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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In the wake of the conflict in Gaza, David Stavrou, a freelance Israeli journalist based in Sweden, has written a piece which shows how current Swedish antisemitism - driven by the left but also embedded in the mainstream, and dominated by demands for solidarity with the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah - replicates what we are seeing in many other countries.
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