More On Swedish Blood Libel
“Journalist” doesn’t know if story is true or not
But, because it involves Jews, let’s just assume the worst. Don’t call him an anti-Semite though!
A report in Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet earlier this week alleging that Israel was harvesting Palestinians’ organs for transplant continued to cause ripples on Wednesday with statements by Israeli officials, the Swedish Embassy in Tel Aviv and the writer of the report.
“I have a personal opinion, it concerns me that it’s true,” Donald Bostrom, who penned the story, told Israel Radio en route to an emergency meeting at the editorial offices Aftonbladet, presumably to discuss the aftermath of the report.
“I was [present] during the interview that night, I was a witness. It concerns me to the extent that I want it to be investigated,” Bostrom told the station. “But whether it’s true or not – I have no idea, I have no clue.”
He was referring to a Palestinian witness who recounted an incident where a Palestinian was allegedly taken by the Israeli military and his body returned several days later – lacking some internal organs.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon responded to the report by saying: “This is a blood libel and the worst type of anti-Semitism.”
Yes, it is. And that is all you need to know about Europe. It is a rat’s nest of anti-Semites. I said it yesterday and I’ll repeat it today: Joseph Goebbels could have written that article.
- Aggie
Carol said,
August 19, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
This is a little off-topic but not entirely.
So apparently Barney Frank had a run-in with some woman who used the term “Nazi” in connection with Obamacare. I found myself standing in front of a couple of typical Seattlites in the elevator. Girl says to boy, Barney Frank just ate her up (an ill-advised choice of terms, perhaps, but lefties never have had a sense of humor) and girl continued to chortle over Barney’s rhetorical skills. Boy also enjoys. Then girl says, “I am so sick of people bringing up Nazis. Don’t they realize is totally trivializes what people went through?” This being Seattle, it’s a safe bet that these two were typical soft anti-Semites so prevalent around here, and she’s upset about Nazi-talk.
I hate this place.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
August 19, 2009 @ 2:21 pm
They sure did talk about Nazis a lot during the Bush administration.
I’ve lost faith in the country. I’ve had too many conversations with typical Americans who “didn’t know” that these things happened during the anti-war protests.
- Aggie
Martino said,
August 19, 2009 @ 4:16 pm
Classic hypocrites.
Joe O'Neill said,
August 20, 2009 @ 5:59 am
It is very easy to label people as Anti-Semites, as a European I refuse to take such insults from Americans who, after having slaughtered tens of millions of indigenous native Americans now feel that it is O.K. to give such labels.Europeans and all non blacks evolved over many tens of thousands of years despite facing many difficulties after having left Africa where mankind first evolved.Those who settled in what became the Fertile Crescent and the Eastern Mediterranean had it very easy compared with those who chose to settle in harsher climates such as Northern Europe or the Asian steppes.Because of the harshness of the climate families were naturally smaller and communities close knit eventually taking on the mantle of clans and then later tribes and nationalities.Over the tens of Millennium each Nation grew to trust only those who came from within their own borders and built up a mistrust of strangers based on factual atrocities committed by strangers.This is inbuilt to such an extent that they had there own religions and languages and, to this day they do not trust strangers who look different, dress differently,talk differently,eat different foods,. worship different deities and have different cultural habits ( such as families choosing wives for sons instead of people being allowed to fall in love) ,despite this most Europeans have accepted the vast pan European cultures since the formation of the EU.Other non-blacks such as those semitic peoples of the middle East are more extreme in their hatred and mistrust of each other,going back to ancient times whereby each tribal group believe(d) that their particular tribe was especially chosen by God , so that the Nomadic tribes with their Cattle, sheep,goats and camels had a deep and lasting hatred of Non nomadic peoples whose only meat was from pigs and rabbits ( animals that could be kept in towns and could not be used by nomads because they could not be driven like their flocks).Does any body really believe that if there is a God ,then he would concern himself with whether or not people could eat camels but not rabbits or smelly goats but not pigs,lets get real and get the mote of our own eyes before we throw stones at others (forgive the long winded mixed metaphorical rage).
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
August 20, 2009 @ 6:15 am
Joe,
I don’t mind your rage. What I mind is bs excuses for yet another blood libel coming out of Europe. It has nothing to do with goats or pigs; it has to do with the culture originally created by the church. That hatred of Jews was held over by Martin Luther into Protestantism, and, incredibly, even Marx and anti-religious secularists decided that hatred of Jews was something they needed to incorporate into their own “faith”.
It has absolutely nothing to do with color. Jews come in all skin colors. It has to do with European Jew-hatred. Instead of expressing rage against the messenger (me in this case), why not put your anger somewhere more appropriate – the Swedish journalist-liar who is spreading the blood libel yet again? The blood libel has incited endless mobs who have committed hundreds of thousands of murders of Jews. Appalling, barbaric, European mobs. That is what a pogrom is.
- Aggie
Joe O'Neill said,
August 20, 2009 @ 6:31 am
Imagine if Jews had their own countries and large numbers of people of another faith came to that country and because of their superior skills at particular enterprises such as banking or retailing took jobs from Jews ,and caused Jews to be indebted to them .Do you HONESTLY ,HONESTLY DEEP IN YOUR HEART not think that there would be ( for want of a better word) Anti Goyimism ?.Anti Semitism should be seen for what it really is Jealousy and fear of a superior group of people.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
August 20, 2009 @ 7:02 am
Jews did have their own country. And it was taken away in ancient times. I don’t know if we have “superior” skills at particular enterprises or not – other than running from gentile mobs. We got very good at that.
We have a culture of learning, which comes from the desire to study Torah. That generalized into many fields – law, medicine, etc. We didn’t “take” jobs away from anyone. How can you take jobs away in medieval Europe? It was the medieval church which declared that Jews couldn’t own property, couldn’t farm, etc. In the modern era, we add to the economy, usually, creating jobs, in the countries that weren’t busy annihilating us.
And no, I don’t accept your premise that we would simply build gas chambers to handle the problem of foreign labor or unemployment. I also think that anti-Semitism is very complex. Some of it might be jealousy, some of it is just mob hatred, started by the church, who, originally was in competition with the Jewish faith. Why would you be jealous of poor villagers living quietly in their little shtetls in the ghetto areas of Europe? What’s to be jealous of? What do you think they had?
And most of it is unknowable. Think about it – if it was rational, why would the Germans have diverted needed military resources to killing Jews? Why waste their own productivity that way? Why tie up all those trains?
There is nothing rational about anti-Semitism. I wish there was, because then we could do something about it. The Swedish article is a perfect example of a blood libel. It is every bit as insane as the first blood libels coming out of Britain in the 1200s. They haven’t changed a bit.
- Aggie