Editor Jan Helin of Swedish Aftonbladet was only too happy to publish Donald Boström’s science fiction story about Israeli soldiers killing Palestinians in order to steal their organs. The same editor completely disregards real-life stories about organ trade involving destitute…
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Aftonbladet continues to ignore criticism of Bostöm article
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Swedish Aftonbladet has been ignoring criticism of Boström’s article for a long time now. Jan Helin, editor of Sweden’s largest newspaper even refuses to reply – see letters from Andrea Levin on CAMERA or below. It is characteristic of the…
Scandinavian shame – the Boström affair
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Norwegian newspapers never made much of a fuss over Donald Boström. Perhaps we ought to be grateful they did not offer him a job? Vigilant little Document.no is on the case however. From a recent article on Donald Boström: Aftonbladet’s…
The New Republic on Sweden’s Free Speech Charade
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Look through copies of Swedish Aftonbladet from the 1960′s and you will find articles lauding Pol Pot, who killed of one fourth of his own population. USA, it was believed, was ultimately to blame. Here is a excerpt from Benjamin…
Donald Boström expands on “organ-theft” story
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Even while Scandinavia is still reeling from the debate over Donald Boström’s blood-libel story in Aftonbladet, Mr.Boström is evidently happily elaborating on his story. From the Malaysian National News Agency BERNAMA: ALGIERS, Sept 18 (Bernama) — More than 1,000 organs…
Scandinavian news agencies: TT and NTB
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Back in March a number of Norwegian newspapers published an NTB (Norwegian News Agency) article quoting an Israeli academic for saying that Norwegians were “unintelligent” and “barbaric”. The academic was Manfred Gerstenfeld, and he had done nothing worse than publish…
Boström blood-libel: Swedish authorities make nice noises
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Swedish authorities are making nice noises over the manner in which they consistently have failed to deal with frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Israelism for the last few decades, culminating in Aftonbladet’s recent blood-libel-story. Here is a letter they are sending out: We understand…
Economist on Boström-blood-libel: “A Nordic newspaper’s newsmaking”
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The Economist must be excused for not knowing, but Scandinavia happens to be home to some of the best journalism in the world. Why,only the other day suprised readers of Dagbladet could read of how Mossad actually offered to kill…
UPJF on Boström: Incitation à la haine
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The UPJF has sent a letter of protest to the Swedish ambassador in Brussels, Magnus Robach. This site is greatly looking forward to his reply. Excellence, Monsieur l’Ambassadeur Magnus Robach, Le président, Dr René Trau et la direction du B’nai…
Take action! Contact the Swedish embassy here!
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Help us keep Scandinavia clean and free of racism! Go here, edit the letter in accordance with your thoughts, and press: “Send to the Swedish Embassy in Tel Aviv”. Don’t wait. Do it now. Tell your friends. Now go here…
Editorial on Boström: “The disgusting brew”
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Unauthorized translation from DagenMagazinet: Aftonbladet is Sweden’s largest newspaper. On August 17th the newspaper, in its culture section, printed a long “article” by freelance journalist Donald Boström. The article was a disgusting anti-Semitic brew. Aftonbladet’s editors should have discovered that…
Tulip:Union-owned Swedish newspaper spreads blood libel against Jews
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Key segments in the Norwegian labour movement are obsessed with Israel, a nation they would have ignored if it had been populated primarily by arab muslims. Update from TULIP below: Union-owned Swedish newspaper spreads blood libel against Jews By admin…
Jew-horror movie possible source of information for Donald Boström
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While this site has no way of knowing, the movie below might have been one of Mr. Boström’s sources for his infamous Aftonbladet body-snatcher article. Yet we do not have any evidence that this is so, so we refrain from…
Klassekampen: Why Sweden should not apologize
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Many a poor soul is baffled over how to explain his take on the Boström-scandal these days. Those who were in favor of publishing the Muhammed cartoons are now less certain whether the freedom of the press extends to the…
Aftonbladet sanitizes English translation of Boström’s article
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Ilya Meyer warns about how Aftonbladet has published an English translation of Mr. Boström’s article – and sanitized it in the process! Read Ilya Meyer’s full post here and follow the links. An excerpt: What Aftonbladet has done is to…
Palestine Committee: “Possible organ-trade creates knot Israel-Sweden”
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In 2008 the Norwegian Palestine Committee received NOK 3 700 000 from the state. This site is not familiar with how much it makes by peddling t-shirts emblazoned with the text “Boycott Israel” and a graphic of a bleeding orange…
Aftonbladet’s defence is crumbling
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From IlyaMeyer.com: The Swedish Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz commented this afternoon on the Aftonbladet affair. He says that the government could go much further in its criticism of the Aftonbladet article without in any way contravening the constitution. “The…
Dagsavisen: reaction to Boström article is “rabid”
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Dagsavisen’s take on Boström’s blood libel appears to be that the Israeli reaction is politically opportunistic and helps create anti-Semitism. What Mr. Iversen does here is to spin the scandal over Boström’s smear into criticism against Israel. It’s crude, but no mean feat…
On Boström: “There is a fine line…”
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From the Swedish (This is a Norwegian blog) quality newspaper SvD, by Cordelia Edvardson: Certainly we need to be very protective of the freedom of expression, but there is a fine line between the right, and sometimes the obligation, of…
DagenMagazinet: “Freedom of expression – in Swedish”
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From the editorial in DagenMagazinet on August 25th: Freedom of expression – in Swedish Sweden’s ambassador to Tel Aviv, Elisabet Bonniers, has condemned the anti-Semitism of a certain article in Sweden’s largest newspaper. But Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt distanced himself from…