Coming back to Aftonbladet’s infamous article by Daniel Boström, there was an attempt by its cultural editor Åsa Linderborg to close the debate, summarising that Aftonbladet was right and its critics were wrong (En svart paradox. Åsa Linderborg om organstölderna och medlöparna). She suggests that the fact that the Israeli Pathologist Yehuda Hiss admitted to, and was charged and judged for thefts of organs from deceased persons, proves that Aftonbladet was right. In today’s Svenska Dagbladet Jesús Alcalà breaks her argument into pieces, showing that the Hiss affair is old and that it cannot be connected with the case Boström uses (Aningslösheten är farlig). In fact, the family of the person from whom Boström contends organs were taken, have publicly said that they do not believe anything was taken.
Alcalà rightly challenges the sources of Boström and points out the consequences of his article, in spite of its dubitable grounds. In the wake of the article, tThere already are several examples of grand anti-Semitic lies about Israeli thefts of organs. since the 1960’s leftist journalists in Sweden have thought that journalism is not there to describe but to change society. To a certain extent all of us have a duty to try changing what is unrighteous. But only when we are in line with truth we can accomplish anything. And up till now Boström and Aftonbladet have not been able to show that there are grounds for the insinuations in the article.
Lisa Abramowicz
2 years ago
Good points, Anders!
Can I use for Swedish Israel-Information’s English language website?
Best regards
Lisa
Gustav Adolfsson
2 years ago
Det fanns människor som inte såg, eller inte ville se, nazisternas vidrigheter före och under andra världskriget. De fick senare byta åsikt och skämmas. Utan jämförelser i övrigt så finns det många idag som inte VILL se (för man kan ju inte undvika att se) Israels alla övergrepp och den apartheidpolitik som bedrivs. De kommer också att få skämmas en dag… Själv skäms jag för alla skenheliga kristna!
Fred Haan
2 years ago
Strikes me as odd that as a direct result of the AB article, an interview with the previous head of a large hospital surfaces where he admits that organs have been harvested on an ongoing basis. This isn’t anti-semitism, this is just fact.
Anders Gerdmar
2 years ago
No, everything said against a Jewish person cannot be regarded anti-Semitism. The Israeli judicial system itself judged Dr Hiss. What borders to anti-Semitism in this affair is the way Aftonbladet here builds conspiratory theory, connecting the New Jersey story and the alleged theft of organs at the postmortem of the Palestinian young man (whose family does NOT suspect any theft).
Anders Gerdmar
2 years ago
@Gustav
Jag tycker det är orimligt att jämföra nazisternas förbrytelser med det vi ser idag, i Israel eller någon annanstans. Då behöver man sättas sig och studera hur utrotningen t ex i Auschwitz gick till. Sedan måste alla krigshandlingar bedömas efter de lagar som finns, Israels och andras.