Bloodthirsty Liberal

Mayor of Malmo equates anti-Semitism with Zionism

News flash to all concerned: Zionism is the Human Liberation Movement of the Jewish People. When you think Zionism, think Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. The early Zionists and founders of the State of Israel, and the modern Zionists today, represent the hope of the Jewish people to live together, in peace and dignity, in our homeland.

Anyone who believes that Zionism is a dirty word is at best misguided, but if they are over twenty years old, more likely a hater.

On to the Swedes:

Swedish Jews are upset about comments made this week by the mayor of Malmo, who said anti-Semitism and Zionism were both forms of “unacceptable extremism,” and urged local Jews to disassociate themselves from Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip.

“These statements and other events in Malmo are making the Jewish community feel very uncomfortable and some people, especially the young, are leaving the city,” George Braun, the president of the Jewish community in Gothenburg, about 250 kilometers from Malmo, told Haaretz. Ilmar Reepalu, mayor of Malmo, Sweden’s third largest city, spoke in an interview published in a Swedish newspaper on Wednesday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “We accept neither Zionism nor anti-Semitism,” Reepalu said. “They are extremes who put themselves above other groups, seeing others as something lesser.”

He said it was “terrible” that Jews felt so insecure in Malmo that they felt compelled to leave, but that a recent city-center demonstration in solidarity with Israel by local Jews stirred up feelings against them

“I wish the Jewish Community would distance itself from Israel’s violations of the rights of the civilian population in Gaza,” he said. I wish that representatives of Muslims in Malmo would clearly say that the Jews in Malmo shouldn’t be mixed up in the Israel-Palestine conflict.”

Malmo’s Jewish community has complained about harassment by extreme left-wing and right-wing activists, but mostly by radical elements from the city’s Muslims, who make up about 15 percent of the population of 250,000.

Malmo drew international attention last March when the city council barred spectators from a Davis Cup tennis match in which Israelis were competing, citing public order concerns because of planned anti-Israel protests.

The problem isn’t with the Jews; it is with the haters who deny us freedom of speech or assembly outside of Israel, and who create propaganda about what Israel is. Israel is a normal nation surrounded by abnormal amounts of hatred and hostility. This hatred, sadly, has plagued the Jewish people for centuries.

The Swedes should be ashamed that only the Jewish population is uncomfortable with the Mayor’s remarks. They should all be upset.

- Aggie

As Sweden goes, so goes Ukraine

News from the cesspool:

Stories appearing on several Ukrainian Web sites claim Israel has brought around some 25,000 Ukrainian children into the country over the past two years in order to harvest their organs.

The claim, which was made by a Ukrainian philosophy professor and author at a pseudo-academic conference in Kiev five days ago, is the latest expression of a wave of anti-Semitism in the country. It comes a few months after a Swedish tabloid ran an article alleging that Israel Defense Forces soldiers have killed Palestinian civilians for their organs.

Jews, Israel and anti-Semitism have become a major motif of the presidential election campaign in Ukraine, with some figures making anti-Semitic statements and others condemning them. Some candidates, including a Jew and someone whose rivals claim is Jewish, blame a third rival - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko - for bringing anti-Semitism into the race.

It is appalling that there are any Jews left in Ukraine. The history of pogroms in the early 20th century was second only to the Holocaust in terms of slaughter of Jews. Granted, a distant second, but nevertheless, Ukraine is the biggest Jewish graveyard, the location of the worst tragedy of Jewish history, next to Germany and Poland during the Third Reich. I am horrified that there are Jews there still willing to discuss or defend themselves against the violence that is that culture. “Just leave!” I want to scream. “Get out of there!”

“Ukraine’s political system is a parody of democracy,” Russia’s Chief Rabbi, Berel Lazar, said.

Vyacheslav Gudin told the estimated 300 attendees of the Kiev conference a detailed story about a Ukrainian man’s fruitless search for 15 children who had been adopted in Israel. The children, Gudin said, had clearly been taken by Israeli medical centers, where they were used for “spare parts.” Gudin said it was essential that all Ukrainians be made aware of the genocide Israel was perpetrating.

This is known as projection. The Ukrainians apparently wish to perpetrate genocide against Israel, at some dim level in their lurid minds, and so they fantasize that it is Israel that wishes to murder their children. It is a classic blood libel.

The Swedes started this current round of European blood libel obsession. I wonder how it will all end? In the past, it ended in pogroms, and Ukraine was the most fertile ground for pogroms in all the world. If you go to the link, you can read about how the political class in Ukraine is blaming the Holocaust on the Jews, and claiming that Jews caused famine in Ukraine in the ’30s. These are sick puppies.

- Aggie

Where others see problems and difficulties, I see opportunity:

The European Jewish Congress (EJC) on Tuesday reacted with “alarm and extreme concern” over reports that the Swedish Presidency of the European Union is leading calls for the division of Jerusalem and supports a unilaterally declared Palestinian state.

Moshe Kantor, president of the EJC, said potentially such a move could become “an impediment to peace”

According to reports, European Union foreign ministers are expected to officially call next week for Jerusalem to be divided to serve as the capitals of both Israel and a Palestinian state. A draft document authored by Sweden, the current holder of the rotating EU presidency, implies that the EU would recognize a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood.

Maybe we’re just a little slow (maybe?), but plucky Sweden can show us the way. How ’bout it, Bjorn? Why not offer half your capital to, say, Nicaragua? Call it Stock-agua. Sounds like something you use making gravy.

Other Israel-bashing nations could get in the act. Norway’s and Poland’s merged capitals would become Oslaw. Mmm, delicious. Syria and Russia would yield Damascow.

This is just the latest in anti-Semitism practiced by Sweden. Just make sure your stomach is empty before clicking the link.

Maybe a more accurate title would be that the journalist has found his brain under the pile of shoes in the back of the closet and is now “thinking”.

The Swedish journalist who wrote a controversial article claiming Israel Defense Forces soldiers kill Palestinians in order to harvest their organs is reportedly reconsidering his views after a recent visit to Israel, Army Radio reported on Thursday.

Donald Bostrom, according to the report, recently withdrew from participating in an anti-Israel conference to be held in Beirut, citing his recent, and highly contentious, participation in a media-affairs conference in southern Israel as the cause.

“The visit to Israel and the fact that I was part of a fair dialogue made me rethink the whole issue,” the Aftonbladet journalist reportedly told close aides.

At the media conference in Dimona, where Bolstrom was frequently interrupted by hecklers, the Swedish journalist admitted he had no proof beyond the allegations of the families of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army.

His interviewer, Israeli television presenter Yair Lapid, questioned Bostrom’s journalistic ethics and accused him of being an anti-Semite “because you are willing to believe the Israeli government would take part in such atrocities.”

Bostrom said, “In Sweden, like myself … we strongly support Israel’s right to exist in peace. If you violate the rules … we have a tradition to criticize. The fact is that the families said what they said. That’s a normal article,” Bostrom said.

At the time, Bostrom commended the organizers for inviting him and giving him a chance to defend his work in Israel.

I challenge our readers to search the top tier newspapers anywhere in the Western world to come up with an article that libels any group the way the Swedish article libeled the Jews. Think about the nasty pejoratives typically flung at any group - racial, ethnic, religious, whatever binds them together, and locate an article that plays to the hate narratives. For the article to be a contender, the accusations must be spun out of air and fairy dust. And I am not talking about tabloid rags or angry outbursts on blogs; I mean the established media. I don’t think it can be found.

- Aggie

Remember the famous TV blooper about the reporter who instead of saying “high White House source” said “high white horse souse”?

Yeah, well that guy was Edward R. Murrow compared to this guy:

Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom was given a cold greeting in Dimona, where he attended the city’s annual International Conference on Communications on Monday.

Bostrom, who has been severely criticized for an article he wrote in the Swedish daily Aftonbladet alleging that Israeli soldiers had stolen body parts from dead Palestinians during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, was greeted by a throng of protesters upon his entrance to the hall where the conference was held, and his keynote address was disrupted by catcalls from the audience.

During an interview with journalist and talk show host Yair Lapid, Bostrom defended his article, claiming everything he wrote was backed by evidence.

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“If you had seen what I saw, you would have made the same claims I did. I promise you that the article contains no rumors or lies,” said Bostrom.

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When asked where he got the evidence to make such serious accusations against Israeli soldiers, Bostrom said the fact was that Palestinian families had made the claims, not that the claims themselves were true. Lapid in turn accused Bostrom of being led on by Hamas and becoming part of their propaganda campaign.

I could make the claim that I am the father of Gisele Bündchen’s unborn baby, not Tom Brady, but that doesn’t make it true. (A gentleman doesn’t kiss and tell, but one too many caipirinhas, and, well, say no more.)

Let’s call this guy SECO, because he’s a Swedish tool.

Sweden has qualms about burning bunnies to heat Bjorn’s bungalow:

Residents in Stockholm are divided over reports that rabbits are being used to make biofuel.

The bodies of thousands of rabbits are fuelling a heating plant in central Sweden, local newspapers say.

The city of Stockholm has an annual cull of thousands of rabbits to protect the capital’s parks and green spaces.

The rabbits, not native to Sweden, are mainly the offspring of pets released by owners, and are said to be destroying parks in the capital.

Since they have no natural predators, the city administration of Stockholm employs hunters to kill the rabbits.

Tommy Tuvunger, one of the hunters, told Germany’s Spiegel website that 6,000 rabbits were culled last year, and another 3,000 this year.

“They are a very big problem,” he said. “Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough, a contractor comes and takes them away.”

The frozen rabbits are then taken to a heating plant in Karlskoga which incinerates them to heat homes.

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“In the town where they are burning them the reaction of the residents is quite relaxed,” Mr Savage told the BBC World Service. “But in Stockholm there’s the big city attitude of the rabbits being cute.

But they are quite all right with mistreating animals not quite as cute as bunnies, Jews:

No recent media infraction captures the dangers of abandoning journalistic standards as vividly as the August 17, 2009 Aftonbladet story alleging Israel plunders and trafficks Palestinian organs. Appearing in its Culture section, the account was a concoction of baseless innuendo, false charges and guilt-by-association conspiracy theory, weaving disconnected events from past and present. Within weeks, the claims metastisized in Middle East media into lurid variations on the old blood libel of Jews plundering organs and drinking the blood of non-Jews. Incendiary cartoons and fantastic stories of Jewish child-snatching appeared.

It’s one of the oldest libels in the storied tradition of anti-Semitism, and the Swedes have merely dusted it off and put a good dance beat underneath it. And they don’t seem bothered in the least to have done so.

Okay, fine. Here’s one Jew who’s cute as a bunny.

Their court has ruled

The Swedish Chancellor of Justice has decided not to launch an investigation into a newspaper that alleged that Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian civilians in order to harvest their organs, Army Radio reported Saturday.

Swedish judicial authorities ruled that the report in the tabloid Aftonbladet did not constitute racism and was therefore legal, according to Army Radio. The ruling was in response to two requests submitted to the Swedish Chancellor of Justice, Army Radio said.

According to Swedish law, a publication may be considered illegal if it is threatening or expresses contempt towards a person or group of people based on their race, ethnicity, or nationality.

Isn’t that remarkable? The blood libel is not an expression of contempt towards the Jewish people? How dumb are the Swedes? Are they really that dumb?

The blood libel is legal and acceptable in all parts of Europe, as far as I know. It is embedded in the culture. Europe has been spreading the blood libel throughout the world since roughly 1290. They are good at it and proud of it.

- Aggie

Enjoy!

- Aggie

“Botched” surgeries performed in Britain, Swedish docs

You thought I was only kidding when I suggested that Swedish surgeons were stealing British body parts?

A hospital which flew in Scandinavian surgeons to reduce waiting times is being sued after it was alleged that one third of the operations carried out were botched.

Surgeons from Sweden, Denmark and Finland were flown into Britain between 2003 and 2006 as part of a £3million scheme to speed up hip and knee replacements.

But concerns were raised about the quality of the work carried out and many patients fear the surgeons were insufficiently trained or skilled.

More than one third of people operated on at Weston-super-Mare General Hospital (WGH), Somerset, had an unsatisfactory result and six legal cases are now being considered.

Terry Heath, 65, who lives with wife Patricia in Bristol, is taking the hospital to court after a botched knee replacement operation left him unable to walk without crutches.

The former Airbus worker said his life has been ‘changed completely’ by the overseas surgeon’s mistake.

Terry said: ‘When I got the phone call about Weston hospital getting Swedish surgeons over to ease waiting lists I said if they are genuine surgeons I will have it done.

Poor guy. This needs to be investigated.

- Aggie

Those British docs… always joking around

Man collapses with ruptured appendix… three weeks after NHS doctors ‘took it out’

By Daniel Bates

After weeks of excruciating pain, Mark Wattson was understandably relieved to have his appendix taken out.

Doctors told him the operation was a success and he was sent home.

But only a month later the 35-year-old collapsed in agony and had to be taken back to Great Western Hospital in Swindon by ambulance.

To his shock, surgeons from the same team told him that not only was his appendix still inside him, but it had ruptured - a potentially fatal complication.

In a second operation it was finally removed, leaving Mr Wattson fearing another organ might have been taken out during the first procedure.

The blunder has left Mr Wattson jobless, as bosses at the shop where he worked did not believe his story and sacked him.

Mr Wattson told of the moment he realised there had been a serious mistake.

‘I was lying on a stretcher in terrible pain and a doctor came up to me and said that my appendix had burst,’ he said.

‘I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I told these people I had my appendix out just four weeks earlier but there it was on the scanner screen for all to see.

‘I thought, “What the hell did they slice me open for in the first place?”

‘I feel that if the surgery had been done correctly in the first place I wouldn’t be in the mess I am today. I’m disgusted by the whole experience.’

Mr Wattson first went under the knife on July 7 after experiencing severe abdominal pain for several weeks. He was discharged but exactly a month later he had to dial 999 after collapsing in agony.

Following the second operation his incision became infected and he was admitted to hospital for a third time for treatment.

He said: ‘I had a temporary job at a sports shop but when I took in two medical certificates saying I had my appendix out twice they didn’t believe me.

‘Now I’m helpless. I can’t go out and find a job, I can’t go to interviews, I can barely walk and am in constant pain. Before the first operation they told me I had to have my appendix removed and when I woke up afterwards they said it had been a complete success.

‘But then I keeled over in agony one month later and when they did some tests at the hospital we could see the appendix was still there on the scans.

‘As far as I was aware they took my appendix out and no one told me any different.

‘I have no idea what they did take out, but I want to find out what went wrong.’

A spokesman for Great Western Hospital confirmed that a representative had met Mr Wattson and that an investigation had been started.

He was unable to confirm what, if anything, was removed in the first operation.

I’d look around for my spleen if I was Mr. Wattson. Or ask the Swedes. Swedish researchers are known to be involved in an experiment involving stolen British spleens. There needs to be an investigation.

- Aggie