re: #242 Bryntrll

Some responses from the Swedish ambassador in Tel Aviv, criticizing Aftonbladets allegations of organ trafficking:

[Link: gfx.aftonbladet-cdn.se…]

After receiving criticism from the media, the article is now nowhere to be found…
[Link: www.swedenabroad.com…]

The Swedish government distanced themselves, not from the article, but from the ambassador’s criticism of the article.

The Swedish government distanced itself Thursday from an ambassador’s condemnation of an article accusing Israeli troops of stealing Palestinian Authority Arabs’ organs. The Swedish Foreign Ministry clarified that, unlike Ambassador to Israel Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier, it does not view the article as “appalling.”

Bonnier’s condemnation “was solely the judgment of the embassy, and designed for an Israeli audience,” the ministry said. “However, the Swedish government is committed to freedom of the press.”

A government spokesman confirmed that Sweden’s government did not agree with ambassador Bonnier’s response. Members of Sweden’s Green Party went further, and said Bonnier should be called back to Sweden for having made statements opposing free speech.

The Swedish government apparently thinks jooos are appalling, not antisemitism.
And I think the editor of the “newspaper” thinks the article is accurate:

The editor of Aftonbladet has rejected criticism of the article, and accused his opponents of “using centuries-old anti-Semitic images,” such as that of European blood libels, “in an apparent attempt to get an obviously topical issue off the table.” The editor, Jan Helin, said that “a strong propaganda machine” was behind the appalled reactions to the story.