Israel disturbed by Swedish silence

By  HERB KEINON AND JONAH NEWMAN, J’Post:

Israel is “bothered” that the Swedish government has not publicly condemned in Stockholm an article that appeared in the mass-circulation Aftonbladet tabloid on Monday claiming IDF soldiers snatched body organs from dead Palestinians, the Foreign Ministry’s senior deputy director-general said Wednesday.

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Lisa Abramowicz, secretary-general of the Swedish-Israel Information Center, a small organization which works to combat anti-Israel bias in the Swedish media, said that stories like this are common in Sweden.

“The situation is really, really, bad,” she said of the anti-Israel sentiment in Swedish media.

Abramowicz said that Swedish newspapers often make Israel out to be the enemy, while championing the Palestinian cause. Aftonbladet is the “worst,” but not the only newspaper, in publishing partial rhetoric against Israel, she said, not only in its news articles but on its editorial page and in the culture section.

“Some people are more equal than others, and Palestinians are more equal than any others in the Swedish media,” Abramowicz said. “This is what we are force-fed with morning, day and night, even in the serious newspapers.”

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