Thanks, AP. That comment was uncalled for.
crazy_legs on August 19, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Swedes, the people who screwed over their neighbors and made peace with the Nazi’s and then practiced forced sterilization of “undesireables” until the mid ’70s accusing Israel of crimes against humanity. Priceless.
29Victor on August 19, 2009 at 5:00 PM
you are next
runner on August 19, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Thanks, Allahpundit.
runner on August 19, 2009 at 5:05 PM
I agree that the Swedish paper should not have printed such a thinly-sourced and inflammatory “story”. And I think AP was justified in banning the poster for that stupid comment.
But in other Israeli news, guess who’s making a splash over in the Promised Land?
The driving force behind the ‘birther’ movement has found her star is rising in Israel.
orange on August 19, 2009 at 5:20 PM
What does that other news have to do with anything? Heidi and Spencer are big stars in America for being useless and douchey. I’m not sure that I’m picking up what you’re putting down, unless you’re saying that Israelis aren’t allowed to be fascinated by that person.
Or you’re just being obnoxious by pretty much saying, “yeah, yeah, Israelis probably aren’t harvesting organs, but look, they’re fascinated by the Birther movement. They must be racists!!!”
mjk on August 19, 2009 at 5:34 PM
You seem obsessed by this whack job. Why is that? Bitterly clinging onto a loon to justify your own desire to remain ignorant on the reality of what Obama is doing?
lorien1973 on August 19, 2009 at 5:44 PM
WTF? Just because you believe he is a natural born citizen of the 50th state of the US doesn’t mean it’s true.
What it means is that we can’t prove otherwise, and we don’t even have anyone to prove it to… history will be the judge whether “birthers” are “loons”.
Califemme on August 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Makes you feel…so…sort of insignificant, doesn’t it?
Can we have your liver, then?
http://tinyurl.com/lrfut9
connertown on August 19, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Yeah, but when history calls y’all a bunch of loons you’ll just question their documentation too.
29Victor on August 19, 2009 at 7:01 PM
PERFECT!!
Fighton03 on August 19, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Trying to hijack a thread? That can get you banned too.
Del Dolemonte on August 19, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Of course “history” will call them that. Because 99.9% of “historians” voted for O’bama.
Del Dolemonte on August 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM
I’ve been on political discussion forums for over 10 years now (started out in the old “Usenet” days) and over those 10 years I would say 99% of the anti-Semitic stuff has come from the Left. These are same people who would soon call Bush “Hitler”.
Del Dolemonte on August 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Eternal praise to Allahpundit!!
Sweet_Thang on August 19, 2009 at 8:56 PM
LIBERAL343 is posting already under another very similar nic
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liberal4eva on August 19, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Has that been banned too?
CWforFreedom on August 19, 2009 at 9:00 PM
And then all hell broke loose! Amen AP!!!
Sweet_Thang on August 19, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Thank you for proving my point. Much appreciated.
29Victor on August 19, 2009 at 11:47 PM
Fixed.
29Victor on August 19, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Bless you, AP!
Or is that offensive to an atheist?
didymus on August 20, 2009 at 12:31 AM
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