Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet writes an inflammatory anti-Semitic article that even its own editors admit is so lacking in factual basis it cannot be printed in the news pages. It is relegated to the “Culture” section. Which says a whole lot about the Swedish perception of culture in a climate of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism nurtured by […]
Monthly archives: August 2009
Instructions to Swedish journalists: "Spice it up with fiction"
“Spice it up with fiction”“Tell small lies”“Make it up”“Simple tricks for blending fact with fiction, telling half-lies and writing semi-literary works”This is how Swedish journalism’s king of the Radical Left, Jan Guillou, describes the recipe for achieving success in journalism. He goes on to state that today “most journalists (in Sweden) are better than in […]
How the West was won
Or, more correctly, conquered. On Thursday August 27, Swedish TV’s national debate programme “Debatt” (in Swedish) dealt with the anti-Semitic Aftonbladet/Donald Boström allegations – entirely unsubstantiated – of illegal organ trafficking by Jews and Israelis. Although the spotlight has naturally trained on the murky agenda of the extreme Left-wing newspaper and its collaborators, the real […]
Sweden’s Aftonbladet: an ideology in search of a newspaper
And, not surprisingly, a good translator. Aftonbladet’s journalistic ethics are matched by the shoddiness of its translations. For the background in a nutshell, see this 2-minute long film. After first leveling what can only be described as a Mediaeval blood-libel against the Jewish state and Jews everywhere, the extreme Left-wing tabloid achieved pariah status among […]
Aftonbladet’s defence begins to crumble
STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS The Swedish Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz commented this afternoon on the Aftonbladet affair.He says that the government could go much further in its criticism of the Aftonbladet article without in any way contravening the constitution. “The government has considerable leeway in such matters. A minister can without risk […]
Hear the Israeli position from two Israeli ambassadors
Tired of Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt’s silence?Here are two Foreign Ministry officials who do speak out. They are both from Israel. Carl Bildt caused a major rift between his country and Israel after ordering that Sweden’s ambassador to Israel withdraw her remarks from the embassy website. There she expressed dismay over a highly inflammatory […]
In Sweden, silence is golden – literally
Just ask Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt The gold is in the form of Swedish tax revenues paid dutifully by hard-working Swedes lucky enough to still have a job. That gold is used by the Swedish government. Not for the Swedish population but for the Palestinian Arab population. 700 million kronor per annum, and increasing […]
Sweden's highly voluble Carl Bildt suddenly prefers silence
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt says it is improper for his government or any of its designated diplomats to comment on racist slurs by a Swedish newspaper.This after Swedish left-wing tabloid Aftonbladet published unsubstantiated anti-Semitic allegations linking together the shooting of an Arab terrorist in the West Bank in 1992, a nationwide Israeli campaign to […]
Swedish Greens emerge in fashionable brown shirts
Swedish Green Party politician Per Gahrton, who is also Chairman of the rabidly anti-Israel “Palestinagruppen”, strongly condemned Sweden’s ambassador to Israel. This after Ambassador Ms Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier expressed her distaste over Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet’s grotesque anti-Semitic article. The populist daily painted a picture of Israel and Jews worldwide engaged in a murky conspiracy to […]
Open season on Jews
Just ask Swedish left-wing tabloid Aftonbladet: in New Jersey in the US a scandal recently broke regarding a number of city officers, businesspeople and private citizens allegedly trafficking in human organs.The anti-Semitic Swedish daily Aftonbladet did not write an exposé about Americans trafficking in human organs. Nor about the corruption of power – after all […]