Abusing freedom of speech

[shira]

Having lived through a revolution in Romania and following five years in Egypt, I rejoiced when my husband Zvi was named ambassador to Sweden.

Indeed, I looked forward to what was to be our last posting in a friendly Western country. This time we would not be isolated, I thought; there would be glittering functions, invitations to Royal events, and we would bask in a friendly atmosphere.

Ah, well. It did not quite happen that way. This was the time of the second Intifada and nobody - nobody - loved us.

Thus, for instance, when a massive demonstration was held against the United States before its 2003 invasion of Iraq, people marched by the tens of thousands under our window on their way to the US Embassy. Among the many banners prominently displayed, one was particularly striking: "Bomb Tel Aviv, not Baghdad," it said in bold black letters.

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[shira]

3. Western Governments Fund Blood Libel

from HARRY'S
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/redirect.php?r=1c4f7096eec9b7e40b82bcef8b61ad5b&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hurryupharry.org%2F

The Jerusalem Post reports:

Israeli daily Ma’ariv reported Sunday that Bostrom’s 2001 book Inshallah, which deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reportedly included the allegations of organ harvesting, was financed - among other bodies - by the Swedish Foreign Ministry. There has been no response to the claim so far.

Also:

The Bethlehem-based Palestinian news agency Ma’an published a report over the weekend which it said confirmed allegations that IDF soldiers kill Palestinian civilians to harvest their organs.

The charges appeared last week in Sweden’s left-leaning Aftonbladet newspaper and have since been widely quoted in Palestinian and Arab newspapers.

“They plunder the organs of our sons,” read the headline in Sweden’s largest daily newspaper, which devoted a double spread in its cultural section to the article.

Ma’an, which is funded by Denmark and the Netherlands, headlined its feature: “Disappearances, Holding Bodies, Organ Theft - Intertwined Crimes.”

But is it really any surprise?

Norway’s government, with the royal family’s blessing, is currently rehabilitating with a national celebration and museum in his honor Knut Hamsen, the Hitler groupie who in 1943 gave his Nobel Prize to Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels.

While Sweden, where a few years ago a third of young people doubted there was a Holocaust, has enabled Moroccan expatriate Ahmed Rami - whose Radio Islam is a 22-language flagship of Holocaust denial, Jew-hatred, and demonization of Israel - to poison the well of non-Muslim as well as Muslim public opinion.

Far from being “free speech in action,” Sweden’s anti-Israel hatred is too often subsidized by the government. A recent report by the respected NGO Monitor shows that the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Diakonia, the multi-national NGO Development Center (NDC), and the Swedish Mission Council (SMR) fund 20 major NGOs that “routinely accuse Israel of ‘genocide’, ‘ethnic cleansing’, and ‘apartheid’, and some compare Israeli military and political officials to Nazis.” As Professor Gerald Steinberg puts it, “The path from this demonization to the blood libels of Aftonbladet is short and direct.”

Along with recent HRW revelations with their Saudi connections, it appears momentum is gaining and masks are slipping in both the MSM and in many NGOs.

[proteus_lives]

4. This article exposes a very ugly side of Sweden.

Neutral my ass.

[shira]

5. wow....my 2 deleted posts above were just a continuation of the OP, I wonder what was objectionable

....to the poster(s) here who alerted on it twice!

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