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Union-owned Swedish newspaper spreads blood libel against Jews
Aftonbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden, owned by the country’s national trade union center (LO) and editorially controlled by them. It is also the largest circulation newspaper in the country, with more than a million readers. And this week it is the center of a firestorm of controversy.
In its Culture section, the newspaper ran a two-page feature article alleging that the Israel Defense Forces harvest organs from dead Palestinians. And it linked this horrific allegation to the recent arrests in the New York area of some rabbis which involved the sale of a kidney.
Several writers have already gone into some detail about how this all ties in to the centuries-old blood libel, which alleged that Jews kill Christian children and use their blood to bake matzo.
The Swedish government has been reluctant to criticize the newspaper and instead criticized its own ambassador to Israel who had the courage to denounce the publication of this article.
It is not clear if the Swedish unions, which own 50.1% of Aftonbladet, are prepared to distance themselves from this article. We’ve written to the LO today and will publish any reply they send us.
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