An August 17th article by Swedish photojournalist Donald Bostrom on longstanding suspicions amongst Palestinians that Israeli soldiers might have been involved in an illegal organ harvest conspiracy predictably sparked controversy and acrimony between the governments of Israel and Sweden.
With their exasperated and precipitate reactions, Israel officials once again underscored the accuracy and precision of an analogy made by the late founder of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who likened the Israel’s stability to a “Spy Nest” some 30 years ago. A government whose very security and stability is threatened by the publication of a critical article should drastically review its policies to see what’s wrong with its trembling foundations. The same rule could be justly applied to Iranian authorities whose severe crackdown on the dissident media highlights major political shortages which the country suffers from; however, the Israeli lobby is so formidable and influential as to convince the “international community” to take its side in the face of such a “legitimacy crisis” while Iran has not ever nurtured such a network of lobbies worldwide.
It was not surprising that Israeli officials found their reputation tarnished by a simple article in a not- world-renowned press outlet. But with countless newspapers, TV channels, and websites around the globe that serve as a mouthpiece for Israel , the blatant exercise double standards shocks me incessantly.
The multilateral attacks on the freelance journalist rang the alarm to inform us about the profound influence of demagogic and obsolete instrument of the “anti-Semitism” accusation, and the blindfolded assumption that every piece of criticism against the government of Israel should be condemned as “defamatory, anti-Judaic and racist”.
Although I’ve long severed my hopes from Iranian officials and politicians, I should confess that they’ve prudently pinpointed the roots of what they refer to as “global Zionism”: the notion that Israel is a superlative country and everyone who dares to challenge its crimes should be assaulted by the media.
Look at the bitter reality of how a powerful lobby can simply attribute any criticism to the label of “anti-Semitism” and in so doing, deviating public attention from the context of what’s actually being said and implying that an “oppressed”, “subjugated” and “browbeaten” country such as Israel, which has historically undergone “unjust judgments” and “blood libels”, should be immune to any criticism in order to avoid provoking anti-Semitic sentiments. Per Ahlmark, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and member of the Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism, says in his 2004 book “Det är demokratin, dumbom” that “Aftonbladet is of course worst among the big newspapers when it comes to both playing on anti-Semitic strings and then denying that they have done so”.
The very fact that there should exist a committee against “anti-Semitism” in European and North American countries demonstrates the egocentric and supercilious nature of this regime. Why isn’t there a single committee to fight the growing anti-Islamic sentiments which the European states deliberately encourage and propagate?
What is the extraordinary force which can pressure the Ambassador of the same country to denounce and attack her fellow citizen in the face of an egotistic resentment that an apartheid regime may like to complain about? I still can’t digest Ambassador Elisabeh Borsiin Bonnier’s remarks, who “clearly” distanced herself from the article by Donald Bostrom. This should call our attention to the deep roots of global Zionism.
In a Wall Street Journal opinion article on September 2, Mr. Roland Poirier Martinsson, who rushed to the aid of Sweden’s supposedly blemished reputation, writing “Such is the climate that allows Scandinavia’s largest daily to function as an anti-Israeli publication”. The Globe and Mail ran an editorial the same day that said, “It is not the government’s role to denounce the nonsensical ramblings of a free society. By acting as if it is, Israel gives succor to those who oppose free speech … as when a Danish newspaper cartoon that depicted the Prophet Mohammed led to demagogic protests in the Muslim world. As a democracy, Israel should not descend to that level.”
The exertion of double standards is crying out from such statements. How deplorable is the comparison of offensive cartoons against an Abrahamic Prophet who some 1.5 billion people follow with the critical article that simply questions a possible violation of international law in one country out of the U.N.’s 193 member states?
What power could lead the Italian Foreign Minister to call on his European counterparts to denounce the article collectively, and what unseen force could drive the Swedish Ambassador in Israel to apologize for something she had no responsibility for? Has any German official ever apologized for the heartrending murder of Marwa El-Sherbini before the eyes of an official court in Dresden on July 1, 2009? Did Mr. Franco Frattini call his counterparts throughout the European Union to send a simple message of condolence or warn against the growing Islamophobia in Europe?
Countless articles full of derogatory statements and accusations against the Iranian people and authorities get published in the European and American media outlets each week; they unambiguously call the Iranian nation “terrorist” and their president a liar, a fraud and a hypocrite. The allegations of Iranian prisoners being raped in jail has been widely circulated all over the world, without anyone brining forth a single document as evidence; however, neither The Globe and Mail nor the Wall Street Journal nor New York Times nor the Washington Post has ever felt guilty of falsely spreading something which they don’t have any evidence for; they didn’t give any thought or consideration for the possibility of provoking anti-Iranian or anti-Islamic sentiment.
In how many articles has the Iranian nation been unequivocally called “terrorist”? Doesn’t it move anyone to collectively call 70 million people “terrorist”? What power does this invincible, authoritative, and egotistical global Zionism wield that makes it so impervious and so influential as to dominate headlines of world newspapers and elicit apology from the Swedish Ambassador?
Dear Mr. Ziabari. You missed the whole point.
This Swedish article is a 1 page article (2 with pictures) with the title “they are taking our organs!”, that mentions two events:
1) allegations of organ harvesting by Israel from a Palestinian family in 1992.
2) the arrest of the New Jersey jewish gang, some of which were also accused of organ harvesting, in 2009.
The pictures show 1) a dead palestinian with allegedly harvested organs, 2) orthodox jews in New Jersey brought into custody.
The connection between the two events is not explicitly written in the article. It is simply omitted.
And this is the way you should see it: (Edit: I ask you to draw your attention to the following:)
The Swedish journalist heard the Palestinians’ organ harvesting allegations in 1992. At that time, he thought that it was so unlikely to be true, that he didn’t even bother to publish it. Then, 17 years later in 2009, he sits in his arm chair read reads that a bunch of JEWS are arrested in NJ, some of which are accused of organ trade.
How on earth could the latter event increase that likelihood that the palestinians’ allegations from 1992, which he previously totally dismissed, are true? especially if we remember that these orthodox jews who were arrested in New Jersey are not even Zionist? What if the NJ jews were stealing bicycle instead of trading organs, would he also in that case choose to publish the Palestinians’ allegations from 1992?
Why is the link between the two affairs not written? simply because there isn’t any.
But, if you have the proper prejudices (what was sad for me to see that many here do) this article is for tailor-made for you: The author just leaves it for you do to the “math”,1+1 yourself: “oh.. here.. the Israelis harvest organs from the Palestinians, orthodox jews in NJ sell them for big $$$”. The jewish world conspiracy at work. Damn, these guys just love money. It is a dangerous octopus with many many arms: here, one arm of the plot is Israel, another arm of the scam is in New Jersey, hell knows where are the other arms. The Jewish people is a dangerous conspiring world disease. All the jews of the world are the same shit.
The only thing that connects the two unrelated affairs, 17 years apart, is: CONSPIRING JEWS. And this is why the article is anti-semitic, and a blood libel of the worst kind. This article is not about organ harvesting: it is about the conspiring jews and their zionist plan to control the world. And this is what made us in Israel so furious about it.
We in Israel are used to live with all kinds of ridiculous allegations and lies every day, that’s not a problem at all. We can debate if this is true or false, no problem.
And you should also take this into consideration: OFFICIAL Israel was never furious before as in this case. The pre-palnned visit of the Swedish foreign minister was cancelled because of it. And we suffered from much more terrible lies and false accusations than “just” a single case of organ harvesting, for example the “jenin massacre”. But this is the only time I can remember where OFFICIAL Israel yelled “anti-semitism!”, and not just negligible irrelavent newspapers/blogs. And damn we have a point in this case.
Aftonbladet is a tabloid of the lowest standard. Here is what the newspaper of the Swedish intellectuals had to say about this article:
http://blogg.sydsvenskan.se/snallposten … mitbladet/
and you don’t have to be highly proficient in Swedish to know what its all about… just read the title….
The article did its job. The sales of Aftonbladet doubled on that day and all of the week when it was published.
Side reading: http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3 … e=20060314
“This article is not about organ harvesting: it is about the conspiring jews and their zionist plan to control the world.”
Whoa. BTW, it’s you who’s missed the whole point. Mr. Ziabari didn’t comment one way or the other on the veracity of the article in the Swedish paper. That’s not what Mr. Ziabari’s own article was about.
links:
http://blogg.sydsvenskan.se/snallposten/2009/08/17/antisemitbladet/
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3
Cheers :)
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President Barack Obama has allowed foreign troops into the USA to RFID Chip gunowners guns! Is this not a Top End Treasonous act?
These foreign troops could be considered as declaring war on the Constitution and the citizens of The United States of America would they not?
It has also just been disclosed that a large penitentary ( Fema Camp ) has been secretly built at Two Rivers Montana video is on youtube.com
Local residents confirmed that they had seen a care driving around Hardin, Montana with signs on the side of the car that said: “Hardin Police”, the locals got suspicous as to the authenticity of the car and police who were foreigners as well!
We have a war on right here in the USA! The Govt. and the Globalists are trying to Balkinize the USA! They may get it if all the States secede from the Union!
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:00:23 PM
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