Our regular contributor Karl Pfeifer has been targeted by a particularly insidious form of the blood libel. “To accuse me, to have participated in a ‘massacre’ is part of a projection customary in many German circles. The best-known and by far the most widely held example of projection of guilt is the defamation of Israel as the ‘Nazis of today.’ This is one of the most objectionable forms of antisemitism after Auschwitz,” Karl writes. Read his full account here.
Swedish journalist Mats Skogkär has an intelligent piece on Foreign Policy about what he regards as the deeper significance of the Aftonbladet scandal. “To Israelis, Sweden seems destined to misunderstand their predicament,” he writes. “Tucked between Finland, Norway, and Denmark, Sweden has the friendliest neighbors in the world. Israel has the world’s most hostile and resentful. There is a Swedish no-doubt-about-it conviction that differences, however deep and old, always can be settled in negotiations.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now likely to weigh in on the Swedish government’s refusal to condemn the article published in the daily Aftonbladet alleging - without a shred of what proper journalists would define as evidence - that IDF troops “harvested” the organs of Palestinians.
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