Bloodthirsty Liberal

2009 had the highest reported incidences of Antisemitism since they began checking

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday called the record number of anti-Semitic incidents across the United Kingdom last year “deeply troubling”, urging Britons to exercise greater vigilance.

Brown’s comments come as the Community Security Trust reported that 2009 was the worst year for anti-Semitic incidents in Britain since the Jewish group first began tracking them in 1984.

Brits attack British Jews because they don’t like Israel. That makes sense, doesn’t it? You see, Jews can’t be British, they must be Israeli, and therefore, since Israel is a the world’s only Jewish country, it is ok to attack Jews in Britain. Because, in their twisted little minds, it is ok to attack Jews and the justification for it comes along as needed, later.

- Aggie

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