Sweden and the Jews

2006-04-07T16:42:00.000-07:00

Sweden & the Jews

Who are the ones accusing the Israelites?
A testimony to the dawn of the new millennium

“This hatred is … both understandable, reasonable and justified.”
- Sweden 2003

“Jew pigs!”
Stockholm, Sweden 2002

“DEATH TO THE JEWS!”
Stockholm, Sweden 2004

Sweden and Israel during the second intifada (Arabic for “uprising”) after 2002:

“Sharon also destroyed the peace process a couple of months ago, through his provocation on the Temple Mount”
Hillevi Larsson MP, Social Democratic party
Parliament debate, 2002/0162, statement no 119 (February 7, 2000)

“Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount in order to provoke.”
Murad Artin MP, Left-wing party, Parliament interpellation 2001/02:348 (April 4, 2001)

“Sharon ignited the embers.
“The Al Aqsa uprising began on the September 29, 2000 with the Israeli right-wing politician Ariel Sharon visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It was perceived as an insult to the Muslims and their sanctuaries.”
Sydsvenska Dagbladet morning paper (April 5, 2002)

“The Temple walk started the uprising.
Some months earlier he had taken a walk on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. His venture awoke dismay amongst the Palestinians and was regarded as a gross provocation. The visit at the Temple Mount released a Palestinian uprising,
the second intifada.”
Swedish (national) Television (January 23, 2003)

“The second intifada started after Ariel Sharon, followed by thousands of armed Israeli troops, visited the place of al-Aqsa and The Dome of The Rock at the Temple Mount in eastern Jerusalem.”
Gellert Tamas at the Olof Palme Center (May 21, 2003)

“Sharon is also the reason the second intifada, the al-Aqsa intifada, started. He caused the increased rivalry between the Islamic groups and Arafat’s secular followers by visiting the Temple Mount.”
Lev Grinberg, Swedish Palestine Groups (SPG) (September 17, 2003)

“The ongoing Palestinian rebellion was started by the Israeli Prime minister walking up to the Temple Mount al-Haram al-Sharif on September 27, 2000.”
TT/Dagens Nyheter (February 27, 2004)

“The intifada was triggered by the current Prime Minster Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit at the Muslim sanctuaries at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on September 28, 2000”
TT/Dagens Nyheter (April 23, 2004)

“…since the offensive began in 2000, then provoked by the march lead by Ariel Sharon, up to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem”
Aftonbladet/TT-AFP (October 6, 2004)

“The broad masses of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.”
- Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

So, was the collective Swedish media delivering the truth, in the previous, constantly ongoing, recurring statements and reports from the self-proclaimed experts, politicians and news agencies in the Swedish society during these years? Was it true that a promenade could have ignited a fire of terror to last at least for 4 years? For a primary answer there was the Mitchell Commission’s investigational report that concluded:

”The Sharon visit did not cause the ‘al-Aqsa intifada’.”

But if one cares to listen to the Arabs themselves,[1] when the Palestinian Authority’s minister of communications held a speech at a camp in Lebanon, the picture looks somewhat different from what the media and the critics constantly try to illustrate:

”Whoever thinks that this intifada started as a result of the despicable visit of Sharon to El Aqsa mosque is in error”…”This intifada was already planned, ever since the President’s [Arafat’s] return from the talks at Camp David,”
- Imad al-Faluji, Minister of Communications, Palestinian Authority, Lebanon
(December 5, 2000)[2]

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“The common people have not, and indeed cannot have, any historic comprehension. They do not know that the sins of the Middle Ages are now being visited upon the nations of Europe.”
- Theodor Herzl, Der Judenstaat (1896)

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The modern tragedy of the Jewish people

The humanity by large does know all too little about the Jews and their pathetic struggle, their modern tragic problems. All too many don’t know anything at all. There are also people that turn away and with a shrug say: It doesn’t concern me.

Is this right?

No. It is undignified for us all to know too little, undignified to know nothing at all or to turn away. On the contrary, the Jews’ overwhelming drama concerns us all. Yes, it strictly concerns the non-Jews even more than the Jews themselves. This is not a paradox, though it is not the Jews that carry the injustice that has applied to the Jewish people during the centuries. It is the whole of the non-Jewish outside world that have made this people’s destiny into an almost endless martyrium for 2000 years.

Is this to continue? Can honest citizens in states that call themselves justice states and regard themselves as representatives for modern culture in the larger or lesser completion, escape feeling undetermined or indifferent towards the Jewish people’s future destiny as a conscience grudge?
- Marika Stiernstedt, Stockholm April 1948

For my father

I, the author, prefer to be anonymous at this moment in time, mainly due to the current political climate in the Nordic region. And who I am exactly should be, and is, of less interest. Focus instead on the presented, and referred to, facts.

For Zion's sake I will not be silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, Until her vindication shines forth like the dawn and her victory like a burning torch.
Isaiah, Chapter 62:1

Influences

Just to mention some of the few that has been my inspiration, from time memorialized up until today, are the friends of Israel and Jews that have raised their voices in times of hardship. On the international arena there are many more names. In Sweden there are also several more than those briefly mentioned here, but the former liberal Swedish deputy prime minister, now author and journalist, Per Ahlmark’s book “Vänstern och Tyranniet”, (“The Tyranny and the Left”, available in English translation). This book is downloadable[3] free of charge (only in Swedish), filled to the brim and loaded with logic, and perhaps yet more interesting facts of the Swedish lefties, with testimonies from inside the halls of Swedish politics during a quarter of a century of history wreaking havoc within Swedish domestic and foreign politics. Ahlmark’s political mentor was Herbert Tingsten, former liberal chief editor at the major daily morning paper Dagens Nyheter (DN), who also wrote several books on Israel. Tingsten’s influences at that time, during and after the Second World War, was Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis and the intellectual teacher and historian Hugo Valentin, among other Swedish authors, who in turn seemed impressed and inspired by the intellectual legacy of Theodor Herzl, also known as one of the main founders of modern Zionism, the patriotic Jewish dream of democracy and independence.

Continue to Foreword

[1] Joseph Farah, The 'spontaneous' Arab uprising, World Net Daily (2001)
[2] Downloadable free clip from Israeli Foreign Ministry online web source (2004)
[3] Per Ahlmark, The Tyranny and The Left, Timbro (2003)

In Memory of Moranne Amit

2006-04-06T17:38:00.000-07:00

Most people have probably heard about Anne Frank’s diary, as it’s one of the most sold, and read, books after the Bible. Therefore many know today who Anne Frank was. They know she was a Dutch girl who was murdered by the German Nazis in a death camp. The Nazis might have tormented this girl to death, but thanks to her diaries, that also hade been made into several movies, the memory of her lives on; memories of her as a person but also as a warning example of what human beings are capable of. This is also the main thread in the Jewish religion, that one should never forget the past in order to have a future, and the memories of the dead make them live forever.

An very well known attack, when referred to in Israel, happened on February 8, 2002, when in a park outside the gates of Jerusalem’s old city, four Arab “kids” between the ages of 14 to 16 had sharpened their knives. They had earlier tried to kill Jews but failed, as the knives weren’t sharp enough. An 82-year-old pensioner had been injured during a previous failed attempted murder. They were hiding among the shrubbery in the park, the park “appropriately” called the Peace Park.

I remember Moranne Amit from when she was a young girl around Anne Frank’s age, that I met in the kibbutz were she grew up. The first thing that comes to mind is that she from the very beginning that I knew her, was a joyful girl, although at first maybe somewhat shy towards strangers, but always ready with a smile on her face behind the reading glasses where her dark doe eyes would curiously study you.

I really have tried to remember – hard – at least some time when she might not have had one of her better days, being grumpy or sad, just like anyone else at times, but I really can’t recall any such day, no matter how hard I try. So now, in retrospect, she has come to personify the image of the young Jewish Israeli in my mind, the Sabra.

Moranne had grown from a precocious girl to a young woman with a bright future ahead of her and her creative interests had grown towards legal studies. She had, from what I understood, strong ideals regarding justice, probably founded by the traditional atmosphere of solidarity that usually is to be found within the kibbutz movement. Not only was she for co-existence with Arabs, her childhood home was situated next to an Arab village, just like many others that can be found in within Israel’s borders, so during her upbringing there meant plenty of contacts with the Arab society.

But Moranne never got the chance to experience adult life with marriage, having a career or children of her own, as she headed towards the Peace Park with her boyfriend for a peaceful Shabbat stroll.

After the brutal slaying of Moranne, where she bled to death after being repeatedly stabbed while trying to flee from her attackers, and the shock of the memories that came flooding back, I was of course devastated and felt that I at least had to visit her mother and offer my condolences. Showing that you care is a personal obligation, which I also followed by visiting her family later. On a bright and sunny day, with few clouds in the sky as usual, and the warm breeze coming from the open fields, I watched the breathtaking view of the Golan hills, were once upon a time more than a thousand Syrian tanks rolled down the slopes in 1973. And I was forced to listen to what her heartbroken mother had to tell about what had happened, in detail. It was the first time since I grew up that I cried.

In Sweden though, Moranne’s fate wasn’t even noticed with even the smallest paragraph anywhere. And this in a country that routinely reports of injured Arabs after clashes with the Israeli Defense Forces. So, in a way, it was like it had never happened, as if Moranne never existed. Because if it’s in the paper – then it has happened. And if it has happened and it’s in the paper – well then it’s probably true. Most people seem to reason like this regarding the news media coverage. And to uninformed and ignorant Swedes Moranne was not even another anonymous statistic but a never even heard of murdered Jewish young woman. Or at least not until this was written. There are, counting from the start of the new millennium, hundreds of similar events like Moranne Amit’s fate, but that is something the Swedish media and politicians constantly omits and suppresses. And hence, deny.

Yet another casualty, and another life extinguished far too soon, in this seemingly forever ongoing and never-ending war.

A Peaceful Future

2006-04-06T17:36:00.000-07:00

What then is the formula for peace, in order to end this conflict? The answer is probably that there isn’t just one answer. And this is a question, which has occupied the minds of many political leaders. For my own part, I base my conclusions on historical and verified records as well as on international law, instead of myths and plain lies. Then the natural and logical conclusion should be a just two state solution. In any case such a scenario will make demands on all involved parties, and especially on the part bearing the main responsibility for the reasons as to why the conflict hasn’t ended, with passivity against the supposedly controlled active aggressive actions.

And in this question the larger part of that responsibility lies with the Arab and Muslim leaders of the world, who has initiated the hatred and refused to end the hostility with the past and ongoing aggressions against Israel. An Arab world that today alone controls a land area 500 times larger than the State of Israel, and where only Jordan controls an area 4 times larger than Israel, from the former British mandate. Every Israeli state leader has declared this and argumented in order to reach peaceful solutions. A personal observation of a couple of pointers that should be mandatory if any future peace will ever have a chance to succeed:

• The Arab world represented by the Arab League unilaterally for all its member states accepting Israel’s existence, and right to such an existence.

• The Arab political parties to immediately abolish their political programs that speak of promises such as the annihilation of Israel.

• Radical reform programs of the UN organizations, with the intent that only member countries allowed to participate are those who are recognized as democracies, and who hold democratic elections within their own countries. Dictatorships for example within the organization OIC, should not be able to misuse the UN system for political blackmail, since they themselves don’t acknowledge the democratic system’s ideas even within their own states, and therefore cannot be considered being spokespersons for the majority of people’s opinion in those states.

• Terror is once and for all defined, and thereafter combated in all its forms. Dutiful lip service and superficial condemnations every once in a while is far from enough to combat those who break all earthly, higher moral or legal values.

• Demands on the Arab Muslim part in the conflict, as the creating cause and continuation of the problems, in order for them to solve their self-inflicted problems.

• Arab leaders within the PA to be arrested and prosecuted for crimes against humanity at an international tribunal.

• The Arab world to cease with the state sponsored indoctrination of children and adolescents resembling brainwashing, which is today aimed at the new generations of Arabs and Muslims via schools, media and religious institutions. Refusal to comply is punishable by sanctions.

• Massive psychological aid is to be offered by the democratic world community to the Arab world, similar to that of when former members of various sects are being de-programmed, into democracies with society core values of individual freedom.

• The Muslim Arab world is democratized and welcomed in to the new millennium, where citizens live full lives where they enjoy full human rights.

• The Arab world’s recognition of its guilt and responsibility to take care of its own refugees. Permanent closures of the inhumane camps in Israel’s neighboring countries, such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan etc.

• The world’s aid to the Arab world is made on conditions, frozen or is withdrawn completely if no measurable results can be shown proving honest striving towards peaceful solutions.

• World recognition that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutes of approximately 80 per cent of the previous British Palestinian mandate, and therefore has to contribute largely with its four times larger land areas to constitute a national home for those Arabs in areas that don’t wish to be part of Israel.

• Offerings of Jordan or other Arab citizenship for the Arabs who lack such citizenships in the disputed areas of Judea and Samaria.

• Complete integration of these Arabs in Arab countries without the present restrictions.

• Withdrawal of land for Israel, since when it comes to security, strategic important areas are no guarantees for lasting peace, rather the opposite, and can easily be viewed as a reward of Arab/Muslim aggression and terror, which won’t give Israel safe and secure borders.

• Israel annexes permanently the Judean/Samarian areas, which Jordan already with the peace agreement (1994) has resigned all future claims to.

• Israel to allow Arabs without citizenship in Israel to live in such areas, with, for example the Nordic region’s agreements between the countries, as a role model.

• Israel grants and hands over a certain degree of self-rule, i.e. local municipal rule, where the inhabitants can control their every day regular society functions, such as welfare and hospitals, which won’t have an impact on, or can be perceived as, any threat against the State of Israel.

This is precisely what the Swedish Foreign Ministry politics policy, or any other nation whoclaims to support democratic and moral values, should have to support in my humble opinion.

Perspective and Proportions

2006-04-06T17:31:00.000-07:00

As already stated, Israel consists of less than one per cent of the entire Middle East land mass area. This is a geographical fact, anyone can check it by taking out a world Atlas and see for themselves. The surrounding Muslim and Arabs control Northern Africa from the western shores to the Central Asian mountains, and everything in between, covering large parts of three continents; North Africa, the Middle East and the South East Asia belt, sums up a total of 55 states represented by the organization OIC which is in charge of more than 1,3 billion Muslims spread world wide. Except the tiny micro-sized state of Israel that can hardly bee seen in this ocean of countries, with its five million Jews and one million Arab citizens. For those having trouble understanding this mind game, the protestwarriors at www.protestwarrior.com have come up with a simple way to clarify this:

Of course this isn’t the map being used when media or political representatives report from the disputed areas, claiming that the Arabs have no land, and that the “evil” Israelis are stealing “Palestinian land”. No, when this is the case, the magnifying glass closes in at least 500 times, zooming in on Judea/Samaria, and in an attempt to rename it, first they call it the “West Bank” and lately back to the good old Roman “Palestine”. However, geographic landscape history is static, and cannot be altered no matter how much one wishes to do so, unless one is willing to adopt the art of plain history forgery or claiming that natural disasters have been shifting the areas.

Imagine instead, that the small Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea was like Israel, surrounded by Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Åland and Norway, and then backed by Russia. And that the tiny island for some strange reason had survived all previous aggression wars and ongoing terror, a large part of that due to the strategically location and the advance of not being directly accessible (like the Israeli mountain walls of Judea/Samaria) and in spite of everything still managed to call itself a democracy. The very thought is mind-boggling, since all the countries in this theory are democracies, and democracies don’t initiate war against other democracies. Israel’s neighbors however, are not democracies. And when the surrounding countries haven’t been busy attacking the small entity, they have been involved in wars against each other, or engaged in civil war, or local domestic disturbances, which is no business of the West, of course.

And while on the subject, during last century, just a few examples: The Algerian civil war during the 1990’s, estimated death toll somewhere around 70 000. The Lebanese civil war, started in 1975 with an estimated death toll somewhere around 100 000. The Syrian massacre in 1982 of the city of Hama, estimated death toll somewhere around 40 000. In Jordan in 1970, Arafat attempted to overthrow the King with an estimated death toll around 10 000. The war between Iraq and Iran, estimated death toll about 1 million. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the estimated death toll around 100 000. The Iraqi killings of the Kurdish people in 1992, estimated death toll 200 000. In the Sudan since the 1950’s, the ongoing ethnical cleansing of the black population, estimated death toll up to around two millions and another four million refugees.
Each and every country in this small passage have killed, persecuted and produced more refugees in separate clashes than Israeli history combined during the last 56 years of wars of self-defense, in total. But still some claim that the democracy of Israel is the major troublemaker in the Middle East region!

Back to the mind example of Gotland. The world would then produce a “roadmap to peace” (that the surrounding hostile nations initially rejected anyway by actions of continued terror), a road map that goes on about dividing the island in a quarter, the removal of that natural defense measure, and to top it, dividing the capital with vague political promises that will certainly foster future peace…. Who in Gotland in their right mind would even consider such a crazy suggestion? Well in Israel the Israeli government has already done it. And several times too, by the way. All with the prospect of future peace in mind. But it seems, still with recent history in mind, rather that some of the Muslim-Arab leaderships and the people they represent, have rejected every one of those Israeli peace proposals. Instead they have been promising and advocating for the destruction of that very democracy, ever since it saw its first reborn light. Last century the various Arab leaderships turned down the proposal for a 23rd Arab state at least three times in a row, for the entire world to see. Israel, on the other hand, was allowed to participate in the trials and errors of creating a “Palestinian state” for the first time ever in history.

1948 – The Arabs rejected the UN partition plans, and instead choose war.
While Arabs thereafter illegally occupied the disputed areas for two decades, looting, stealing and destroying Jewish property, not a sound was heard from the Arabs about any creation of a “Palestinian state”. PLO was formed in 1964 when the disputed areas still was under Arab military control, however at the time they stated that their goal was not to create a country called Palestine, but to destroy Israel.

1967 – Israel tried to hand back, in civilized negotiations, the previous legal spoils of war as in the territory of Judea/Samaria, only to be met by the infamous “three no’s” from the Arab Summit in Khartoum: A) No to peace with Israel, B) No to negotiations with Israel, C) No to recognition of Israel (its right to exist).

2000 – The PA leader Arafat, flat out rejected the Israeli offer of such a state, including the unimaginable partition of Israel’s eternal capital Jerusalem’s eastern parts. Arafat’s answer was no counter negotiations, nothing. Except the invoked and planned Muslim Arab holy war, and the unleashing of a second terror wave that affected the entire Israeli civilian society, much to the decade old promises of Arafat’s own PLO plans from the 1974 and its “two phase plan”. So far these are factual and undisputed historic events that cannot be altered. Since it actually happened. Does it make sense to turn down one’s own stated goals, in return for a new state?

Who is Palestinian?

2006-04-06T17:28:00.000-07:00

So who is Palestinian then, and how does one even start defining such a person or such a people, and from where does the word originate?
The word derives from the Hebrew language, Pelesheth. It might be worth mentioning that the letters P and E do not exist in the Arabic alphabet. Arabs in the disputed areas therefore usually claim to be Falastin, in Arabic translation, since they have a hard time even pronouncing the words Palestinian or Palestine. There are numerous examples of Arafat making this error.

During the time of the British mandate, according to the mandatary rulers, a Palestinian could be anyone that could prove that they had been in the British controlled mandate for at least a period of two years. That meant Jews, Arabs and even the British who received passports and identification papers issued by the colonial British Empire. My own Jewish relatives in Israel had such papers, and usually laughs when they hear about “the Palestinians”. Today the expression is more used to concretize the Arab propaganda thesis according to the Dr Thomas McCall, a B.D. in Old Testament studies and a D.D. in Semitic languages and Old Testament. A Christian community even goes one step further and claims that the word can be traced back to a few passages of mistranslations from Latin into English in the first version of the King James Bible from the year 1611, something that can be verified online at the University of Virginia’s online library electronic text center, where it’s available side by side for historic comparison purposes, in both versions of the Bible; the older King James and the modern revised version. Regardless of the historical testimonies it still is an empirical fact that up-to-date there never existed a Palestinian state, and certainly not governed or ruled by either Muslims or Arabs, and the term originally stems from the Hebrew language as a name for a foreign enemy tribe who controlled the relatively small area of Gaza some 3000 years ago, and was skewed by invading Romans intent on altering the name of the Land of Israel.

In spite of this wrongly translated term in the Bible of a later geopolitical area, one can easily claim and conclude that the term Palestine today has become a trade mark, but in the Arab case more of a trademark of intrusion. And most definitely a successful one.

One of the Swedish poster politicians for the Arabs, who like to call themselves Palestinians, is Yvonne Ruwaida, who has been serving for a decade for the Green party in the Parliament. As a Palestinian, (although she in later interviews in AB emphasizes that she was born in Germany, but her “father is a Palestinian born in the desert as a Bedouin”. But a Bedouin is something else! Let’s check this out with the Merriam Webster online dictionary: “A nomadic Arab of the Arabian, Syrian, or No. African deserts”. An Arab. Well let’s check out that word “nomadic”, just to clarify this:

1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads
2 : roaming about from place to place aimlessly, frequently, or without a fixed pattern of movement

As trivia can also be mentioned that Bedouins proudly serve in the Israeli army as trackers, and that they are highly appreciated for their efforts in searching for infiltrating terrorists. Steven Plaut testifies to this in a book dedicated to these heroes, The Scout. Three years earlier Ruwaida had spent more than a quarter of a million SEK and could not even produce one receipt for the money she claimed was for “expenses” including, as the environmentally committed person she claimed to be, taxi fares that obviously produce heavy environmental pollution. Indeed a worthy ambassador to her cause. Or maybe not.

No matter how anyone tries to alter, change or “forget” recent history, Jordan still consists of 80 per cent of the former British Palestinian mandate. Arabs therefore already control 80 per cent of the former Palestinian mandate. The current Queen of Jordan, Her Majesty Rania Al-Abdullah calls herself a Palestinian. The only thing that differs in the proposed Palestinian flag compared to the Jordan flag is the star on the latter. The absolutely easiest and simplest way of ending this conflict would be to rename Jordan, back to Palestine.

Continuous calls to slice and weaken the tiny sliver of land that is Israel, can in this perspective only be viewed as a huge reward for terror in the ongoing plague of international terrorism. Which it also how it is interpreted by the terrorists, who in their minds get a receipt saying that terror works and indeed pays off. A reply to this is the enormous propaganda that Hezballah has continued with after the Israelis withdrew from Southern Lebanon in accordance with agreements made with the US Clinton administration. It was perceived then and is portrayed now as a great victory by Hezballah, which has only lead to the making of the border towards Lebanon more and more unstable, when these terrorists make life for ordinary Israelis difficult.

If any logical lessons are to be learned from this, it’s that Israel should not give away any land whatsoever in the future, and certainly to a hostile group of people whose stated goal – still – is the obliteration of Israel. Any such land handouts could be considered appeasement to terror and as rewards to the worst Jew killing organizations since Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

Palestine?

2006-04-06T17:23:00.000-07:00

Ancient Israel, as well as modern Israel, is probably one of the most well documented civilizations in history, ever. However, this didn’t stop a urgent call from being published, co-signed by no less than seven prior Swedish foreign ministers, and that means all FM’s who served between 1976 and 1994. It concretizes the stupidity or ignorance, or perhaps both, along with the arrogance of the Swedish foreign appeasement politics during the last couple of decades towards aspiring dictatorship regimes. Some of their main points:

- “Stop the building” of the [defensive] Israeli protection fence.”
Or in other words, let the mass murderers that mainly target Jewish civilians roam free in cities and on buses. Something that so far only have lead to creation of chaos and mass murdering massacres before the construction started of the fence started.

-“International guarantees” [sic!] to hinder homicide bombers seeking Paradise.”
How can anyone make such promises – who is to know for certain what terrorists are plotting in their hideouts? The logical answer is that of course they can’t. It’s an empty political phrase without meaning and without the slightest hint of credibility.

- “Israel has committed ‘extra judicial killings aimed at political leaders’.”
Israel has eliminated terrorist leaders who have preached incitement to terror and the destruction of Israel. And what was preached has lead exactly to such terror against innocent Jewish civilians, men, women and children, in attempts to exterminate the Jewish society.

- “Israel bears responsibility since they are ‘the stronger’ part”.
Yes, Israel is strong, but the logic here is flawed since the allied forces were stronger during the end of the Second World War, and indeed they weren’t the slightest bit responsible for the then weaker Nazis, or the atrocities committed by them. And also in this context, Arabs consists of approximately 280 millions outside the disputed areas, in 22 regimes backed by the international organization OIC, representing some 1,3 billion Muslims in 55 different states, where a devastating and overwhelming majority are not democracies. All in all: a perverse yet perfect image of the Swedish policy of appeasement, an image that has ruled in Swedish foreign politics for decades.

-“The establishment of a ‘viable and democratic’ Palestinian state.”
The last point can be disputed further, and already has been internationally, time after another, because on a daily basis one can read that Israel should leave “Palestinian land”, but few seem to be able to define exactly what that “Palestinian land” is supposed to be. Undisputed historical facts are, no matter how hard one tries to ignore or alter it, still as follows:

The invading Roman Empire, led by Hadrian, changed the name of the (then already a 1000 year old kingdom) land of Israel, in an attempt to obliterate all traces of the Jews, and instead renamed after the Greek word Philistine around 135 CE, later to be translated into Latin to Syriae Palaestina. In other words, foreign invaders made up a name, an invention, from the Jews’ former enemies the Philistines, a sea faring people who in turn stemmed from the Greek archipelago in the Aegean sea a thousand years earlier and of which there are no traces left, in order to mock and ridicule the Jews and obliterate Israel from history. The Philistines occupied the area around the area that is Gaza today, and was believed to be extinct. Five hundred years later Islam saw the light of day for the first time. Not only is that a distance of hundreds of kilometers between the Greek archipelago and the Arab peninsula, there is also a difference of one and a half millennia between the Muslim Arabs and the Greek Aegean invaders.

When these facts have been established the Israel critics instead often claim that one cannot possibly go so far back in history in order to make legal or moral historic claims to the land. They rather look at times in recent history when Muslims or Arabs included a majority of people, as if that would make legal claims change, which it doesn’t since such matters has nothing to do with ownership rights or legally binding contracts. And the main reason Arabs came to be in a majority was mainly due to illegal actions performed by Arabs (while Jews were the victims of European genocide), such as unlawful aggression wars – something that is suitably “forgotten”, or simply denied.

• No Arabs or Muslims ever claimed sovereignty over the land, in order to create their own nation prior to 1948.
• No independent state or kingdom had since the Romans’ invented name change ever been claimed of the geopolitical area in question.
• There has never ever been a Palestinian state, nation or kingdom – ever.
• In 1920 the only international legal document from the former UN organization in San Remo conference was published:

”The San Remo Conference decided on April 24, 1920 to assign the Mandate [for Palestine] under the League of Nations to Britain. The terms of the Mandate were also discussed with the United States which was not a member of the League. An agreed text was confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on July 24, 1922, and it came into operation in September 1923."

What did this, as the only issued legally and mutually agreed amongst UN member countries paper prior to Israel’s rebirth on the May 14, 1948, state about Jewish settlements, and what did it have to say about issues like a Jewish national home?

“Article 2
The Mandatary shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home”…

“Article 6
…shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land”…

However, the British Colonial Mandate later violated Article 5 in the same document:

“Article 5
The Mandatary shall be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of, the Government of any foreign Power.”

Britain then ceded about 80 per cent of the mandated land, and gave it away for absolutely free to the Saudi Arab tribe of the Hashemite, in order to quell threats of upcoming riots and wars against the French colonized Syria in 1923.
Jordan later was established 1946 as the Hashemite Kingdom, on those 80 per cent ceded by British mandatary rulers, of the former Palestine mandate, from the geopolitical area.

No UN documents speak of any Palestinians prior to 1948; they all speak about Arabs and Jews. Or as the Jewish self-proclaimed anti-Zionist Göran Rosenberg writes in his [my emphasis in bold] book:

“During my two and a half years in Israel I never spoke to an Arab (Palestinians wasn’t a common concept in those days)”…

If one picks up one of several books written at the time (this one by a DN reporter) one can read several statements, yes, even in Swedish, for instance about the Jewish Palestinian institutions like the Palestinian orchestra, consisting of and run by Jews:

”The assembly’s name is the Palestinian Philharmonic Orchestra. Two years ago they celebrated their tenth anniversary. Therefore they already have their own history, their own traditions… It was Bronislav Huberman who took the initiative in order to form the establishment of the Palestinian Philharmonic Orchestra… In 1936 the opening concert took place. Toscanini was the conductor. The maestro was impressed, never had he lead such a brilliant ensemble.”

Perhaps there is some truth to the statements made by the former prime minister, Golda Meir?

The foremost reason for Arab presence and settlements as Joseph Farah reports and asks himself as well as the reading audience:

…“Since 1967, the Arabs have built 261 settlements in the West Bank. We don’t hear much about those settlements. We hear instead about the number of Jewish settlements that have been created. We hear how destabilizing they are – how provocative they are. Yet, by comparison, only 144 Jewish settlements have been built since 1967 – including those surrounding Jerusalem, in the West Bank and in Gaza. Why is it that only Jewish construction is destabilizing?”…

In these areas the restoration during the last hundred years is mainly due to the Zionist movement from the beginning of the 20th century, on what was testified and witnessed by innumerous sources, as barren land, swamps and deserts until it was restored into land with durable living conditions, something which attracted hordes of immigrating Arabs who wished to partake in the welfare that was being brought in as well as the generally better living conditions the Zionists’ restoring land projects had to offer.

The second reason for this demographic shift has been the numerous and recurring illegal Arab aggression wars against Israel in the middle of the 20th century, with its consequential ethnical cleansing (and constant ongoing terror in-between) against Jews in the Arab world and the disputed areas for decades, and the third reason is the huge Arab birth rates of the native numbers from then and up to date.
Muslim Arabs often speak of themselves as being one nation, in Islamic Arabic referred to as Ummah. The Arabs did not want a Palestinian state since they never had any such claims prior to 1948, but they also rejected the very thought of a Jewish democratic nation, with terror and aggression wars as a result in several subsequent annihilation attempts.

Israel and the Arabs

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Are Muslims or Arabs in general lacking a will of their own, acting like delusional barbarians in random explosions of violence, not able to behave like normal persons in civilized society? Of course not. And one of the ultimate proofs can be found in the state of Israel, the country that leading Swedish politicians and media have accused of “state-terrorism”. However, 20% of the Israeli population, within the so-called green line, is still Israeli citizens of Arab Muslim origin, and who are equally protected by law and the Israeli government. One would logically think that any family caretaker subjected to alleged state terrorism would do his best to escape and seek better living conditions (such as the Christian Arabs have been forced to do, in what is close to ethnical cleansing sanctioned by the PA, in Bethlehem ), and especially so if surrounded by their brethren in Arab and Muslims states. Do these Israeli Arabs love all the Jews? Perhaps not. But they, as a majority, demonstrably don’t resort to violence as the first-hand choice to express any disgruntled feelings. This has been the only Arab Muslim group in the entire Middle East which so far has enjoyed basic and complete human rights, and this since the re-establishment of the state of Israel. They are able to elect their own Arab or Muslim spokespersons. It is also apparent that they have had no wish whatsoever, so far, to move and join to their less fortunate brothers and sisters in the other Middle Eastern countries. Or as stated by an Israeli Arab, Sarah El Shazly :

…”As a Palestinian, I ask the world to please stop exploiting our issue. If you want a do a good deed, find your own. To the singers romanticizing Palestinian suffering, it is not romantic. There is nothing dreamy about it. Where’s the heroism in a small child throwing rocks at a tank? Either warn the child to stay away or just shut up! How dare you do this to our children? Does our suffering give you such good video footage and high ratings?

To the average Arab citizen, stop crying crocodile tears for us. We thank you for your kind feelings, but please, don’t offer us your pity. To the Arab and Islamic governments, fix your own problems. Do not use our misery to blind your subjects to domestic problems. Are you afraid that the people will wise up, and stop hating Israel, and turn on you? You, who have condoned so much hatred, may one day pay the price. You've created monsters, and you won’t be able to handle them. Worry about creating jobs for your own poor people and educating the children, and leave us alone. In short, to all those invested in driving our children to die, please, stay away from us.”

One devoted Islamic scholar that deserves attention is the Italian based professor Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi’s previous statements as an example of Muslims leadership who speak up for mutual understanding (and he also advocated for annihilation of “the thug” Yassir Arafat!). Or Ms Nonie Darwish, raised in the Gaza strip, and her continuous work. So what other conclusions can be drawn – is the greatest major threat to the rest of the world in fact the intolerant Arab Muslim Middle Eastern dictatorships, and not Israel?

Democracy

No, not some European lip service talk about democracy, but pure, genuine and implemented democracy. Who, besides Israel, has been the strongest advisory when it comes to introducing, yes, even by force, democracy in the Middle East? Well, in the new millennium, USA, with president George W Bush. Advocating for truth and in this sense, real self-determination, whatever one has to say about his methods. And what have, and still is, the European western society been supporting? The Arab and Muslim dictatorships. Trade agreements, oil exchange, arms sales and so on. The thugs from PLO was (and still are, as this is being written) torturing, lynching, executing mafia style any inside opposition within the PA controlled areas. Just like they did in Lebanon. Just like they did in Jordan. And so they are able to continue to be the undisputed, recognized by the UN, one voice for the Arabs in this region, supported by the surrounding dictatorships. Perhaps one day their victims such as the human rights advisor Bassem Eid (under house arrest, whom Arafat was suppose to “represent” but ruled by terror), will dare to speak out openly about the dictatorship the Europeans support.

On the other hand, the professional apologists for extremist Arab Muslim barbarism might find their cause backfiring, in ways they could never dream of, and sooner than they think. When Jews speak of never again, they mean precisely that.

Some Swedish problems

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Throughout history anti-Semitism has been a sure sign of even greater and darker events in the offing. And as we have seen on several occasions, Swedish ministers have gone through great pains to explain very carefully that it’s legitimate to criticize other governments, and for some reason especially Israel and Israeli internal politics. Well then, let’s take a closer look at Sweden and its own government. J’accuse. If there was silence on the surface, there was indeed something more sinister bubbling beneath it, if one just takes the time to dive in for a closer inspection in order to see what has happened during the recent years. Here is an out of the ordinary outspoken example, and not that common, by Ulf Nilsson at Expressen that somehow managed to reach the public surface [1]

I know I sound like a grumpy old bastard, but still I repeat the question:
How did Sweden end up like this?
Anna Lindh was stabbed… Sabina was stabbed… Mohammad and Anna Lena were executed… One of the murderers from Hallandsåsen escapes and goes hunting around in full freedom… The RFV reports that 30 per cent of everyone on sick leave has psychological problems… Young men murder and cut out the eyes of a couple of tavern owners in Malmö… Whole platoons of burglars are flown in from Chile – a continent away – and they also arrive on the ferries from the Baltic… An uncontrolled rape epidemic is growing out of control in the suburbs…
What the hell is going on here? I know am not exactly alone in asking, but are there any answers? Yes, there are answers:
The disarmament of the police force, we have half as many police officers per capita compared to a normal EU country – and far too many of them sit in an office.
The mental health care system is practically shut down. Sick people are on so much medication that the medicine itself often makes them even sicker. Period.
Prisons leak as sieves. […] There’s a massive aversion among those who have the power to handle Europe’s (according to my understanding) worst immigration problems. There has to be an end to discrimination - but in both directions.

If there is one thing Sweden is proud of, it is the democratic system. However, there is one particular issue where people never got to say their piece in this very democratic system, and that is regarding the immigration politics. So far there has been no public referendum on this question. The subject is taboo. That citizens have views on immigration politics might explain why a previous populist party in the beginning of the 1990’s, New Democracy, got 6,7% of the votes, probably much because of such issues as restricted immigration being one of the core issues in their politics. Of course they were instantly deemed as “hostile to immigrants”, and therefore racist as well, by most of the other established parties. But the fact that recent integration in Sweden has failed miserably there have been daily reminders of, encrypted in the news headlines.

But in this context the good news were that there hadn’t been any reports of, for example, any Swedish Jews forming youth gangs, Jews daily harassing innocent passers-by, no Jews chanting slogans about death and destruction during public riots while property worth millions were been destroyed or looted by them, while burning democratic and sovereign countries’ flags, assaulting citizens, routinely describing minor girls as whores, no Jews moving drugs or guns in criminal groups, no Jews publicly celebrating 9/11, no Jews involved in vicious outdoor assaults and gang rapes against minors, street robberies under knife threat in search of fashion items, knifing other youths to death in order to get their expensive jackets, no Jews shooting on public beaches among children and their families, burning down a disco with the result of more than 60 youths killed because they felt they were “not being respected”, shooting (and killing) bouncers at bars and night clubs for the same reason, or as an initial rite in order to be accepted into the gangs and so on. And so on.

So one has to guess if there are some other groups behind this. But it’s hard to get a clear overview since neither the press nor the politicians seem very interested in, or happy to give any straight and clear answers about which cultural or religious background the perpetrators have, while they flock when it’s time again for some Israel-bashing. Perhaps one might call these actions and those responsible for them, at least those who are not of Swedish origin, “illegal activities” by “settlers” on Swedish soil?

As an example can be mentioned the south, with the third largest city in Sweden, Malmö, which now consists of a large community of new immigrants. The integration of some of these new immigrants has not been very successful. In the suburbs the immigrants have started to dissociate from Swedish society in general. They are not getting any work, they live on welfare and many of them barely understand basic Swedish. The only news they get, they get from their countries of origin through their satellite dishes. They are not integrated at all but live in a shadow society much like the one they originally came from. Enclaves of these parallel societies are on the up and rising. One of Europe’s leading experts on these matters is Bassam Tibi, who is himself an intellectual Sunni Muslim originally from Syria, and who holds a position as professor in Göttingen in Germany. He also warned about the development of growing Islamic fundamentalism in such environments at a very early stage.

Immigrants living in small closed societies copy the former nations from where they originally came. Of course no one should be forced to give up their cultural heritage, unless it happens to break national sovereign laws. Killing your daughter for instance, because she’s not a virgin when about to be married off (in an arranged marriage of course) to her cousin (which is common practice in several countries) is not permissible by Swedish law, even if it happens to be so (more or less) in Jordan for example. So new expressions, that were unheard of before, in Swedish society, have also been introduced together with this immigration wave, among them so called “honor killings”. After a while, as these matters were publicly debated (and still are), the Social Democratic minister of integration hired yet another investigator, professor Massoud Kamali, who later in an interview[2] stated:

“What has this to do with culture, I ask – to marry off one’s kids!?” wonders Massoud Kamali…
- One makes a huge thing out of some immigrant girls who have been subjected to so called “honor related violence”, when it’s really a much lesser percentage, only a small group. This is not a big problem, says Massoud Kamali, professor in social science”…

And on the question of his views regarding traditions that protect the men and the family’s right to control women’s’ sexuality, and if it should be supported by Swedish authorities and Swedish laws; traditions where the family honor is connected to women’s’ hymens: “’It is the worst thing I know, those sorts of questions’, he replied, ‘and your questions to me only show how deeply prejudiced you are.’”
Further on, in the same interview, another person comes to a diametrically opposite conclusion, based on personal, and numerous, experiences:

“Elisabeth Fritz has a different image of reality. She is a lawyer (among others to Pela [A Kurdish young woman who was murdered]) and she is also one of Sweden’s foremost specialists in honor related crimes.
- Every day I speak to girls who are subjected to honor related oppression or violence, she says. They can be divided into tree groups:
1. The ones that still live with their families,
2. Those that have escaped from their homes, but are too afraid to make contact with the social authorities out of fear of being forced to return, and
3. The ones that have filed police complaints and are living under protected identities.

The County Administrative Board’s national report of protected identities etc that was published on March 31, 2004, shows that honor related oppression and violence is not a small problem at all.
- Thousands of girls are victims, and the dark numbers are large, says Elisabeth Fritz. Honor oppression is a much larger problem than what the statistics show. The ones affected are mostly girls and young women, but also boys are subjected to this.

What is it that separates honor related oppression from violence and other kinds of wrongdoing?
- It is that an entire family – parents, crowds of siblings, uncles etc – threatens with violence or worse, she replies.
Often the victim is a young woman who wishes to make her own decisions regarding her own body and how she wants to live. The family then claims that she has dishonored them and that she has violated the family honor, for example by not wanting to marry the man the family has chosen for her. The family feels that neighbors and others from the same kind of honor related cultures, are judging them because of this and thus it becomes a quest to reinstate the honor. This is the crime, or oppressional motive, which makes it honor related. And there is plenty to say about this, says Elisabeth Fritz, and she adds:

It is really very wrong to claim that there does not exist any particular honor related cultures. I have a hard time to accept that a man like Massoud Kamali is making such claims; he should know what it’s all about. I myself come from a Christian Syrian culture and I have personal experiences of the problem. I wonder how many Swedish women are being physically abused, threatened, forced to marry against their will, and in extreme cases are murdered because their behavior is regarded as being the ruination of their families’ honor?
I represent many Swedish women and I have never came across a single one, concludes Elisabeth Fritz.”

The minister of integration, Mona Sahlin, later said[3] that Kamali’s statements, the same Kamali who was personally hired by her for the sole purpose to investigate and produce a public government report, only reflected the investigator’s own views. Just a couple of moths earlier, when about 70 scholars protested to his nomination, she had defended him [4] : “As a matter of fact, Kamali is a professor, and furthermore, one of the best we have in Sweden.”. Sahlin had then insinuated that there existed structural discrimination within the universities as well, since some of the protest emails had “similar undertones”. To address these issues regarding some who seem to have a difficulties integrating and adapting to the Swedish custom of not harassing their own daughters or sisters for wanting an independent life instead of forced marriage, Elisabeth Fritz had in a previous interview,[5] had a couple of suggestions as well:

…“Harsher punishments, visiting restraints, [electronical] foot-shackles, municipal arrests for convicted criminals, citizen’s exams, revocation of citizenship. – If someone wishes to live and work here I think we have to raise the standards and make demands – I can not understand why this is regarded as being so dangerous.”…

Nor does Sweden, unlike the US, expect their new citizens to swear any particular oath to prove their loyalty to the country, like the pledge of alliance sworn by the immigrants in the US who become American citizens. Breaking that oath is in the US grounds for revocation of citizenship. A Swedish citizenship is for life, and this applies even in the scandal were it was revealed that criminals had bribed a handling officer and in fact had purchased their citizenships,[6] where after the Christians Democrats wanted a change of the law so that it would be possible to revoke illegally obtained citizenships. DN reported:[7]

“As late as last summer Mona Sahlin conducted an investigation into the matter, where after it was concluded that the arguments against the demanded constitutional changes were too strong.
‘The country of Sweden should not be able to make anyone stateless’, was one of them. In other respects it is not desirable to create a situation where citizenship through birth is worth more than the citizenship obtainable during one’s lifetime. Further added are a number of family oriented legal problems.”

There is an old Swedish traditional saying equivalent to the English “When in Rome, do as the Romans”– but this doesn’t seem not to be expected of some of the individuals now belonging to the fastest growing, and second largest, religion in Sweden. Instead the opposite is applied, and Swedes are expected to accept and adapt to the traditions of new (and old) immigrants. If someone moves from one country to another, does one’s values and traditions, including cultural heritage, suddenly magically disappear as soon as one passes the border to the new country? Probably not. For decades there have existed a strong propaganda apparatus, and particularly so in the Arab Muslim world, where government ruled, structured pure anti-Semitism or plain simple Jew-hate exists. If some families originating from such environments are able to gather and together plot to kill (and then also do so) their own daughters and sisters, for “violating the family honor” – just imagine what opinions such families might have for people they perceive to be their mortal enemies.

A breakdown in the system has been on display in the Swedish school system by some of the second-generation immigrants. Public news reports sometimes tell about an alarming transformation[8] of the regular schools. In the closed private Arab Muslim schools, it’s reported to be even worse. An infrastructure is emerging with beatings and torture mixed with hardcore religious instruction from hard-line teachers and headmasters. This was looked into with a wallraffing team of journalists with hidden cameras, and reported on the TV show [9] “Dokument Inifrån” (Document from the Inside) with a follow up[10] a year later.

Just a couple of reminders of what almost otherwise would have been impossible to print just a year earlier due to the “political correctness” syndrome suffered by both the media and the politicians in charge. DN wrote [11] about a quarrel between some kids in a playground which ended with the parents getting involved in a fight and subsequently a father of eleven being murdered. The ethnicity of the involved persons was at the time carefully omitted; a sure sign that it wasn’t ethnical Swedes (which instantly would have been reported otherwise), when the news media presented this case, but both the area and circumstances indicated that the persons involved were not native Swedes.

…”The murder of the 52 year old was the latest in a string of serious violent crimes that has taken place in Malmö.
On Thursday the trial will begin against the man who held his girlfriend hostage for four hours before stabbing her to death, with a dagger through the heart. He is also prosecuted for having robbed two younger women at knifepoint.
On Thursday a large manifestation is planned in the suburb Rosengård against violence and vandalization. This since a 29-year-old man was stabbed to death almost two weeks ago, just because he had told some youngsters not to sneak in at the Rosengård bath to swim. Only a day before almost all 600 windows in the Rosengård School had been smashed.
Last weekend a man was shot to death at the nightclub Heartbreak. Several other serious cases of assaults with knives have occurred lately where the victims have survived. Furthermore, a wave of rapes and rape attempts has swept over Malmö.”

Regarding the groups behind the fight mentioned initially, where the 52-year-old father of eleven was slain, DN reported much later that it was in fact hundreds of Palestinians and Iraqis that had clashed. It all started with two children throwing apples at each other in the playground.[12] The phenomenon where parts of Europe seem to become a Muslim Eurabia made the news even in the dailies in the USA.[13]

…“There is no better answer than a look at Sweden today, a country slightly smaller than California with a population of some 9 million. Sweden has the second-largest percentage Muslim population in Western Europe. France has the highest Muslim population percentage — 7 per cent .
Sweden today is a major center of Europe’s anti-Semitism and especially the city of Malmo, commercial center of southern Sweden with 265 000 residents. An estimated 18 000 Jews live in all Sweden, 1 200 in Malmo. And into Malmo’s Islamist enclave the police, it is reported, rarely dare enter.
Anders Carlberg, president of the Jewish community of Goteborg, told an interviewer: “The fear of being attacked is the primary concern of Jews in Sweden today.” That fear was well grounded. On the day after the interview with Mr. Carlberg, his son and three of the son’s friends were attacked in a Malmo restaurant by a gang of Muslim youths, but were rescued by police without injury.“…

Another article was first printed in the UK[14] but was later translated into Swedish, and published, but with an added head summary in the Swedish version[15]:

“Fanatics stain Islam

The sick religious interpretation of Islam in the form of Terror has become Islam’s trademark. The scholar’s Muslim sheiks that send young Muslims to their death and encourages terror deeds must accept responsibility. The way to healing for Islamic societies is self-recognition and confession, writes Abdel Rahman–al Rashed, columnist and previous Chief Editor at the Arabic paper al-Sharq al-Awsat.”…

Another Swedish paper [16] had yet another shocking chronicle regarding specifics on the general immigration and integration problems.

…“What the problem really is, is rather that the debate is avoided – the question of Sweden’s fate – is pushed aside and strangled before it even begins, and if there really is something promising the debate will be warped and malignant, it's the mass medial and political denial. If one chooses to put the lid on, the pot will boil over with time. It’s perhaps a naïve and stupid kindness or disillusion that has made the ones responsible for the country not to speak up in these matters, or maybe even cowardice. Regardless of either, the historical judgment will be harsh towards the Swedish establishment, if one soon doesn't dare to speak up with regards to the process that so radically has changed our country.

Yet even if there is a lack of a real debate, the daily papers are filled with articles that address the downside of mass immigration. No one with even half open eyes can deny that something has gone very wrong. With a number of unpleasant phenomena such as epidemical rapes where the perpetrators often originates from the southern hemisphere and the victims usually are Swedes; the increasing knife violence, threats, rock throwing and shootings against ambulances, buses and subways; honor related violence and hymen reconstruction; violence towards personnel in authorities and hospitals; young men with immigrant background mugging ethnical Swedes to get cell phones, MP3 players, fashion clothing and mopeds; battered referees and increased violence in the minor soccer leagues involving some ethnical teams; welfare cheating; growing racism against Swedes – with insulting chanting like “Swedish whores” as a common recurring events on a daily basis. The list sadly continues and can be made very long.”…

The last example would have been absolutely impossible to publish in Sweden, and any author of such a text would instantly have been branded a racist, if it hadn’t been for the fact that on this very rare occasion, the author happened to be the previous chairman of the Young Muslim Council, who has Pakistani background.
And of course many immigrants, predominately from the large labor immigration in the 1970’s, started no notice something was going very wrong in their living environments, and sometimes they even managed to protest against what was happening, and get their message published through the media’s fine-meshed net of political correctness. This also because the current climate of the Swedish society also cast dark shadows over their own groups, even if they had nothing what so ever to do with the ongoing problems, while working hard towards integration and their new conditions in Swedish society. Of course they would want to protest.

Immigration issues at large had so far been the political parties’ “sacred cow”, an issue that had been impossible to question, at least when it concerns Sweden. But on the topic of Israel’s immigration politics on the other hand, then it seems to be just fine for anyone of the Swedish politicians not to only criticize, but also to flat out curse and condemn. For instance, the overall economical numbers for the immigrants in Sweden have been produced by more or less guesswork, since no straight official replies regarding the overall costs have been available. In one article[17] the figure 40 to 50 SEK billions (2-3% of the GNP) was mentioned by an economics professor, who claimed:

“For immigrants from Africa or Arab speaking countries the numbers are totally different. Here the degree of employment is below 50 per cent for men and much less for women. Here it is aid, not work, that applies.”

And while on the subject of economy in Sweden, one can, or rather has to, pick up a copy of the Washington Times[18] and read a piece written by a senior at the Discovery Institute. Here they are quoting a Swedish economist, in order to find out what has been going on during the socialist rule for decades.

“The extent of the failure of the Swedish model is both shocking and little known. For example, no new net jobs have been produced in the Swedish private sector since 1950. (By contrast, the U.S. created more than 60 million new private-sector jobs during the same period, from 52 million in 1950 to about 115 million in 2002.) "None of the top 50 companies on the Stockholm stock exchange has been started since 1970."
[…]
In addition, "well over 1 million people out of a work force of around four million did not work in 2003 but lived on various kinds of public welfare programs, such as, pre-pension schemes, unemployment benefits, sick-leave programs, etc." Finally, "a majority of the adult population is either employed by the state or clients of the state in a sense that they have a majority of the income coming from public subsidies."

Sweden certainly has had a forgiving attitude towards “stateless Palestinians”. It doesn’t take that much brain effort to understand that the best chances for an Arab asylum seeker or immigrant has, is to claim being a “stateless Palestinian”, when arriving at the Swedish border control. And speaking of which, about 90% of all refugees and asylum seekers were “missing” (i.e. had thrown away) their ID cards or passports, in order for them not to be deported back to wherever they came from. The Social Democratic party has an immigration law that permits relatives (family ties reason) to immigrate and apply for permanent residential stay (PUT) in Sweden. It resembles a reversed pyramid game somewhat; if one gets asylum then his or her relatives can apply by relationship of family, for instance all children of course, the parents but also other “close” relatives,[19] such as siblings who in turn can do the same with their children, parents and other relatives. These aliens do not have to be asylum seekers, nor claim employment (even if that probably is every person’s wish), but will instantly receive benefits from the Swedish welfare system, without any counter demands at all more or less (they don’t even have to learn Swedish), which includes basic livings standard, healthcare, and pensions for life, even if they don’t work a single day. Even if they move back to where they came from, they have been set for life with an economic bonus from Sweden. Like previous years, in 2003 that specific part of immigration by relatives was the single absolutely largest group of immigrants to Sweden; more than 50 per cent of the total number.[20] At a government commission report the Green party spokesperson rejected any suggestions to changes for future regulations of the “close family ties” policy.[21] It wouldn’t be too strange to think that some of those people affected by these laws would vote for their benefactors in the elections, at least in the beginning. One can only wonder what the more than one thousand Iraqis in the Nordic region, a majority of them in Sweden, first stated reasons were for coming to Sweden, on the April 1, 2003 when they wished to return to Iraq in order to fight for the Iraqi dictatorship regime, against the coalition of democracies, lead by the US.[22] Of course everyone are not granted asylum.[23] Just ask the Jewish mother of two girls, Marina Shepeleva, who unfortunately when this was written cannot answer since she is deeply traumatized, has lost 20 kilos and has been tube-fed since the decision was made that she is to be deported. Her last word before she fell into a coma was that she rather die than go back to the anti-Semitic former Russian Uzbekistan, where the authorities tortured her husband for four days in custody in order to make him revoke his police complaints about his known attackers, and where her oldest daughter was sexually harassed at school by the headmaster, and where assailants snatched and stripped the skin off their dogs and left them on their porch, and this after one of several armed robberies in their home as well as assaults and beatings at gunpoint which finally ended with their house being burned to the ground. And what had been testified to, as well, regarding the asylum wave:[24]

…“I have signed decisions in perhaps 1500 asylum seeking cases. Of these approximately 25-30 have been authentic refugees (added are persons with protection needs that fall outside the refugee status). To give such a person residence permit is easy. A swift stroke and one feels satisfied to have been able to give protection according to laws and regulations to the refugee.
This is the reality we live in. It does not matter that you, on your high moral ground, think you know better who the person is that seeks asylum in Sweden and what the circumstances are when they are being sent back home. The refugee rights of today are hollow, and this is because the system is used and abused to the breaking point by persons whose foremost reason is not to get protection from persecution. Don’t believe for a second that I lie sleepless over decisions that a person who does not have protection needs but are in Sweden for economical or social reasons, will have to return to their homeland, possible to a more poor existence.”…

All this put together might, unless one lives happily in blissful denial, sound like a horrible recipe for future disaster as well as an upcoming catastrophe. Then add to it the constant alarms of the increasing mass employment,[25] even among highly educated and experienced “native” Swedes, and every fifth company signaling that they plan to leave[26] Sweden in the globalization competition. A similar down spiral climate in Europe last time was in Germany where disgruntled and powerless unemployed citizens were easy marks for populist politicians, which then subsequently resulted in a world war. And in this harder climate the socialist governing minister of aid Carin Jämtin proclaims, while promising to give, (note: give – not lend) away another almost 500 million SEK this year, from the Swedish taxpayers – to the newly invented acronym OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories), as she stated “adopted by the government last week” instead of the PA. Who the Swedish government counterparts are in reality, except the acronym OPT to which they will hand over hundred of millions, is not revealed, and is hard to find out, expect for one search hit of the term “occupied Palestinian territories” in the government database, in (during that month) one speech[27] from the same minister. The OPT are not mentioned in the speech, however complaints against Israel are, now along with the defense that the Swedish Social Democrats are not at all anti-Semitic, but only use their right to criticize PM Sharon in particular as head of the Jewish state, and Palestinians “have the right” (sic!) to a state, instead of a fence that hinder their movements. So despite the previous years’ scandal findings of misused aid, the Swedish future way is to “view aid as foreign politics”.[28] She also promises, in an almost carbon copy of what her Social Democratic colleague Schori promised eight years previously before the Swedish Parliament, but this time it sounds like this:

“We can handle it through our firms of accountants. One can track the Swedish aid krona from the account in Stockholm, to the account in for example Nablus, and in follow-ups and accountings we can see what it has been used for”.

No wonder that Jewish veterans from pre-Germany post Second World War, and later Holocaust survivors these times feel a bit uneasy in this hardened climate, testifying[29] for the magazine Världen Idag (the World Today):

…“The anti-Semitism is the same as always, according to Ringart, but it has a new channel now. 70 years ago it was spread by Nazis, today it is spread by Islam. The Islamization of Europe has meant that the hate against the Jews and old prejudices has once again been awakened. The mass media is, according to Ringart, a large propaganda machinery that daily “drums out prejudices”.
- They have been colored by the lies about Israelis, lies that are spread by Muslims. It colors the reporting in connection with the complex situation in the Middle East. Today, once again, we feel how they start to dehumanize us Jews. But that is a dangerous road that will have unpleasant consequences.
– We must combat this with force. Never again!”

Perhaps you who read this do not appreciate the verbal picture I have been drawing so far (like myself), by quoting some news events? While speaking of pictures, does anyone remember the earlier Swedish museum scandal with the Dror Feiler installation in the beginning of 2004? Almost on the day a year after, another one[30] (or two) incidents took place. However, it did not get the same kind of attention in the main international news. No screaming global headlines and campaigning condemnations. A Swedish speaking Muslim Internet discussion forum had observed that a painting, made by a female Muslim artist (who originally comes from Algeria), had the inscription “Allah” on it, together with an illustration of a couple making love. (Some Muslims in Jerusalem later desecrated [31] Judaism’s most holy site, the eastern wall on the Temple Mount, in much the same way but this time by carving it into the stone foundation, several feet up for better visibility – the exact same word.) However, this particular exhibition Scène d’Amour was not about genocide, but combating the spreading of Aids, and the artistic motive used was a couple making love. But the disgruntled Muslims started a discussion called “A Museum that wants to hurt Muslims. Do something!!!” In the discussion that ensued there were plenty of badly camouflaged threats and instructional urgings, along with contact information, on this particular forum to remind the museum staff that they “would be wise to learn of what happened in the Netherlands” as a clear reference to the murder of Theo Van Gogh, and also sent complaints letters. And it worked. The museum then, due to (a later official explanation) stated:[32]

“We thought that the installation removed the focus from what had been our ambition with the exhibition; to portray HIV and Aids. Instead we got a discussion about artistic and religious freedom, which wasn’t what we were after. Had we had more time we should have anchored it among those it concerns and then we probably wouldn’t have had the painting on display at all in the first place. We have many other art pieces here which stirs up peoples’ feelings but in this case we thought it was unnecessary to step on anyone’s toes.”

A month later the story was repeated [33] this time when some Muslims found another painting that apparently didn’t go along with their religious beliefs. Earlier, when more than 10 000 global protest letters had been sent by insulted Jews from all over the world in connection with the Dror Feiler installation, the museum had vigorously spoken in a high moral and condescending tone about the “constitutional right to artistic freedom” and “freedom of expression” as well as “free speech”. It was then apparently not “unnecessary to step on anyone’s toes”. However, when a handful of Muslims feel insulted, the artwork in question was immediately removed.
So what did the Swedish Social Democratic government do to foresee and address these growing tensions and immigrant related issues? Anything? Something? Nothing? To find out, and to weed out any unwanted individual elements it was claimed in an article[34] that probably about more than one thousand war criminals had found refuge in Sweden, and one (1) police officer was set to conduct the investigation. Perhaps the governing Social Democrats now too could have hired experts and conducted other investigations perhaps? No? Well, it seemed that the Sweden Democratic party had received a copy of a study that went on for two years, from 1998 to 2000, called the Argus report,[35] a 50 page report which had been looking at some 1500 cases, of “foreign citizens” and if there were any “incorrect ways” that some had obtained “residence permits and aid”. The report somehow seemed to have been hidden away somewhere, or anyway not published, with the obvious intention of it never reaching the general public. The conclusions in the report were that there were plenty of severe and serious problems.

So, in Sweden, this tolerant and civilized country, some Swedish born Jews who had contributed to society, have felt compelled to leave as a result of the previous daily harassments and general unsafety, and have already moved (or perhaps a better word would be “fled”) to Israel. This as a direct result of living in a country where they routinely could be lumped together by the Swedish press as being “illegal settlers” in stories regarding Israel’s immigration politics, and because of some of the Swedish immigrants harassing them believing they are to blame for the situation in the Middle East, and this in the country of Sweden, where they were born.

In Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden, the most common name among newborns at the beginning of the millennium was Mohammad[36]. And some of the immigrants would of course get involved in local politics; this should be a good cause for anyone who has an interest in their living environments. For instance, so did [37] (to Mona Sahlin's obvious delight) the Social Democrat Mariam Osman Sherifay, who started the first Muslim Women’s Club within the Social Democratic party. She is of Egyptian background and later she became the first person to ever speak in Parliament wearing the Muslim headscarf, hijab. A debate erupted [38] among some of the members of the Liberal party, many of them also with foreign backgrounds, who didn’t agree that a religious scarf should be a part of dress for youngsters below 15 years of age in schools, since “believing Muslims advocate veils because the women shouldn’t arouse the man – but children are not sexual objects”. After this Sherifay stated that [39] “they have chosen it voluntarily, if it should be forbidden they would go to special religious schools”. Later [40] Sherifay had some other political issues, namely “The EU and Sweden have not applied enough pressure” as she then imposed future trade sanctions against Israel.
The journalist and outspoken former Social Democrat, Göran Skytte, seemed apparently stunned however, when flicking through the channels on the TV and ending up watching the show Agenda,[41] where he saw and listened to the Social Democratic spokesperson for female rights, a Kurdish Muslim. Her appearance apparently made him compelled to write a chronicle.[42]

“Issuing a warning against Nalin Pekgul’s signals

Nalin Pekgul is a heavy force of power within the Social Democrats: she is the Chairman of the Women’s association. She claims to be a “believing Muslim” and often she appears as a kind of spokesperson for what is supposed to be “regular Muslims” in Sweden, whereby it is understood that these Muslims aren’t militant Islamists.
On Sunday she participated in Lars Adaktusson’s program Agenda (TV2). In the program the Swedish Security Police (SÄPO) tells that more and more youngsters are joining extreme Islamic networks in Sweden. Pekgul is asked: How do you interpret this? She replies: “I’m not surprised. For a long time many, let’s call them regular Muslims, have known that these extreme groups are getting more powerful”. Well, what do you know. A highly ranked person in Swedish society tells – as is self-evident – that they since “a long time” have known that extreme Islamic groups are getting more powerful within the Swedish Muslim society. Has she ever told this to the police? Has she written any debate articles, authored any urgent calls and protests? Not as far as I can see. Pekgul aimed in Agenda criticism towards the Swedish media. She claimed that the media don’t make any difference between “ordinary” Muslims (that are nice and peaceful) and the “fanatics”. And then she makes the following comparison:
”We would never say that Livets Ord should represent Christianity. But why should Hezballah, the [Muslim] Brotherhood or Hamas represent the Muslims? This is the real problem.”
Sorry, excuse me. Livets Ord is a peaceful and pious Christian sect that works quietly from its base in Uppsala. It is of course a crude insult showing a total lack of proportions, when Pekgul compares the Christian Livets Ord with some of the most bloodstained and on murder intent Islamic terrorist organizations in the world.
In Agenda it was further revealed that a man had held a sermon in the mosque at Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm where he had cheered and glorified the Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin as “martyr”. Pekgul comments: “To me as a Muslim it is no great difference between Sharon and Yassin. Either one is no worse than the other, I repudiate from both”.
In response to this the TV host Lars Adaktusson calmly points out the elementary difference. ”However, one of them is elected by the people in democratic elections, which the other one isn’t.”
Pekgul then became a media star, and in the week that followed she became the main subject in the LO paper [the Swedish union branch organizers with 16 unions] ALLA. She was presented there with the following preamble:
”As a child in Kurdistan she had only one dream. To avenge herself on the enemy, that was the Turks, and to get even. To get even in this case meant to commit murder. Nalin Pekgul remembers exactly the day when she realized she wouldn’t be able to take the life of another human being. Not even a Turk. ”I gave up the plans of becoming a suicide bomber but it wasn’t a easy decision”.
The hard decision for her to not become a bomb murderess –“not even against a Turk” she took on 7 May 1987. This was seven years before she became a MP at the Parliament for the Social Democrats.
One might possibly have some small point of view regarding the “signals” that Pekgul sends out, by her telling of her plans of becoming a suicide bomb murderer now. For example, what is the impact on the groups that she herself spoke of in the beginning of the show; the youths that join extreme Islamic groups in the Swedish suburbs?
In the end, on March 5, Nalin Pekgul participated in an urgent call in SvD Brännpunkt [Burning Point - opinion]. The headline read: Churches should grant permission for homosexuals to marry. As a Christian I am thankful for the commitment to our Church. And we look with great interest towards when Pekgul as a Muslim will publish urgent calls with the following headline: ”Imams should grant permission for homosexuals to marry in the mosques.”

So, one of the top spokespersons for the Swedish Social Democratic party, a perfect example of a successful recently immigrated Muslim who made it to the top layer of the governing party, and who previously also had dreams of becoming a homicidal bomb mass murderess, who at this point now admits that there is a large possibility for breeding grounds of Islamofascist terrorists in Sweden. And this view was concurred by the Swedish Security Police spokesperson Margareta Linderoth in the same program. Another easily drawn conclusion could, for example, very well be if sometime in the near future some of the immigrants in the segregated areas (in Sweden popularly named “million projects”) in Malmö (for instance) feel “subjected” and “oppressed” by the Swedish national sovereign laws, and feel that they should show more consideration to their cultural heritage, traditions and status. If they happen to violate Swedish national laws, such as arranged marriages between minors, then perhaps they can get more involved in politics (as already seen by the Middle Eastern flavored last names in the youth movements) and vote for “self-determination” as some of the Swedish establishment seems to be so keen on, at least regarding the Arabs in the disputed areas in Israel? Perhaps they soon could get a majority vote too, then invoke the Muslim Sharia laws and rename the municipality of Malmö “Palestine II”? And if the “native” Swedes oppose such a development, and these minorities turn to violence instead of pushing for their cause, with the barbaric means of gruesome terrorism, and blown up buses in the streets? Or perhaps even worse, if such laws and bills are passed, how will the “native” Swedes react? Content with passive acceptance – or with full-blown outrage?

So, like the Swedish politicians have already carefully explained on several occasions, one should criticize Israeli politics, and advise that the various lefties’ political fractions have noticed this, since they had ABF courses on Zionism, the highly political wing of Judaism (even thought it’s obvious they don’t understand the meaning of the word) – and from there it wasn’t long before many of them proudly called themselves “anti-Zionists”. Well then, what goes around comes around; political Islam should not be excused and closed to scrutinization in the form of investigation and not permit criticism, unless there is some kind of double standard at work. It seems the political left and its radicals have constantly missed the opportunity to their otherwise usual modus operandi of pointing their fingers and complaining loudly. Of course, no one should have any issues with regular Muslims devoted to peaceful co-existence. The lowest and easiest form to set the stage for conflicts is when there is a structural division into us and them groupings. However, and let me be very clear on this, if there is a fundamentalist shadow paralleling the society infrastructural on the rise in enclaves, where instead some of such extremist individuals form groups showing or displaying sectarian behavior, while blindly teaching in sermons to their offspring about an ancient moon god with interpretations similar to those as when the devil reads the Bible, when instead of rejecting any instructions to violence such as in passages like Surah 9:5 “slay the pagans” in the Koran, then division has already been made. I have further somehow failed to understand the reason (but perhaps some of the Swedish experts on Islam could explain this next time they go public), why I should accept their teachings that says that I am to be regarded as lower life form, or as some of the fundamentalists usually describes it “descendants of pigs and monkeys”, and that I am marked for annihilation in a totalitarian manner.

In Sweden the Socialist Democratic party has been in power for the majority of the last 80 years, often in coalition with other parties such as the Left party. And it has been like this only with a few exceptions, the last time at the beginning of the 1990’s. A known author on the theme Eurabia said in an interview [43] promoting her book Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis:

“FP: First things first, can you explain the term "Eurabia" to our readers?

Bat Ye’or: Eurabia represents a geo-political reality envisaged in 1973 through a system of informal alliances between, on the one hand, the nine countries of the European Community (EC) which, enlarged, became the European Union (EU) in 1992 and on the other hand, the Mediterranean Arab countries.
The field of Euro-Arab collaboration covered every domain: from economy and policy to immigration. In foreign policy, it backed anti-Americanism, anti-Zionism and Israel's delegitimization; the promotion of the PLO and Arafat; a Euro-Arab associative diplomacy in international forums; and NGO collaboration. In domestic policy, the EAD established a close co-operation between the Arab and European media, television, radio, journalists, publishing houses, academia, cultural centers, school textbooks, student and youth associations, tourism. Church interfaith dialogues were determinant in the development of this policy. Eurabia is therefore this strong Euro-Arab network of associations – a comprehensive symbiosis with cooperation and partnership on policy, economy, demography and culture.

Eurabia is the future of Europe.”

Anyone distrusting what was just presented might want to take a closer look and just study the career of the Swedish politician Per Gahrton and his political sermons. He made it to the EU Parliament after several years as a representative (he founded the party) for the environmentalist Green party, and later became the chairman of the Swedish Palestine Groups. Gahrton is the author of many chronicles, like when he read Sharon’s self-explanatory biography, which he refers to [44] as “Sharon’s Mein Kampf”, and his verdict was that it “sympathizes openly with racist Jewish terrorists”.
Ahlmark devoted an entire chapter to Gahrton, where this environmentalist is described as an “extremist” who roams freely within the Swedish political public arenas, without any restrictions what so ever, after having debating with him for 30 years, during which time when Gahrton was advocating for Radio Islam as a recurring guest in the 1980’s. As chairman of the Palestine Groups he seems to be very interested in the Israeli prime minister and the subject of anti-Semitism, among other things.[45] This regarding if those who want to exterminate all Jews in Israel could possibly be called anti-Semites; ”if they exist”(sic!) according to the alternative world Gahrton lives in. Perhaps he hasn’t read the genocidal charters of the Islamic Arab terrorist groups like Hamas, and perhaps he’s not the wiser after thousands of attacks and atrocities primarily aimed at Jewish civilians, or the weekly sermons in the mosques throughout the entire Middle East? Instead of the usual Holocaust denial, in politics it seems nowadays to be about terrorist denial. With a blatant lie as a perfect example of reversal of guilt, he asks: “What then shall we call those who exterminate and expel Palestinians?”

This is, as a matter of fact, a conclusive statement of actual ongoing “extermination” of Arabs. However, the Arabs in the disputed areas have during their “extermination” quadrupled their numbers from hundreds of thousands into several millions, during the last century. And this while the Jews represents the only ethnical group still diminished from last century’s butchery. He then goes on and shamelessly states, against all recent and previous publicized reports and testimonies:

“Well, each and everyone who knows anything about the reality also knows that Jewish anti-Semitism is only a small rivulet compared to the anti-Arabic anti-Semitic storm flood… In Sweden Jews are neither threatened nor discriminated against.”

With this statement he has tried not only to kidnap and hijack the word “anti-Semitism” itself, in order to use it for his own perverted and obvious distortions of historical facts, but he also manages to ridicule terrified Swedish Jewish youngsters and their families with grandparents of which some are holocaust survivors. Some Swedish citizens of Jewish origin have had their lives shattered and destroyed by Gahrton and his protégées in the new millennium. The word anti-Semitism was specifically invented 1879 by the agitator Wilhelm Marr, and since then it has always been intended only to describe hatred directed toward Jews, and Jews only. Finally, Gahrton “concludes”:

“And as long as he [the Swedish prime minister] chooses to limit his criticism to the anti-Jewish variety – as long as he isn’t capable of understanding that Israel is an occupying country with illegal nuclear arms, which is permeated by anti-Arab anti-Semitism and therefore, on good grounds, by most Europeans perceived to be the primary threat against world peace, his commitment will be perceived as being partial and narrow-minded – and anti-Arab”.

This is what it has come to. This is apparently the view of an official politician and EU parliamentarian representing Sweden, and this is what he has to say when the Swedish prime minister honors the victims of the previous European genocide. And he is thus serving as a role model to youngsters who giggle during school lectures on the Holocaust, openly wishing that Hitler would have “had time to finish the job”, and then roam the streets screaming for death and destruction of the Jews and the Jewish state. Some more from the Bat Ye’or interview:

“FP: But what does the public in Europe think about their Eurabian future? Are they aware of it? Do they go along with it?

Bat Ye’or: The public ignores this strategy, its details and functioning, but there is a strong awareness, anxiety and discontent over the current situation and particularly the anti-Semitic trends. This Eurabian policy, expressed in obscure wording, is conducted at the top political level and co-coordinated over the whole EU, spreading an anti-American and anti-Semitic Euro-Arab sub-culture in every social, media and cultural sector. Oriana Fallaci has given voice to this general opposition. But there are also many others. They are boycotted, sometimes fired from their jobs, victims of a type of totalitarian ‘correctness’ imposed mainly by the academic, media and political sectors.”

Other simple mathematics could show less happy futuristic possibilities and continued reports[46] of segregation.

If Sweden has gone from less than 500 Muslims to more than 400 000 in a couple of decades, and if just less than one per cent of segregated Muslims might being radicalized into the more fundamentalist militant views, there is a potential of it being more than 4000 hardcore Islamic fundamentalists living on Swedish soil. By such comparisons it only took 20 determined terrorist hijackers to temporarily crush the world economy, when turning civilian airliners into flying missiles crashing into the World Trade Center, and in the process killing some 3000 innocent civilians from more than 50 nations. And with such catastrophes in mind as an example, Sweden has nuclear plants situated close to the Danish main capital of Copenhagen.

If this continues, with the same native birth rate as in the Middle East, the numbers of Arab and Muslim immigrants will probably be at least about 2 millions within 15 to 20 years in Sweden alone. A new expression for this development can easily be termed weapons of mass population in demographic warfare, if the uncontrolled development of non-integration that we see today is allowed to continue. The values of medieval traditions stand against basic human rights and the dreadful ideas of inhuman Sharia laws are to be invoked in the democracy’s western norms of individual freedom and expression, while such anti-democratic and totalitarian views are being supported by rogue regimes, such as the Wahabi part of Saudi Arabia, petrol money is being invested yearly with billions of dollars into infrastructural assets on foreign soil.

Sweden’s Social Democratic party had, after the fall of the Berlin wall and collapse of the Soviet Union, continuously made political decisions of heavy cut-downs on its own defense forces in the following decades, which also had been enforced, and what is left to uphold the national security today is the police, and that isn’t much to brag about either. This has been another issue; that the police force is both understaffed and underpaid but very much overworked, and is a group that the media seem to love to bash as well, if the police should just happen to make any mistakes whatsoever during their daily work. At this time, for the total population of Sweden the Swedish police force consists of approximately some 17 000 police officers to uphold the law. A large number of those will retire in a near future For the immigrant cause, the Social Democratic party has also demanded, and allocated fundings, for special campaigns aimed at the recruitment of immigrants to the police force, in some cases preferably over native Swedes. Another tool that is usually needed in armed conflicts is of course arms. Now and then there are news reports of smuggling hard military handheld automatic guns to Sweden, since the EU community opened the borders. If one instead takes a look at the already legal guns in place on Swedish soil, another image is painted.[47]

Scandinavian citizens are some of the most heavily armed in Western Europe, according to a new study. Finland has the highest rate of gun ownership with 39 guns per 100 citizens; Norway is ranked second with 36 guns per 100; Sweden is fourth with 24 guns per 100 and Denmark is fifth with 18 guns per 100.

For comparison, the average gun ownership rate in the 15 member states of the EU is 17.4 guns per 100 people.

Then we have the Swedish Home front (Hemvärnet), equivalent to the US national guard, where the volunteering citizens have access to a couple of millions (where some are even stored in citizen’s homes) fully automatic military machine guns, since Sweden’s military stance always has been to invoke guerilla warfare tactics on its own soil, in the event of a foreign aggression. Or, as put by a colonel and chief at a meeting in the southern district, to his audience [48]: “You are an important part in the national crisis management, when it might be about armed battle during peace times”. This apparently after the Swedish Emergency Management Agency (KBM) was preparing for a new draft[49] of a crisis emergency plan. In this plan one could also read:

2.5.1 A borderless, changeable and interconnected world
Development of threats and risks are closely connected to the society's development at large. That goes for time as well as space. States, terrorists, organized crime and separate actors use those means available in society. The consequences of premeditated attacks are settled by the structure of the society and its power of resistance.
Individuals that for different reasons are prepared to commit terror attacks often act more or less loosely, non-hierarchy networks of terrorists that have long-term goals use unconventional methods and are prepared to use weapons of mass destruction in order to cause extensive damage to the population or society.

This could all of course be regarded as a grand conspiratorial theory, but the only sure answer is, as usual, to wait and se what the future will bring forth. Then again, a Danish book written by an immigrant of Lebanese origin and married to a Dane, described the predicted steps very well – and it was written already in 1987 [50] about what is now taking place in Sweden. The former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu also warned of these developments, in his book “A Durable Peace”,[51] about the Arab or Islamic propaganda excuse of a minority’s rights to create their own enclaves within other sovereign countries. Anyone who firmly claims that such a development certainly cannot happen in Sweden might be suffering from European amnesia – Europeans should know this very well, since there is a recent track record of cases of what might happen at worst, when among other things, the demographics of ethnical origins with different cultural, religious and political ideas rapidly shift, an example being the horrendous civil war in former Yugoslavia.

The Croatian leader, praised by some western leaders as a “moderate”, Franjo Tudjman’s own book [52] from 1989 gave some clues to his communist thinking and Holocaust denial together with his fascistic intentions. On the other hand, the Muslim Bosnian leader at the same time, Alija Izetbegovic, had written a book earlier [53] where excerpts are found that easily can be interpreted as radical Islamic fascistic fundamentalism. At least that’s why he was prior the war sentenced to jail for printing those jihad instructions on nation destruction of Yugoslavia. The observing, US based, PhD in biological and sociocultural anthropology professor, Gil-White, a specialist in regional ethnical conflicts, devoted much time to analyzing the historical events as deputy editor at The Emperors New Clothes,[54] a web site devoted to finding the facts regarding both the current situation in Israel and in former Yugoslavia.

No one can predict the future for certain, but one should at least be able learn from past history. On a final note, the Swedish Muslim imam and spokesperson for the Swedish Muslims on the whole, and often portrayed as a moderate, chairman of the Swedish Muslim Council, Abdal Haqq Kielan, emerged in yet another one of his many interviews,[55] however, this time the story was portrayed somewhat differently from the previous humble ones, as he now stated among other things: “I do not understand Sweden and its laws.” This coming from the native born Swede that he actually is, and who previously went by the name Leif Eriksson, before he converted to Islam. He also stated in the same interview “It’s doubtful that women should be allowed a social life outside the walls of the home”.

Footnotes & references:
[1] Ulf Nilsson, What the hell is going on in Sweden? Expressen (October 24, 2004)
[2] Marie Eriksson, There isn’t any particular honor culture, The umbrella project (August 9, 2004)
[3] Marie Eriksson, It is Massoud who should be criticized for his opinions, The umbrella project (September 20, 2004)
[4] Ewa Stenberg, Sahlin has a new view on integration, DN (May 31, 2004)
[5] Katarina Tornborg, The girls defender isn’t shy with her wording, Sydsvenskan (November 24, 2002)
[6] Lasse Weirup,They purchased their citizenships, DN (November 1, 2003)
[7] Ulrika By, Christian Democrats want to revoke illegal citizenships, DN (November 3, 2003)
[8] Tina Thunander, Segregated city, segregated school, Uppdrag Granskning, SvT (2004)
[9] Violence in the schools, Document inside SvT (May, 8 2003)
[10] Violence in the schools 2, Document inside SvT (2004)
[11] Two arrested for knife quarrel in Malmö, DN (August 18, 2004)
[12] Ola Rothenborg, Seven years in prison for sandbox manslaughter, DN (September 29, 2004)
[13] Arnold Beichman, Eustatic racism in Eurabia, Washington Post (October 01, 2004)
[14] Abdel Rahman Al-Rashed, Innocent religion is now message of hate Telegraph (September 05, 2004)
[15] Bitte Hammargren, Fanatics stain Islam, SvD (September 9, 2004)
[16] Pierre Durrani, The bewilderedness strikes against the immigrants, Corren (September 21, 2004)
[17] Bo Södersten, Don’t classify information regarding immigrants,DN (December 28, 2004)
[18] Richard W.Rahn, Beguiling curves of the Swedish model, Washington Times (April 26, 2004)
[19] Migration department, Family ties (2004)
[20] Migration department, statistics, (2003)
[21] Swedish Government, report SOU 2002:13 (2002)
[22] Development 29^th of march to 6^th of April, Sydsvenskan (April 6, 2003)
[23] Bengt Ove Andersson, Sweden sends persecuted Jews back to certain death, Dagen.com (September 14, 2004)
[24] Richard Svanegård, This is the reality, Expressen (February 24, 2004)
[25] Peter Kadhammar One available job – 500 applicants, AB (March 2, 2005)
[26] Niklas Bodell, Half a million jobs disappearing abroad AB (March 17, 2005)
[27] Speech by the Minister for International Development Cooperation Carin Jämtin at the Council of the Socialist International, Mad (February 7, 2004)
[28] New Swedish plan for Palestinian aid, DN/TT (March 25, 2005)
[29] Haore Sulaiman, Worried over growing anti-SemitismThe World today (2005)
[30] Mats Lilja, Took the painting down after threats from Islamists, Expressen (February 2, 2005)
[31] Arabs Vandalize Judaism’s Holiest Site, Arutz Sheva (March 31,2005)
[32] Alexandra Hernadi, Controversial art censored, SvD (February 10, 2005)
[33] Mårten Arndtzén Look, a painting! Expressen (March 2, 2005)
[34] Over 1,000 war criminals in Sweden, The Local (March 11, 2005)
[35] Argus report, the Sweden Democrats (December 31, 2000)
[36] Muhammad most popular name in Malmö, Nya Dagen (January 29, 2001)
[37] Social democrats, Sweden’s first S-Muslim club founded, (June 5, 2003)
[38] Liberals wants to prohibit the veil, SvT (Febuary14 2004)
[39] S-no to school banishment of veils, TT/Dagen.com (February 18, 2004)
[40] S-politicians demand harder line against Israel, Expressen/TT (October 29, 2004)
[41] SvT, Growing Islamic movement in Sweden, Agenda (March 28, 2004)
[42] Göran Skytte,Warnings against Nalin Pekgul's signals, SvD (April 3, 2004)
[43] Jamie Glazov, Eurabia, Front Page Magazine (September 21, 2004)
[44] Per Gahrton, Sharon’s Mein Kampf, Palestine Now No 3 (September 3, 2002)
[45] Per Gahrton, Göran Persson and the Anti-Semitism, Palestine Now No 1 (January 27, 2004)
[46] Katja Magnusson, Segregation endures despite billions invested, Ekot P1 morning show SR (October 19, 2004)
[47] Aaron Karp,Anna Khakee, Scandinavia Most Heavily Armed Region in Western Europe, Press statement, Small Arms Survey (2003)
[48] Colonel Göran Boijsen's (chief of the southern district) introduction speech (April 3, 2005)
[49] Swedish Emergency Management Agency, A developed crisis emergency-draft (2005)
[50] Eduardo Farah, The Rise and fall of human society as and ecological process (1987)
[51] Benyamin Netanyahu, A durable peace p. 163. Warner Books (2000)
[52] Franjo Tudjman, Wastelands - Historical Truth (1988)
[53] Alija Izetbegovic, Islamic declaration (1970, 1989)
[54] http://www.tenc.net/ (2004)
[55] Marie Eriksson, Man's property or ruler of the home, The umbrella project (April 20, 2004)

Catch 22

2006-04-06T17:06:00.000-07:00

Due to the anti-Semitic trend that has been going on in Europe from the start of this new millennium, Jews have once again felt – and rightfully so – that it’s not even safe to wear a Star of David necklace, and that the government in charge has failed to address the overall security issues for the Jewish minority properly. If harassed Jews then should take the rather large step and move to Israel, using the Israeli inherent right of law of return, they will find themselves belonging to different group, portrayed by some politicians and in various Swedish media as “settlers”, and usually with the prefix “illegal”, or some other derogative labeling. But if, on the other hand, aliens, foreign asylum seekers, immigrants or work labor, (or like the Swedish prime minister Göran Persson once described this new phenomenon – “social tourism”) come to Sweden, it’s with pride the establishment calls it “multicultural exchange”.

For that very reason Sweden even had a minister of integration, Mona Sahlin, who served for years until 2004. Once she was expected to become the first female prime minister, but that was before the scandal when she used her government issued credit card for private purchases. She then went on “vacation” and made herself unavailable as the media wanted to ask her about it. It turned out that the would-be PM had difficulties handling her personal finances and that she mixed them up with her work and her spending account. Later she had problems again with handling her personal finances like paying parking tickets on time, despite the fact that she earned at least five times as much as, for instance, an overworked nurse who would have been fired for the same thing.

On the issue of anti-Semitism she has, among other things, come to the following conclusion (after reading the Sverker Oredsson and Mikael Tossavainen report), in statement No 10; “Likewise it is also told in the report that anti-Semitism is not specific for Arabs and Muslims.” Then she goes on with the usual promises of “investigations”, “hiring experts”, and bragging about Sweden “keeping statistics”. While statistics might be good for measuring the current climate, actual counter-actions to combat anti-Semitism would have been better. Annelie Enochson from the Christian Democrats concluded in statement No 18 that Jewish institutions in Sweden have to pay out of their own pockets for their own security, and they spend about 20% of their budgets solely on matters regarding security. Sahlin, while speaking on the topic of Swedish anti-Semitism, also explains in statement No 16:

“It is very important that one has the energy to understand the difference between criticizing a state, its government politics, whatever they may be, and to hate and despise an entire group like the Jews. All people calling themselves democrats must be able to do this. It is very important.”

Perhaps she should have educated her own party members, and especially the members of Parliament, on such issues, especially since they previously managed to describe the Jewish nation Israel’s democratically elected leader Sharon, as an “infamous ex-terrorist … war criminal” and other various derogatory, demonizing and insulting adjectives. Again, what did the Human Rights First report from March 22, 2004 have to say about such generalizations?

“In assessing the debate on the ‘new anti-Semitism’ we state that while criticism of Israel or the Zionist movement should not be considered inherently anti-Semitic, when this ‘disparages or demonizes Jews as individuals or collectively’ it crosses the line to become anti-Semitism.”

At the Swedish Parliament’s online database the single word “Sharon” alone results in more than 200 hits by the end of 2004 with a plethora of possible descriptions of character for the world’s only sovereign Jewish nation and their representative as well as democratically elected leader.
In 2004 the newly elected leader of the Left party, Lars Ohly (previously outspoken communist Gudrun Schyman had to resign due to a tax income scandal) had stated in Parliament, that Sharon is “…coming through as a monster, a monster with very powerful friends…”.

Mona Sahlin spoke many times about xenophobia with regards to Muslims, and organized several campaigns on behalf of the Muslims, as well as making statements such as “We need more mosques in Sweden”, but said very little about Muslims, originating from the Middle East, harassing Swedish Jews, and even less was said about any suggestions of funding Jewish organizations in order to help out with security measures, as in direct needs for security in order to preserve their presence within Swedish society. This while her governing colleagues’ affiliations have funded and channeled aid, along with moral support, yearly in the millions and adding up to billions, to a corrupt dictatorship regime that slaughter Jews. Well, it just might seem a bit hypocritical to then brag about the prime minister’s previous personal initiative regarding the Living History project.

At the Swedish Parliament debate regarding those very fundings, her Social Democratic colleague, Berndt Ekholm, stated in his assessment of Israel’s “peace counterpart” Yassir Arafat, who gave the world mayhem and terror and mainly targeting civilian Jews during the past 40 years, that: ”He is a freedom fighter, simple as that, but cannot transform this to such diplomacy which is needed for success”…

Continue to chapter, Some Swedish problems

The last bastion of the Israel critics

2006-04-06T17:04:00.000-07:00

“Israel should be criticized just like any other country”. True, and in Israel proper there is, and always has been, a vivid and lively debate from all involved parties doing that just fine on their own, without Swedish derogatory insults, patronizing attitudes and demonizing examples. Matter of fact, by comparison, one hasn’t seen the state of Israel criticize anything even close to the way Sweden handles (or doesn’t) their own internal problems. And problems there are, and increasing problems at that, at this time within Sweden itself.

Sweden as a society, and the established institutions in the country, have been rather obsessive by comparison with criticism towards other democracies, like Russia for instance, and have accused Israel of various “war crimes”. It’s really one of the oldest political techniques in the books; to divide (or rather in this case; divert) and conquer, the focus of attention from one’s own various internal problems. Jews have historically been the perfect scapegoat for many such accusations, and today Israel is clearly the mark. But it’s also simple political mathematics. Since there are about 18 000 Jews in Sweden, and today, after heavy immigration during the last decades, more than 400 000 Muslims, the Jews are clearly outnumbered. And they all have a vote in the elections.

Another good reason for the political parties to print their information leaflets and broadcast commercials in other languages such as Arabic and Farsi (but not Hebrew). So far the Swedish Jews have tried to mind their own business and not stir up problems. So it’s really not that far-fetched to start thinking of a political sell-out for the new immigrant voters, so that the politicians in power will remain in power. Some might actually call such behavior betrayal.

After this short journey one might be naturally inclined to ask if the Swedish population in general is anti-Semitic? Probably not, and it would be wrong to generalize in such a way. On the other hand, have they been misinformed more or less on a daily basis with skewed, flawed and biased anti-Israel propaganda by certain politicians and press establishment? Without a doubt.
But regular Swedes probably have, just like other people, usually more personal things on their minds like keeping up with mortgages, taking care of their health problems, getting the kids safely to and from school etc. Since they are not Jews they have no real insight, and they don’t really care that much about what it means to be a Jew in Sweden in the new climate of the new millennium. Another lesson from times of world war II.

…“The human is a daft and comfortable creature, that doesn’t particularly care about what goes on outside her zones. While accidents and hardships, that plagues our own groups, feel like harsh blows, the same incidents, if they happen to another group, perhaps a feeling of condolence, but on the whole it leave us untouched.”…

If the minority of Jews is so afraid that they hide their Star of David necklaces, the very symbol for their cultural ethnicity, what might happen to other Swedes? Signs have already been seen with public slaughter on the altar of political correctness, where school principals have already banned the usage of Swedish symbols such as flags on T-shirts and sweatshirts (but only for ethnical Swedish youngsters, if immigrants proudly wear them it’s OK for some reason) since it might be perceived as “provocative” towards the ”immigrants”, as patriotism might remind of nationalism – which isn’t that far from national socialism, (at least this is how it seemed to some grownup leftist role model logics), and the old tradition of singing the national anthem when greeting the summer before the school holidays was reported, in some cases, banned as well. Of course, there were no similar restrictions regarding “the new Swedes”, i.e. recent immigrants, since that would instantly be deemed racist. When the (non-Jewish) Swedes will start to worry at large is when their own children are being harassed and physically assaulted on their way to school, and when they risk being mugged or gang raped at knifepoint because of their ethnical heritage – then they will really start caring. What speaks for this is the fact that the only visible empathic protest in solidarity from within the Swedish society thus far, regarding the situation for its Jews, has been the Liberal party’s youth section’s Monday Movement , with speakers in Stockholm every Monday, an initiative organized together with the Israeli-Swedish Friendship Association working for Israeli and Swedish Jews’ rights to live a normal – and safe – life.

Continue to chapter, Catch 22

Conclusions

2006-04-06T17:01:00.000-07:00

This has been a very small selection of the massive allegations of what has been officially published, said and aired in the collective media, mainly in Sweden during a couple of years at the beginning of the new millennium, between 2000-2005. Since it has been going on for several years now, one can draw a couple of conclusions with regards to this. And so did Israel do to.

Never voted for Israel
Foreign Minister Shalom pointed out that in the latest 20 UN voting’s has Sweden voted against Israel 16 times and laid down it’s vote four times.
-You have never voted for us even one time, he said.

Sweden, the country that otherwise brags about its neutrality, has for some very strange reason tried, very intensely and with something close to obsession, to be involved in a massive attack of complaints and condemnations concerning the Israeli internal defense politics, while denying or ignoring the increasing anti-Semitism on Swedish soil. While some of the public debate has been about the “new anti-Semitism”, some have claimed it’s not so new at all; fact of the matter is that it’s the same old anti-Jewish themes, only they have now been upgraded and morphed. Nothing ever stays completely static. In the older form of European anti-Semitism there was no State of Israel and now there is, and Israel, as a symbol for the worldview on Jews, is therefore under constant attack on a daily basis, both verbally and physically.

Various leaders in political parties repeatedly accuse the Jewish nation, the sovereign democratic state of Israel, with unconfirmed rumors, half-truths, distortions, slander and outright lies, for defending itself against a relentless onslaught, primarily aimed at its civilian citizens. The direct consequence has without a doubt been that innocent Swedish civilian Jews, solely because they have been identifiable as Jews, have been harassed and terrorized on Swedish soil. At the beginning of the new millennium a short list is presented which includes those who have participated in various degrees of complaints against and condemnations of Israel, and the official positions they held in Sweden at the time, while simultaneously supporting the Arab Muslims and their actions.

• The three latest Social Democratic foreign ministers
• The deputy prime minister
• The Social Democratic Foreign Ministry’s ambassador to Germany
• The Social Democratic youth movement’s (SSU) two most recent leaders
• The two most recent leaders of the Left party – supporting the ruling government
• MP’s in the Left party – also supporting the ruling government
• The Left party’s youth movement’s two most recent leaders
• The Green party’s MP’s and EU candidates
• The unions
• Various government funded organizations, SIDA, the Olof Palme Center, the Anna Lindh Foundation
• The largest media agencies
• The archbishop
• Parts of the cultural establishment

The only good thing in all of this is that the Swedish prime minister has somewhat managed to resist the ongoing blame-Israel festival. The bad thing about it is that he didn’t do much publicly to combat the biased slander within the ranks of his own political party. This might be the reason why the Israeli prime minister Sharon felt compelled to state the following:

"To the European side, I said, your attitude towards Israel and the Arabs and the Palestinians should be balanced. When it will be balanced, you are most welcome to participate. But at this moment, the relations are unbalanced."
- The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, January 19, 2003

And a good example of what might be yet to come, was when the terrorist leader Arafat finally died, and the Swedish prime minister in his mourning stated, at the same time as the Swedish media almost went in collective national mourning:

“I feel a sense of sadness, melancholy. A great political leader has died.”

This he said before heading to the memorial ceremony in Cairo as the only European high-level PM politician attending at the taxpayers’ expense (and he missed the memorial ceremony too). This is the neutral Swedish prime minister’s judgment: …“a great leader”…

Strange words indeed to describe a corrupt dictator, who during his lifetime gave the world hijackings and large scale national as well as international terrorism, who denied “his own people” the forming of a viable state, and who set the world on fire in Jordan, Lebanon and Israel with civil terror wars, with tens of thousands of people butchered and many more lives deprived of the hope of a peaceful future. Even worse was when PM Persson then signed an editorial explanation in Aftonbladet, and I quote again, headlined: “Arafat’s dream was ours too”[sic!] Arafat’s political stated dream was “complete… destruction of… existence”. I.e. The annihilation of the “Zionist entity” Israel, by amongst other means, mass murdering Jewish children, just like the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Regardless of Persson’s political motives for this stunt, perhaps he was trying to fish for votes from the Left or Green party before the upcoming 2006 elections, or maybe he was finally simply going along with the older wing of the party, such as the previous FM Sten Andersson and his PLO-liners within the Social Democratic party. However, he had now in this opportunistic cheap shot forever written himself out of the history as a possible trustworthy friend of the Israeli people. And Sweden can therefore not partake in any trustworthy peace brokering deals with its government’s biased anti-Israel attitude, and with such a composition of ministers. It seems that the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s politics mainly consists of condemning democratic states under continuous attack, sounds which can be clearly heard over the silence that speaks volumes of acknowledged support to brutal dictatorship regimes and their actions.

After this list have been checked and counted for a period of over three years, it’s not too far-fetched to claim that this is a pretty good representative image of the collective Swedish establishment, in Swedish society at large. So far, ranging from the collective media, including TV, radio, newspapers and the unions, the church and the politicians have been very busy contributing in various one-sided and loud public condemnations, and the continuous bashing of the world’s only Jewish sovereign state, the only democracy in the Middle East, situated in the midst of a desert ocean of theocratic dictatorships. So while the solidarity has been rather generous with Muslim or Arab organizations where terrorist groups are found around or within, targeting Jewish civilians in Israel, the support hasn’t been notable for the Swedish Jews who have been harassed on Swedish soil. Some historians and others might claim that Sweden historically actually prolonged the Second World War by its submission to, and its iron trade with Nazi Germany, but one can conclude that the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s urging to Hitler Germany to put the Letter “J” in their Jewish citizens’ passports, perhaps, in retrospect, wasn’t the brightest idea. At least not for the European Jews. But after the war ended they all stood collectively dumbfounded and claimed their innocence. The first and best-known excuse after the Nazi horrors had at the time been “We didn’t know”.

And then, when anti-Semitism erupted again within their own borders after their own able help and daily slander, they are still dumbfounded and still they protest their innocence. Of course they are not anti-Semites. They just want to criticize the only Jewish nation in the world – and claiming their right to do so while they know nothing about living under constant threat and continuous war – when that very country is in the process of defending its very existence from crazed jihad maniacs on overt genocidal annihilation operations. The “We didn’t know” excuse is already worn out. Perhaps this is just a shallow and empty European standard slogan they believe can be dusted off and used time and again? In this modern era when the news and official press statements from all over the globe is just one computer click away, it might be a bit harder. After all, this is the era of information revolution.

Continue to chapter, The last bastion of israel critics

Terror

2006-04-06T16:57:00.000-07:00

Sometimes this seems to be a really hard word to define. At least for some. Another popular saying goes “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”. It seems today that especially left oriented ideologists tend to mince this, and thus making excuses for Arab Islamist extremists. However, real freedom fighters usually don’t make a habit of achieving fame and claiming honor by deliberately executing civilian unarmed defenseless mothers and their children at point blank range, execution style to the head, for the sole reason that they happen to belong to the “wrong” ethnic group. Jew-hating terrorists do however, and have time and time again acted accordingly, and have done so a lot lately.

Nations and states have been struggling with this word; “terror”. Some even point their fingers at the UN and (rightfully) claim that even they have problems defining what terror really is. Well, except from when the UN office headquarters in Iraq was hit on August 19, 2003, by a bomb blast. Then the UN press statement by UN Chairman Kofi Annan himself, read that the UN had been targeted by, and I quote: “unprovoked and murderous violence”. Which is another and pretty good summary of what terror is really all about.

A Swedish journalist, occasionally employed by AB, and author by the name of Björn Kumm has written the book “History of Terrorism” (reprinted and updated in 2003) where certain misapprehensions are put into printed words. His readers are informed in the chapter “The first terrorists” that in the world history the first terrorists were the Jews. And the author of crime novels, Liza Marklund, believed him: “The first terrorists. They were Jews” – more or less like a parrot she repeated this without a flinch, and without questioning.

The author does not explain, or give any really good explanation, anywhere in his book, the definition of what the term “terror” means in itself, except perhaps in “The poor mans choice”. According to the online Merriam-Webster encyclopedia however, the definition is: “violence: (as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands.” Then one might continue to read the American (as in USA) definitions and what the CIA, the US government intelligence department writes:

“The Intelligence Community is guided by the definition of terrorism contained in Title 22 of the US Code, Section 2656f(d):
— The term “terrorism” means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against non-combatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.
— The term “international terrorism” means terrorism involving the territory or the citizens of more than one country.
— The term “terrorist group” means any group that practices, or has significant subgroups that practice, international terrorism.”

The US Navy has concluded this definition with:

“The U.S. Government has employed this definition of terrorism for statistical and analytical purposes since 1983.”

Some other quotes:

“Terrorism is the unlawful use or threat of violence against persons or property to further political or social objectives. It is usually intended to intimidate or coerce a government, individuals or groups, or to modify their behavior or politics”.
— Vice-President’s Task Force, 1986

“ Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”— FBI Definition

American governmental authorities already have their definitions as well as a clear understanding of this word. What is commonly accepted practice nowadays is that this kind of terrorist violence is foremost aimed at an unprotected and unarmed civilian population, as a primary and main target. Therefore, violence (or threats of violence) because of political (or religious) intentions (primarily) against non-combatants – is equal to terror, as means for illegal political-religious blackmail and extortion. According to the author Kumm the Jewish zealots, who protested and fought against the Roman invading legions, were terrorists. The author gives an example with references to religious aspects and the Bible, which was conducted around 2000 years ago when the author describes what happens to a Jewish heretic. The fact that the Romans certainly used severe methods to subdue the invaded Jewish population is, or at least, should be common knowledge as historical fact. For those to whom it isn’t, a reading tip is the book by Josephus Flavius, The Jewish Wars.

Naturally and especially the rebels fighting against the Romans, including the Jewish zealots, suffered as they were killed and maimed in the most gruesome ways. After the final rebellion in 132-135, known as the Bar-Kochba uprising, named after its leader with the same name, when hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed, with an estimated half a million slaughterd Jews, and further tens of thousands sent away to the Orient as slaves separating them from their homes – and thus the Jewish Diaspora begun.

It is probably not the most scientific procedure to refer to the Bible when conducting a crime scene investigation thesis regarding committed terrorist crimes. But if one still wishes to use the Bible as reference point, it is also written that the Judean hills is the eternal homeland of the Jews (given to the Jews by God, and not to the Romans or anyone else), and therefore the most natural and logical conclusion would be that some of the Jews in fact acted in self-defense against what was clearly a foreign invasion. But if one still wishes to use the Bible as reference point, like Kumm did in his blame-game, it also says at an even earlier stage, in the Old Testament, Exodus, chapter 1:

16: "When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth stool, if it is a son, you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live."

This alone, if anything, could and should be classified as pure terror against a civilian unarmed population. If one is still of the opinion that all Arabs are the same people as, or at least closely related, to the ancient people of Egypt, something many Arabs of today like to cultivate myths about, then there shouldn’t be any questions left for those journalists and authors who are trying to classify who the first terrorists in history were by staring at the Old Testament for answers. But the author Kumm manages, be it intentionally or not, to blame the Jews for the plague that swept and still sweeps over the world to this day. “The first terrorists were Jews” he claims. He then devotes a complete chapter to “The Jewish Terrorists” where he claims that it was the Jews who also introduced the modern terror of today in the Middle East, at first against the British colonial rulers during the mandate period. He goes on, taking great care to dig up every tiny piece he can find, trustworthy or not, about Jews who might have conducted terror in his very selective and narrow story telling:

“During the first half of the 20th century terrorism spread to the Middle East. The first to use terrorist methods were the Jewish groups who like their predecessors 2000 years earlier went in close quarter combats with the occupational force – because of, as they perceived it, the same nationalistic goal, the rebirth of an independent Israel.”

On February 22, 1948, three car bombs go off in Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, leveling four buildings, injuring about 130 persons and leaving more than 50 dead. The victims were Jews; many of them were at the time of the blasts asleep in their beds. Deserted British soldiers delivered the trucks filled with explosives. The British government’s official position had until this point been restricting Jewish immigration heavily with the White Book (1939), in order to appease Arab Muslim political extortion claims, and used secured camps surrounded by barbed wire and guarded with machine guns in Cyprus for the remaining civilian Jewish survivors of the European Holocaust. British foreign minister Bevin later declared that their officers trained and lead the Transjordanian Arab Legion – which later tried to annihilate the Jews. The car bomb at Ben Yehuda was merely the straw that broke the camel’s back for Irgun and Lehi, who then declared British soldiers fair game, as retaliation.

Other sources in Kumm’s book are the Swedish Jewish author, Göran Rosenberg, and the Israeli writer Benny Morris, the latter described as being “the most critical Israeli researcher”. Morris has already been exposed in Professor Efraim Karsh’s Fabricating Israeli History. But the Swedish audience mainly knows of the journalist Rosenberg, a Jewish intellectual with outspoken left oriented sympathies. He has written a self-explaining book “The Lost Land” (1996) where he describes himself as not being content by what he found in Israel, when he, as a teenager, tried to make aliyah. He lived there for two and a half years from 1962, when he left and went back to Sweden – to work for the Palestine Groups translating Hebrew in the beginning of the 1970’s together with people like Jan Guillou. Or, as he himself puts it, “the Anti-Zionist left to which I belonged myself at the end of the 1960’s”. Rosenberg seems mainly disappointed and disgruntled in his book, that the state of Israel didn’t fulfill all his teenage expectations.

Morris himself has changed his tune a bit lately, clearly blaming the Muslim Arabs for the current war. In the British paper The Guardian one could read a longer chronicle beginning like this:

“Peace? No chance

The rumor that I have undergone a brain transplant is (as far as I can remember) unfounded – or at least premature. But my thinking about the current Middle East crisis and its protagonists has in fact radically changed during the past two years. I imagine that I feel a bit like one of those western fellow travelers rudely awakened by the trundle of Russian tanks crashing through Budapest in 1956.”…

Perhaps a conclusion in the Israel Insider best describes another Israeli view regarding Jews like Morris:

…”But the genre of historical writing that has done the most damage to Israel's image has not been the hatred-filled screeds coming out of the dubious academic institutions of Cairo and Damascus. It has been the work of Jews who have come to doubt the justice of Israel’s cause that has emboldened its enemies the most. In the last 20 years, the rise of a new group of Israeli historians, known as “revisionists”, has engendered a bitter debate about Israel’s origins and policies.”…

Kumm, in a chapter later named “We have called from our tents” claims that Arabs only resorted to terrorist violence a quarter of a century after the Israel’s declaration of independence as a response, as a perfect school example of reversal of guilt and selectivity regarding historical facts. Kumm not only fails to mention, but totally omits such previous Arab and Muslim terror, amongst plenty of easy to find examples (as for instance the role of the Muslim Brotherhood (formed 1928), that today has “modernized” into the terror group of Hamas) for his reading audience in his book. Like for instance the previous leader of the Arabs in the British controlled mandate, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husseini, who later became a Nazi war criminal after organizing the Muslim Waffen SS extermination divisions in the Balkans during the Second World War, and who was personally involved in Hitler’s extermination plans regarding which key player it might have been that brought terrorist violence into those parts of the Middle East that is Israel today.

The Israeli museum Tel Hai in northern Galilee tells the story of the one-armed Joseph Trumpeldor who was mortally wounded on March 1, 1920, when helping Jews to defend their homes against attacking Arabs.
As early as in April 1920 Arabs had, and which was later documented in the Haycraft commission, staged riots against the Jewish civilian population in Jerusalem in what became known as the “Bloody Passover” with deadly outcome. And again in Jaffa, a year later along with other Jewish areas, which resulted in 88 dead and another 238 wounded ). The Haycraft commission later summed it up thus:

“The racial strife was begun by the Arabs, and rapidly developed into a conflict of great violence between Arabs and Jews, in which the Arab majority, who were generally the aggressors, inflicted most of the casualties.”

And this was only a foretaste of what was to come as a result of the appointment of the British high commissioner (and of Jewish origin) Sir Samuel, and from the hate agitating Mufti, with follow ups in the form of Arab riots against Jews in 1929, and again during 1936-39. Looting, plundering and raping went on as well as killings of unarmed civilian Jews, and there was certainly no Israeli occupation then, since the re-establishment of the modern state of Israel was yet to come. As an initial response to the first Arab Muslim attacks and pogroms aimed directly at the Jews, they did the most logical thing to do as the British colonial rulers seemed either not to be able to, or be interested in protecting the Jews and so planted the first seed that was to be the Haganah – the defense organization, on June 5, 1920. Vladimir Jabotinsky (“the right-wing so called revisionist” according to Kumm) took part in creating the Jewish Defense Forces in 1920, for which the British first sentenced him to 15 years of hard labor, where after he later, after a public outcry, was granted amnesty and pardoned.

Between 1920 and 1948, during the time of the British mandatary colonial rule, there is a plethora of examples of gruesome terrorist attacks and ethnic cleansing, conducted by Arabs against Jews. But of those well-known historical facts Kumm mentions absolutely nothing to his readers in this particular chapter, or anywhere else in the book for that matter. And how is the mufti’s successor, the Egyptian born Arafat portrayed the few times he is mentioned in Kumm’s book?

…“lastly got control of a small part of his occupied homeland”… p. 26
…“the revolutionary as their commanding officer”… p. 92
…“Arafat’s umbrella organization PLO, the Palestinian liberation organization”… p. 93

The state of Israel on the other hand, became internationally famous for combating terrorism, both in theory and in practice, both foreign and domestic, because of what they are and have been subjected to by force. Israel’s former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written several internationally praised books on the subject, before the catastrophe struck the USA with the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, and Netanyahu is himself a former officer in one of Israel’s top elite military branches: the Sayeret Matkal (The Elite). Netanyahu’s brother was killed during the rescue raid at Entebbe in 1976 when the state of Israel showed to the whole world how one should never give in to terrorist threats. Netanyahu founded an Israeli institute is his brothers name: The Jonathan Institute, and in 1979 he funded and organized an international conference on terrorism.

Should anyone be interested in the proven modern day terrorism in the Middle East, it was Arabs, especially those who later came to call themselves Palestinians, who invented the modern terrorist industry of hijackings of civilian airliners, like when the PLFP hijacked the El-Al passenger plane in Rome on July 23, 1968, which later was followed by a series of airline hijackings. The Israeli airplane company El-Al has since been regarded as world leading with regards to the safety of civilian airplanes, and other democracies started taking classes in order to learn from the Israeli experience of measures to take in order to protect the passengers. For those who are interested in the ongoing phenomenon of “walking bombs”, there are several sources, free of charge available on the Internet, where one for instance can read the paper the Atlantic Monthly , a think tank where experts interview Israeli officers about the industry of Arab Muslim homicide bombers that debunks most of the myths of the “poor”, “uneducated”, “desperate” and “last resort” excuses made which some left oriented pro-Palestinians try to cultivate. It takes organization, money, education, bomb builders, handlers, drivers, lookouts, scouts, and lots of hard planning just to produce one homicide bomber.
Kumm, on the other hand, seems to have had a little career boost while teaching his findings at the Olof Palme Center. A mere two weeks after USA was hit on 9/11, when the victims corpses were still laying crushed under the debris, and when there was still chaos and shock still ruled the world, Kumm was conducting and leading a seminar, and moved the discussion in order to speak about “state terrorism” instead, bringing up Israel as an example to illustrate that, which was soon followed by Jonas Gardell claiming that US actions ”against its own population” and “in Tripoli in 1996” also were perfect examples of state terror.

On another personal note; what terrorism needs in the lowest form to function, can be divided into two main categories: Economic supply and an ideology (which can include extreme secteristic religious interpretations) to keep up the terrorist business. One cannot work without the other. It’s a symbiosis. And parts of the Swedish establishment have contributed in both areas, with pleasing and appeasing the former PLO, and lately the PA with both billions of aid money and worse, moral support to the organization under the wishful-thinking pretext of future peace.

What terrorism mainly produces, and needs to be able to continue to produce in order to work and operate, besides the maimed and dead bodies, is fear. Fear of more terror from the terrorists, aimed at their proclaimed enemies. Those who preach that terror is the result of Islamic fundamentalism, and that it can never happen in Europe are (obviously) wrong, since it already has, and within the EU. The large Madrid train bombing, and the brutal murders of political leader Pim Fortuyn (although Swedish media covered up the factual assassination motive , and instead claimed it was a animal activist who went crazy) as well as the murder of the artist Van Gogh prove otherwise. And then the spectacular London bombings. These acts of pure savagery in the heart of Europe have produced fear among the western population, who with artistic culture, their openness and democratic values as well as political freedom oppose extreme Islamism.

Continue to chapter, conclusions

Psychological warfare

2006-04-06T16:54:00.000-07:00

An observant reader might now have come to understand that there is something fishy with the ongoing reporting regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict in the part of Europe that is Sweden.

That, in fact, most people seem to have been had, at least in Sweden, by their own media and government political spokespersons and other opinion creators. For reporting suspected media bias there is in Sweden the Press-Ombudsman, for the broadcasted media it’s the Broadcasting Commission state authority, and when everything else fails there is the chancellor of justice. But, as previously shown, they have all for some very strange reason somehow failed to address the obvious and outright bias, the incitement and the slanderous allegations against both Swedish Jews and Israelis.

This is clearly crafted propaganda and disinformation. There is a war going on. A war of semantics. Initially invented by the Muslim Arabs of the Arab League and its subsequent pawn the PLO, and later adopted by some of their western protégées. The previously mentioned blogsphere also invokes it from all angles, as well as on the political scale, and almost always coming from the left end of the political scale. An ongoing 24/7 collectives alliance forms, and of course it focuses on the enemy camps. Like in all wars there are casualties, and this also goes for the psychological information warfare. Public Swedish defense plans have previously on a yearly basis been distributed to every household, as part of the free telephone catalogues, should Sweden ever be subjected to foreign aggression. One of the authorities that handle such issues is the National Board of Psychological Defense . In the online section Media Awareness one can read the following:

“In today’s society the mass media is one of the most powerful psychological forces to reckon with. While working on the development of good crisis preparedness, actors on all levels must regard the importance of the media as news deliverers, creators of opinions and not to mention in the broadest context being the leading, driving and gathering force of society’s information flow.“

The opposite, information war, means seeking to convince people of a certain aspect, to achieve action or to get support for certain actions, and to achieve the goal that this disinformation is largely adopted. Swedish Jews, as myself, have, from my personal point of view, been silenced and taken hostages in the 24/7 ongoing media campaign against Israel, and of course this kind of mental torture can most probably have psychological effects. For instance, people can become dysfunctional in both their private and public lives if they start caring too much about what is going on. Because a large number of the Diaspora Jews know, either by contacts via email or telephone with relatives living in Israel, and/or by personal experience, what really goes on in Israel, and also what is permitted and what is not, within the general society as well as in the army. All Swedish news reports regarding Israel can, and should, be checked and counterchecked with Israeli daily news broadcasting, these days available online. The option is to either believe the Swedish delivered news completely, or the more sane approach; to ignore them.

Because if one does that, i.e. ignores the Swedish pro-Arab propaganda, there is daily conclusion of the ongoing Swedish media bias war which continues to run amok. In Israel however, since it is a democracy, freedom of press is large, despite the fact that the very same democracy has been under constant attack ever since its rebirth, and there are several newspapers which publish the latest Israeli news right from the scene, in English, ranging from right-wing Israeli national news (Arutz Sheva) to left-wing Ha’aretz. In between there are newspapers like Jerusalem Post and Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet) as well as perhaps the most popular among the Israelis, Ma’ariv. So for any single topic, there is a possibility to counter check the sources with at least five independent and competitive free Israeli online domestic newspapers.

The claim that this in itself would be a partial approach since “Israel is part” of the ongoing war is nothing more than ludicrous (and by the way, Aftonbladet has often cited and praised the smaller Ha’aretz, and also made direct translations from that very newspaper). This in the same way, (for example, if one really wants to be sure of what goes on in Sweden) as if one should have to turn to and trust the reports from a third country, like for instance, reading the Cape Times in South Africa in order to get reliable information regarding domestic Swedish news. And for those who are really uncertain, there are of course the other international news agencies, and they too have their own media watch dogs that specialize in this conflict. In Europe, the largest one is Honest Reporting and in the US it’s the organization Camera.

Other victims of this psychological warfare are usually ordinary people, who have no clue at all (and perhaps not the time nor the interest to find out more) to what is really going on in Israel, and instead trust the more uncomplicated approach of what the media serves them, in the form of tabloid headlines or televised breaking news, since they have no personal experience of it or any friends or relatives inside Israel. I have first-hand witnessed the tragic results of this in the streets of the Nordic region, overhearing daily discussions, after the latest bomb who blew the “peace process” to bits along with innocent Jewish victims, including remarks like “Israel – now, who in their right mind would go there, either to show support for their state terror regime, or risking one’s life by bombs exploding in crowds of people?” Ordinary people are either too scared of the options to find out more and see with their own eyes, and at the same time they are shaped into having a molded opinion, usually without even realizing it. Before the second terror wave, the second intifada, Israel had a flourishing tourist business, which during the last years have stagnated and crippled the economy, but probably even worse, disabled people in order for them not to see with their own eyes what is true and what is not.

On a personal note, since I have (like many other Jews) been a volunteer in various Israeli army programs several times, I have – unlike the regular Swedish correspondents, journalists, politicians and foreign news experts and opinion makers – seen what the Israeli army training and actions are all about. From the inside. And my very own personal experience of it, with arms and wearing that uniform, often – very often – clashes with what is otherwise told to the general public. For instance, the Israeli army programs and training involves compulsory visits to Israeli Arab villages in efforts to foster a peaceful relationship, something that has largely worked, despite Arafat’s repeated efforts to ruin it, with Israel’s Arab Muslim, Druze, Bedouins, Christians and other national minorities inside the so-called green line. And one reason for this to have worked so well is that the army, which at best can be described as an society within the Israeli society, not only has the task of securing the safety for all Israeli citizens, but also such daily smaller issues like the constant support of nurses and doctors for health emergencies.

For instance, a usual example in the psychological warfare is when negative criticism or complaints seem to automatically be counter-attacked with rhetorical accusations of “racism” regarding Arabs and Muslims, but when it comes to Israelis and Jews it has now evolved into “legitimate criticism”.

And what is rarely seen these days are any positive news about Israel. Israeli inventions, such as the flourishing Israeli IT-industry, where patented inventions are being used by electronical businesses around the globe as well as locally. These products help people, pay a large part in the world of medical research, help doctors (and military personnel) with search and rescue teams flying all over the world as they volunteer wherever natural disasters occur. All such ongoing actions are downplayed and silenced and are at best referred to in the back sections of the papers, if mentioned at all.

My own personal theory is that it has very much to do with personal power, and to contain this at any cost, with sensationalistic populist politics in the democratic political sphere. Like for instance when some politicians tend to promise one thing and once they are in power they do just the opposite. The Swedish PM Persson and the Israeli counterpart Sharon seem to have done exactly this. Persson promised that the taxes would not be increased, and that public healthcare costs and queues along with the increasing unemployment would be of the foremost concern. Sharon was elected due to promises of never abandoning an inch of Yesha (Judea/Samaria) or Gaza as it could be regarded as an award for terrorism. Once in power exactly the opposite has happened, despite the previous promises. Like I said; to gain and hold on to personal power. The same goes for journalists. If the media tells a story that a bomb just exploded somewhere among innocent civilians, this is regarded as news, but when media subsequently changes the original report (which they subscribe to from various international news agencies) and then change it to suit their own personal political viewpoints, using it for their own political agenda, like adding that the bomb was planted by “militants”, “freedom fighters” or “resistance fighters” in “the struggle” and a plethora of other imaginative adjectives instead of the plain word “terrorists” – then the vocal psychological war has started yet again. There are several interesting online recourses, governmental as well as civilian, for the subject of psychological information warfare, such as Iwar , with plenty of useful information on dis-/information war tactics ranging from plain disinformation up to actual computer break-ins planting falsified information.

Continue to chapter, Terror

State funded Broadcasting commission “Impartial”?

2006-04-06T16:53:00.000-07:00

And what about the branch of the Swedish state authority broadcasting commission, which handles and checks for aired impartial media biased or slanderous errors? Well, an online search at the beginning of 2005 on their website for the single word Israel reveals 150 reported complaints (the word Palestine results in 76 hits) that has turned into case numbers starting from 1997. If 30 citizens reacted and reported on comments regarding the comments on Israel’s performance during the Eurovision Song Contest, that could produce 30 cases. And one ruling. If the case isn't simply dropped. Out of those 150 reported individual cases regarding broadcast media, a mere two have resulted in being ruled as biased or factually wrong (and another two ruled as “critical”), unlike the freed previously above mentioned example with the Hamas martyr children, after the state hired authority experts to investigate.

Well then, a closer look into those two sentenced cases. The first case was a radio show called Transit, which consisted of an interview with a Norwegian pro-Israeli person. The reporter asked about Sar-El, a volunteer program for the Israeli army, which focuses on non-combat simple work tasks. Two citizens filed complaints against the broadcasting of the program, claiming it worked as a recruitment commercial segment for the IDF.
The broadcasting Swedish Radio, SR, according to the notes in ruling of case 610/02 J, meant that the reporter’s intention, had been that the story was made…
“with a critical undertone in a conclusion about the foundation with the purpose of pointing to the strange thing that the foundation already could have recruited 75 000 volunteers to the Israeli war power [my note: In Swedish media the Israeli Defense Forces are commonly rhetorically re-labeled] with not one of the authorities or Scandinavian opinion creators even reacting”.

The reporter’s intentions were clearly not, by written accord, pro-Israeli, but rather the opposite. Still it was deemed that the reporter had conducted illegal recruitment according to Swedish crime legislation. Similar topics, never mind the numerous news stories, worked at the same time more or less as recruitment advertisements for the ISM and their “human shields” PR groups, urging people to travel to Israel in order to harass and intimidate security personnel (in order to protect and shield potential terrorists).
Secondly was when two media clowns (who started their journalistic careers with Aftonbladet) hosted a satirical TV show called Tredje Makten (the Third Power), where they hackled every issue and every ethnicity they could find, and kept mocking them, including anyone from Arabs to Holocaust victims as well as the state of Israel.
It seems as if some with scales that are somewhat out of proportion judge life and death issues.
So, these two cases just mentioned, which can be found online, are the only cases where anyone has been found guilty of breaking the rules of impartial media out of 150 different complaints during eight years. One of them was sentenced in decision SB 349/01 as being “critical”, which happened after the homicide bombing at the Tel-Aviv disco the Dolphinarium, where the Swedish news correspondent stood in front of an Israeli checkpoint boasting in an accusing way:

…”but one can come walking towards them just like I did. I could have had the entire bag filled with dynamite if I so wished. So this is really not about controlling terrorists but rather about harassment of the Palestinian inhabitants in this area.”

Finally, why not take peek at another filed complaint, which was also perceived by some as threats against Swedish Jews after visiting Arabs had stated that “Jews should feel scared” [in Sweden], where the persons involved were later acquitted in case no SB 606/02 Dnr: 342/02-20:

…“If Sharon says it is war, then certain rules apply. But one can always ask what kind of war this is, because it doesn’t have two equal adversaries. It is terror [My note: legal Israeli counter terrorist actions] ignited by despicable terrorist deeds, but let’s then discuss what the other on is. Is it really war or is it a kind of Israeli state terror that will lead to new terror deeds and so on?”

and

…“begins to understand what it is that drives these youths to blow themselves up together with those close by. But it is hard to understand what drives Sharon, what it is that makes him act in a way that looks like political insanity”…

These slanderous allegations against the entire nation of Israel, while making obvious excuses for terrorism, was said, by foreign experts re-occuringly invited to comment on the Israeli response incursion in Jenin, and was aired straight into millions of homes in Sweden by the two main media news shows Rapport and Aktuellt at prime time. And what does actually a “guilty” verdict mean in these cases? Prison? Fines? No, the mere dishonor of have been found out, to be found guilty of the state authority’s “exposition”. Cases where fines are being ruled are for example such heinous deeds as when the state television can be suspected of illegal sponsorship or product placements, like for example, for ice hockey events (decisions SB 221/05) where fines of 100 000 SEK subsequently are ruled.

Looks like the alternative bloggers can (and probably will) have a bright future taking over the state authority’s experts, appointed by the ruling government, to work with scrutinizing and judging the state sponsored broadcast media, for free.

Continue to chapter, Psychological warfare

Media critics complaints go bloggers

2006-04-06T16:50:00.000-07:00

The only way to complain about biased and unfair reporting in Sweden has so far been filing complaints with various branch organizations and state authorities. The judges in those cases are either former colleagues or persons who write and/or speak in the media or are connected in other ways to those the complaints are filed against. One example is when a former Social Democratic minister (who begun her political career in the Communist party) had written a biased accusation in Aftonbladet against the Israeli society at large, headlined “Stop the Israeli violence against children” (where of course nothing was mentioned about violence against Israeli children, or against Arab children from within the PA controlled areas), in the capacity of her new role as CEO for the influential Children’s’ Rights Foundation. She was also, after the article was published, participating in the state authority’s work group for the broadcasting commission, who decided and overruled incoming complaints. Viewers had pointed out errors in the translation from Arabic to Swedish in a story segment, where children in Hamas operated terrorist camps had been interviewed. The children had, in Arabic, said before the camera that they “hated Jews in general” which was translated to “Israelis”. The decision to overrule the complaint, claiming there was no foul play, only in a lesser degree (while at the same time admitting that translation error in fact was true) and thereby covering up the pure Jew-hating remarks for the Swedish audience, by claiming: “But the children meant Israelis” – according to the state authority of the “translator’s intentions”. Needless to say, perhaps, the official Hamas political charter also speaks of exclusively killing Jews, not Israelis. So perhaps it would not be too farfetched to conclude that the “fair and balanced” media might agree with this view and that they have a rather unhealthy and tight grip on a society with such various collaborating agendas, where some investigators might, every now and then, at some point need the media platform in order to get their political messages out and their 15 minutes of fame.

And so the bloggers arrive on the scene. A blog like this is described as a weblog (blog is an abbreviation of web-log) where every day anonymous (or not) individuals or groups can comment on daily topics, like the media. And then the readers of the blog can usually comment on it. An easy and cheap way of getting messages out about what’s on your mind, while having a dialogue as well and exchanges of thoughts, on an international as well as local level. Internationally the bloggers like “Little Green Footballs” in two cases challenged and sank dinosaurs of media profiles, the first one known as Rathergate, with founded proof of fabricated computer notes regarding president Bush, before the election campaigns.
I too started a blog as a test run. In less than 6 months I had some 6000 hits and readers. So it’s easy to see – you do get your message out, both the political as well as the media complaints. Some Swedish politicians adopted this new tactic as well, and started blogging. Leftist Ali Esbati for example, the former youth leader of the Left party, tended to censor lengthily the well-written comments that was too hard for him to understand and respond to.

By the end of 2004 and in the beginning of 2005 one of the more successful Swedish bloggers was “Alicio in Wonderland”. In one of his blogs he discussed an SVT-run program, called Faktum, where a journalist had made a program about terror. Alicio first dissected the program, and then went even further by doing a background check with the help of material available for the general public online, of the journalist behind the story, regarding the journalist’s political affiliations. Alicio then proceeded with checking the factual story, and came to the obvious conclusion that what was and had been aired on the show, had been more in the territory of obviously biased propaganda, where blunt factual errors regarding terrorism had been presented to the general public. Factual arguments and transcriptions were added in the blog. A political columnist, Peter Wolodarski, ran an opinion-editorial in DN about this specific case, pointing out Alicio’s findings. Suddenly Alicio had made it to the big crowd of readers. There was a complaint filed regarding the program, and the blogsphere rejoiced over the power of the ordinary citizen, the Everyman.

But there were those who didn’t celebrate. The left-wing bloggers were angry and upset over the political accusations and allegations, and they had stalked Alicio for a long time. Now it seemed they were jealous, but mainly they were furious over Everyman’s victory, since Alicio, among other things, rightfully had pointed out the journalist as an active member of a political communist section. Alicio was now counter accused of “McCarthy-ism”. This resulted in large parts of the established bloggers to use a new founded saying, “Lex Alicio” as an extension of Goodwin’s law, when verbal counter attackers dismiss the first stated main subject, in obvious attempts to try to sidetrack the main issue from the very beginning. But the interest for Alicio didn’t end there. Outspoken leftist bloggers which had stalked him now focused even harder, trying to get his true identity known, with accusations ranging from everything from Alicio being a Timbro (a liberal publishing company) employee, to being on the payroll of the Mossad (Israeli intelligence), rather than to counter his actual and factual writings regarding the subject of terrorism. And this time it seems that they succeeded, by checking the media complaints to the state authority board commission, since complaints cannot be made anonymous. Once what was believed to be the real name was out, some had gone further with personal calls to that person’s parents posing as “friends”. The blog that first allowed this kind of spectacular “outing” and wild guessing and harassments in the comments section to begin with, had been and was the Left’s established previous youth leader Ali Esbati's blog, in the posting "Alicio" + Wolodarski = McCarthy .

And when miss Klein of Aftonbladet later discovered this new phenomenon of “blogging”, she, from the editorial and elevated power position first posting ever, regarding the issue and local politics formulated that, in a shorter description of Alicio as, “clearly a right wing extremist”.

Another blogger, well worth mentioning, with hundreds of thousands of readers, aiming for the international arena, using English as primary language, was the Norwegian “Fjordman”, ,that made several in-depth analyses of the Swedish political situation. The outcome verdict from the neighboring countryman factual postings consisted mainly of harsh criticism against the Swedish appeasement with regards to Islam, and the subsequent following failures of integration.

Continue to chapter, State funded Broadcasting commission “Impartial”?

Aftonbladet (AB)

2006-04-06T16:37:00.000-07:00

Aftonbladet (AB) is Sweden’s (and the Nordic region’s) largest evening paper. It might even be called the Social Democrats’ “house” paper. It has been convicted (in one rare case) for hate speech and agitation against an ethnic group (the Jews) on their moderated Internet chat page. What AB, among others, failed to “moderate” was a link leading straight to a “cartoon” on Radio Islam, praising AB for standing up against the “Jewish lobby” (supposedly in control of the Swedish newspapers). The same AB that later was freed by the chancellor of justice after a few of their reporters had asked neo-Nazis to do a Hitler salute for the paper’s photographer.
The image below was the starting point for the following Israeli news reports.

Aftonbladet
Wolfgang Hansson, Saturday September 30, 2000
An Israeli soldier marches forwards. A wounded young Palestinian sits on the ground. A momentary picture from yesterday’s riots in Jerusalem. Three Palestinians died and at least 96 was wounded. Photo by AP.

Wolfgang Hansson, supposedly as one of AB’s “experts” on the Middle East, was from this day utterly and completely wrong about the facts surrounding the eruption of the intifada. The picture above is actually of a Jew, who had just been attacked by an Arab mob. The Israeli soldier is shouting at the fleeing mob, defending the blood-soaked Jew, Tuvia Grossman, and saving him from being beaten to death.
Any attempt to correct the text of this online article from AB has yet to be seen, even today to when this is written, four years later.

But during these four years the real power in Sweden – the media – had been pumping out its biased messages (and propaganda) in the largest evening paper. In chronicles it’s possible to shape public opinion. This is a well-known fact. The AB columnists are promoted thus: ”Every day, read chronicles written by the sharpest pens in Sweden.” I concur and couldn’t agree more, and every day when I read their “sharp” chronicles I feel repeatedly stabbed in the heart. Their pens are not only sharp; they’re poisonous as well as dangerous. They manage, with their slandering and treacherous lies about the democracy Israel, to poison peoples’ minds and inflict me with disgust.
Some excerpts from the lengthy recurring chronicles:

…“Images gnaws at my memory and makes me wonder, how does the warm Israel friends and Israel apologists feel today?
They certainly cannot justly use their harangues of “realistic politics” and “fighting against terrorism”, about Israel as ”the Middle East’s only democracy” and that the sulky Arafat can blame only himself since he neglected to accept the chances to create a country of his own, when he rejected Bill Clintons initiative in January 2001 at Camp David.
More than this has also happened. What we see is a mixture of military superiority, racism, theocracy and fascism.”… - Staffan Heimersson

This chronicle is published at the same time as the same paper gladly pumps out the lies and distortions from Jenin, handfed by the ISM extremist Andreas Malm to TT. Being “superior” – what does that mean in this context? That Israel should be nice to enemies who have sworn to destroy them? “Racist”? People of every nationality, ethnicity, color of skin and religion can be found within the Israeli society, including Jews who voluntary have come or fled to Israel to escape persecution in other countries. A whole lot of them were rescued by previous Israeli government actions. “Theocracy”? Iran with its nuclear ambitions is a theocratic country with is ayatollahs ruling the country from their elevated positions. In Israel the orthodox rabbis are in a minority position of perhaps ruling the synagogues and preaching the Ten Commandments. ”Fascists”? The Arab/Muslim world combined has with force ethnically cleansed out most other minorities within their realms, minorities who in thousands flee from their oppressive regimes yearly.
Not a single word about condemning the Arab/Muslim terrorism.

…“Ariel Sharon belongs together with other criminals in history
Israel’s prime minister, Ariel Sharon, does not only belong to the political history but also in a higher degree to the criminal history. He defies the UN resolutions that demand that Israel should leave the occupied territories, and instead lets his occupational army murder, injure, ruin, destroy.”…
- Rolf Alsing

Again, the object of hate seems to be the elected leader who doesn’t willingly allow his people to be slaughtered accordingly to the terrorists’ wishes, and added to this inflaming adjectives and outright lies in order to spice it all up. The conclusion we are being led to here is that democratic leaders belong in jail, while terrorists don’t.
Not a single word about condemning the Arab/Muslim terrorism.

…“In Sharon Bush has found the perfect partner. Bush combats terror. Sharon generates terror. Terror experts concluded already this autumn that perhaps the most dangerous threat against the terrorist war would be if there weren’t to be any more attacks.
Sharon has cleared that threat. Sharon generates tinned suicide bombers. Sharon’s genocidal murder politics against the Palestinians can’t even be thought of as something else than a subsidiary affiliation to the Global War Against Terror.”… - Carl Hamilton

This is a perverse and completely reverse way of guilt reasoning where the victims of terror are being blamed for their own death. Did perhaps Barak also create suicide bombers prior to Sharon, when offering 97% of the disputed areas, and only received terror as response? Just like all previous Israeli leaders trying to reason with the PLO officials, who all received the same kind of response. With the same kind of distorted logic one could also blame the Jews prior to the Second World War for the creation of Waffen SS.
Not a single word about condemning the Arab/Muslim terrorism.

“At Corsica ‘terrorism’ pays off
Sometimes so-called terror can be profitable
…
Therefore, of course, the struggle must continue in Palestine and all free people should do what they can to support and encourage the struggle against the illegal Israeli occupation.” - Herman Lindqvist

This conclusion from the recognized historian and author Herman Lindqvist is truly astounding, not to mention that it could be regarded as a direct incitement to terror. With his own twisted “logic” the editors’ office at AB should therefore be considered a legitimate bomb target for anyone who would get the idea that this paper conducts media occupation, while hiding in their well armored and fortified news desk bunkers. Or perhaps terror doesn’t pay off during circumstances such as these?
Not a single word about condemning the Arab/Muslim terrorism.

…“Israel occupies with total military superiority Palestinian territory with the appearance of unlimited military support from the USA. The occupied, oppressed and humiliated gets the blame, unique in occupational history.
In American media there is no occupation, only Palestinian terrorists. Homeless Palestinian families whose houses and gardens have been destroyed practically don’t exist in mass distributed American news.
The Palestinian youth has no future and some claim that they might as well just die as martyrs. Arafat is made powerless and at the same time he gets blamed for all Palestinian deeds. Logic usually doesn’t belong to real politics. 17 of the EU projects for the Palestinians have been destroyed by Israeli military.” - Gunnar Fredriksson

Once again it’s clear to see that those who should be blamed (in AB’s opinion) are the ones who defend themselves against the terror aggression, all the while the aggressors get the sympathy and are absolved. It could be compared to the same pattern a defense lawyer would take with the client(-s) charged with sexual predation against the victim of a gang rape, where the victim would have no one to blame but herself since she was wearing a short skirt.
Not a single word about condemning the Arab/Muslim terrorism.

“The new Israelis: Immigrated Russians

Is Israel a democracy? A simple comment would be: Ask the Palestinians!
The Sharon government was elected with a large majority and his politics has according to the latest opinion polls support by 72 per cent . A large part of the opposition even wants more hard-line politics. Why does a democracy support the ongoing brutality?”… - Gunnar Fredriksson

Why is the former nationality of the Jews of such great interest? Take a good look at how Sweden has handled the Jewish asylum seekers from Russia. (They were sometimes refused and told that they can go to Israel instead.) And how would a fictional chronicle named ”The new Swedes, immigrated Arabs” be perceived in the Swedish media? Where Arabic asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants instead are collectively labeled as “settlers” on Swedish soil and blamed for abusing the welfare system, at the expense of the “native” tax paying Swedes? A hypothetical article like that would without hesitation instantly be judged as prejudicial and xenophobic, but when it comes to Israel’s absorption policy and laws concerning immigrating Jews, who often have fled from persecutions – the rules are very different indeed. But sure, one could ask the Arabs what they think about democracy, and why not begin within their own dictatorships first, try with the few that dare to speak up, that would surely make it more interesting. Like the founder of Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG ) Bassem Eid, put under house arrest by the PLO, and who claims he has to follow the Israeli media in order to keep up with what’s going on within his own society. In an openhearted interview on Channel 8 on the show Global Axess a rerun was aired on April 21, 2004, where the reporter Thomas Gür conducted the interview. That Eid thought that there was not even the slightest freedom of press and that Yassir Arafat’s PLO is corrupted, and that PA tortures and kills its own people in the style of a gangster organization, was obvious and beyond any doubt.

“Terrorism – a “huge success” for Israel

Violence pays. Terrorism works. If you murder enough people with enough ruthlessness and during long enough time, one wins. One gets accepted and respected, gets a country of its own, one becomes prime minister and gets to drink coffee with the president of the USA at Camp David. Look at Israel and its leader.”… - Liza Marklund

The writer is a famous and (in Sweden) well-known author of crime novels, who once more shows that she is gifted with a large portion of imagination. However, in the area of basic historical knowledge she doesn’t seem to be particularly gifted. Israel was not “given” anything by the UN, which she so ignorantly claims. They Jews worked for their land with blood, sweat and tears, and they were also overcharged by the Arab effendis in the cities, who in turn got very rich during the 70 years before the independence of the State of Israel was proclaimed. The UN’s sole contribution was a majority vote of its member countries in order to accept Israel’s declaration of independence as being declared legitimate, when the British left, after their mandate term expired. Marklund also pumps out distortions of alleged Israeli war crimes.
Not a single word about condemning the Arab/Muslim terrorism.

She also, in the same chronicle, states:

“From Björn Kumm's book, “History of Terrorism” I quickly fetch the following fact: The first terrorists in the Middle East were Jewish nationalists.”

OK. Then in chapter terrorism have a look, and to take a closer look at what Kumm states as being “facts”.

…“There will never be a positive development as long as the USA supports the Israeli occupation and apartheid politics towards the Palestinians. That the Palestinians, since Israel’s establishment 1948, had to carry the burden of the European Jew persecutions is the most central question when it comes to the relations between the Muslim world and the West. Few in the USA seem, strangely enough, to understand what the expulsion of a couple of millions Palestinians from their homeland and thereafter daily humiliation for decades have meant. Israel constantly breaks international agreements and is well equipped with weapons of mass destruction.”… - Gunnar Fredriksson

Plain and simple history fabrication being published. First of all, it wasn’t “a couple of millions”, secondly, the newborn State of Israel urged its Arab inhabitants to stay. Thirdly the surrounding Arab leaderships urged the Arabs to get out of the way. And the USA gets blamed for supporting the only democracy in the Middle East.
Not a single word about condemning the Arab/Muslim terrorism.

“Sharon’s regime contributes to extreme Islamism

It is important to separate between anti-Semitism and political criticism against the government of Israel. But the claim that it is almost the same thing has for long been used as a polemic weapon by Israeli government interests, and even by Swedes. It is now being used as a method to try and stop criticism against the military occupation, the breakdown of Palestinian society, the apartheid politics and daily humiliations against Palestinians. Such an Israeli state is not a democracy.”… - Gunnar Fredriksson

It’s Israel’s fault of course. Again. Yet another accusation of the apartheid politics, which seems to be an ongoing theme in AB. And why not blame the current Israeli prime minister for a 1400-year ongoing fundamentalist Islamic feudal medieval phenomenon? It has – of course – nothing to do whatsoever with the European inherited tradition of blaming the Jews for every bird that falls from the sky. Legitimate Israel criticism? Hardly. What we see here is the good old classical “I don’t’ hate the Jews BUT… (always the but)”, the kind of distorted previous alibi attempts where the author first claims that he actually knows the difference between legitimate criticism of the Jewish state and anti-Semitism, and then goes on slandering with ramblings that this particular state is certainly not a democracy after all, while Israel keeps defending itself from terrorists who for the last 80 years or so have proclaimed a never ending Holy War against the Jewish “infidels”.
Not a single word about condemning the Arab/Muslim terrorism.

“In every third TV-show and every second paper there is quarrel between the Jewish left, which dominates the entertainment business and media, and the Christian right-wing which dominates everything else. The absurdity is that they quarrel about “facts”. As if anything in the Bible could even be considered being facts!
…
But then, who killed Jesus? The Jewish elitist priest in the Temple, not common Jews, and he just let it happen, that was the whole point. Jesus had a death wish. But that’s just my interpretation, and am certainly no theologian.”…
- Fredrik Virtanen

So, the entertainment editor finishes by fortifying and securing his own ignorance on issues he obviously doesn’t even have a beginner’s clue about. These statements came alongside the Hollywood produced movie “The Passion of Christ” by the actor/director Mel Gibson. Although Virtanen at first strengthens the classical anti-Semitic myth which still to this day is nursed by Nazis and Islamists, that the “Jewish left, which dominates the entertainment business and media” at a left-wing paper where he himself is employed, in order to really emphasize his latter thesis, he first claims that nothing in the Bible can be regarded as facts, and after doing so he comes to the brilliant conclusion that a vile anti-Semitic tale, that through history has been a repeated incitement to pogroms and persecution against Jews, the Jewish leader in form of the “elitist priest”, still is the one responsible for the murder of Jesus. What references he uses for this conclusion the readers are not told, since he already has rejected the Bible as the source for his own thesis. Even DN had the decency to have it translated and ran an honest essay on this subject by Stan Schwartz.

There is still an ongoing and recurring pattern here:
There is not a single word about condemning the Arab/Muslim terrorism!

Jan Guillou

Jan Guillou, President of the Association of Journalists and Publishers, with some five thousand members, is a recurrent columnist in Aftonbladet. He is also one of Sweden’s bestselling modern authors and made his fame in the 1970’s when he revealed that the Swedish police were “spying” on its own citizens. He was found guilty of “unlawful intelligence activities” against the Swedish military. In his chronicles in Aftonbladet Guillou happily takes any opportunity to slander Israel and the USA.

He was one of the co-writers of the Swedish book Inshallah where he, and a number of likeminded journalists, described their personal views and opinions on Israel. He has an entire chapter devoted to himself, where his main claim is that friends of Israel use the anti-Semitic accusations time and time again for no good reason. In this particular chapter it becomes clear that he doesn’t like the non-Jewish Swedish PhD Henrik Bachner, who is clumped together with all the others Guillou doesn’t like, as being “anti-intellectual propagandists”. He obviously thinks that there was something fishy about Bachner’s dissertation. “The dissertation in Lund may be a joke, that it was approved of might be explained with the fact that the opposing scientist was the chairman of the Swedish Committee Against anti-Semitism, in other words a brother in arms,”. It should now be clear that Guillou doesn’t even begin to comprehend how a higher educational dissertation thesis is conducted, with the highest available expertise present as opponents.

Yet, in the same chapter he gladly writes about his own memories of the Munich massacre at the Olympic Games in 1972, which he refers to as a “change of trends”, on page 405 (in the paperback edition), stated as an example of Guillou’s skills as an author (of fact proven history):

“The East German border police lost control over the situation and shot all Palestinians and Israelis dead. In the media it looked as if the Palestinians had murdered as well as the Israelis themselves.”

In this context, it’s time to quote Guillou only a couple of pages earlier, where he self-confidently boasts about the memories of the good old happy days in the Swedish Palestine Groups: “nothing is so ingratiating as when the opponent in a debate is lying and denies obvious and proven facts”.

At the Olympic massacre, which Guillou just “altered” the history of, terrorists would forever darken the memory of nations coming together during peaceful events, when masked Arabs at gunpoint kidnapped the Israeli Olympics team in order to use them for blackmail and extortion against the state of Israel. Perhaps Guillou is of the opinion that the unarmed wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and the heavy weight lifter Joseph Roman shot themselves in the face as well as in the back? And that they did so as they tried to stop the terrorists from entering the Israeli Olympics quarters? Guillou should know the answer to this as a self-proclaimed gun expert, and with his own previous hunting show at TV (he even paid Eskimos to go hunt polar bears with him, but when the adventurer Göran Kropp later shot one in self-defense he wrote an angry column about it, raging about the “bear murderer”). Guillou usually, in his books with the made-up agent Carl Hamilton (who in Guillou’s world of fiction works with PLO against the Israeli “state terrorists”) opens the story by describing graphic and detailed murders. Or perhaps he meant that it was the East German border police who tossed in the hand grenades, into the terrorists’ escape chopper where the remaining Israeli Olympic athletes were held, bound to hands and feet, before blowing them to smithereens?
German police “shot all dead”? The surviving three terrorists were later extradited by the German government who gave in to terrorist threats from to the Arab world a couple of weeks later, when Arabs yet again took new hostages and threatened once again to murder innocent people.

Sometimes it almost seems like a parody. Guillou claimed that the 12 year old boy Muhammad al-Dura of course was shot by Israeli forces, and then attacked his colleague Wolfgang Hansson for “spreading lies at Ahlmark-level” when Hansson reported that children are being used for propaganda purposes by the Arabs. Hansson in turn responded, in the column “Head Priest and Other One-eyed Viewers”. Aftonbladet confirmed two years later that all evidence in the shooting of Muhammad Al-Dura point toward that it was “ricochets” from Arab weapons that killed the boy, and after that, approximately a year later, the paper still runs a report in translation claiming that Israeli forces were responsible for his death.

The “lie at a Ahlmark-level” has to be explained further, since it in fact seems that Guillou doesn’t like Ahlmark and this is his not too mature way of showing it. In a later chronicle he writes “… the most bizarre of the writers in our snooty morning daily now finds it self-evident to seriously argument that the Palestinians on occupied territory should be fenced in…”
This right after Ahlmark had finished a chronicle on the subject, which only concluded the elementary logic, translated in my own words, as subtly as possible, as follows:

Probably even a retarded village fool would understand that the safest way to protect himself against those whose intend to harm him (in this case mass slaughter of Jews), would perhaps be to keep them as far away as possible from their intended targets. If one then picks up a copy of Ahlmark’s Swedish book The Tyranny and the Left there might be some more clues to the discontent. It turns out that Ahlmark has devoted an entire chapter (Chapter no 16) to Guillou’s merrier days of his youth and even quoted his own words in a men’s magazine, from an article by him that was published in 1969. In this article, Ahlmark reminds the readers of how Guillou, together with armed Arab terrorists in northern Israel, at night under the cover of darkness, were booby trapping roads around Jewish civilian communities, in order to later – at a safe distance of course – proudly watch the bombs go off. Guillou himself describes this in his own words. But this has probably nothing to do with anti-Semitism. At least not if Guillou has anything to say about it. Or the fact that the Swedish Security Police during the 1970’s took a closer look at him and his comrades’ activities.

Of course Ahlmark’s very name can make some of the journalists in AB fume as well as foam at the mouth and get off in ranting and irrational outbursts in the form of chronicles, seemingly detached from any logic or fact. ”Regardless of either Ahlmark should feel lonely, because an extreme message such as his should not be able to attract many people’s attention.” was one jealous comment on his latest book: It’s the Democracy, Stupid!

“Guillou can’t know what the security police wrote” about him in his file, the evening paper Expressen reports. At first Guillou is not particularly welcome in the United States allegedly because of what the Swedish Security Police have written in their secret files about him. Perhaps it also has to do with what he publicly stated on why he wasn’t willing to honor the minute of silence for the innocent terrorist victims after the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and left in protest when the memorial was being held. Then he publicly accused the Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad’s book, “The Book Dealer in Kabul” in which she wrote of her experiences in Afghanistan as a news correspondent before she went to the frontline during the war in Iraq, as “an invention from beginning to end.” (Later Seierstad’s book passed Guillou’s own in the sales list.) Guillou’s first book, “The Evil” which became a huge success, claims to be based on his own upbringing at experiences from boarding school and the penalizing system he allegedly was subjected to there.
Guillou had written the following statement about another book that he actually liked:

…“Literature is more or less made up. If it is so then the proportion is one-tenth make belief and nine-tenths fact and it becomes literature. Journalism is truthful. It is that simple and then the students at philosophical seminars can say whatever they like about the truth. We journalists know what truth is.”… - Jan Guillou

If one continues to read an interview in Metro it also becomes clear that Guillou “hates” the evening paper Expressen. What makes an investigative journalist hate an evening paper then? To find out, let’s read that very paper. In a number of articles Guillou is mentioned with the following headlines:

August 18, 2003 “Teacher: “Guillou was a nightmare”
August 26, 2003 “Fellow students’ criticism”
August 26, 2003 “Fellow students: “Jan Guillou is lying”
November 2, 2003 “My son is lying about “The Evil.’”
November 6, 2003 “Guillou leaves the Publicists Club.”

Although his art teacher claims that Guillou was “a nightmare”, his schoolmates testify that he is lying about the school system in general, and his allegations about the penalizing system in particular. He also claimed that his schoolmates were jealous of him and his success, since he claimed to be “the only one to become successful” after school. This is debunked by the fact that his former classmates are described thus: “Four are corporate managers, one is chief of the Baltic office at the World Bank in New York, one is a four star colonel, one is a general director, one a PhD in technology and several others are lawyers” according to Expressen.

Even Guillou’s own mother, reported to be sound of mind at the age of 81, claims in an interview for the first time, that: “It’s terrible that Jan escapes like this into his fantasy world. He did that already as a child. Jan has always had trouble separating fantasy from reality“. Who is to be believed? Guillou himself or his own mother? It seems that Guillou doesn’t really like truthful news or investigative journalism after all, at least not if he himself is the object of investigation. And this man has been one of Sweden’s most famous authors and writers for decades.

Helle Klein

Political editor-in-chief. Lutheran theologian of Jewish origin.

“Keep going, Freivalds

“Stop the wall now!” 105 Swedes demand in an urgent call in Saturday’s issue of Aftonbladet. It was a protest against the wall that Israel is building in the West Bank. Archbishop KG Hammar, former SSU chairman Mikael Damberg, Dror Feiler for Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, the Green party’s Gustaf Fridolin, author Anders Ehnemark, and LO [union] investigator Örjan Nyström are some of the signatories.
It would be excellent if the Middle East could have a wider public commitment here at home, just as the south Africa question once gathered citizens from right to left, from churches, the political establishment and the business world.“ - Helle Klein

Klein has obviously come to the conclusion that Israel, which has already tried most suggestions, should not have the right to defend itself from threats coming from the areas where terrorists are located. She evidently joins the group and keeps cheering to the tune of the new Swedish foreign minister. She doesn’t understand that a fence is a temporary and un-bloody solution.
Yes, its possible that a fence might cause problems for Arabs wishing to go to Israel for various reasons, and that some of them without a doubt have the intention of killing as many civilian Jews as possible. The fence can be dismantled as soon as there is no need for it anymore. However, dead Jews cannot come back to life. So what about a public statement and urgent call sounding like this instead: “stop the terror!”? With the direct focus, of course, aimed at the Arab Muslim terrorism, which has struck almost on all continents around the globe during the new millennium? But such an idea is obviously not conceivable and it’s definitely not something Klein and her ilk would ever even consider writing about.

She looks cornered after having made an utter fool of herself, but she can’t have much to say in her defense to this because so far the only excuse has been that she is viciously being slandered because of her sex. (!) Of course, her brother in arms, Jan Guillou usually comes to the rescue on his white horse and shining armor in situations like these, and writing in a commanding tone, he points out that her great grandfather in fact was a Rabbi (as if this would explain her behavior and be OK to use as an alibi) – “Although it is humiliating having to accept the turnaround burden of proof with or without a great granddad who was a Chief Rabbi.” This is used as an excuse for what she herself later writes in her rabid Israel criticism. Perhaps Guillou doesn’t know his colleague as well as the thinks? From a published online chat at AB comes the following:

Stina says: Are you a priest?
Helle Klein says: No am not ordained, but I am a graduate in theology. I have in other words a priest education from the university of Lund. I thought of becoming a priest.

It’s rather safe to conclude that she obviously renounces her Jewish origins, and never mind what or who her grandfather was. What she had written at this specific time, what Guillou was trying to defend, was an editorial with the headline reading “The Crucified Arafat”, a choice of terminology that according to both of them has nothing whatsoever to do with any so called classical anti-Semitism. Is it just a mere coincidence that an age-old and well-known accusation of Jews crucifying Jesus, is used once again, an accusation which has worked as a starting signal for Jew persecutions and pogroms in Europe during the last 2000 years? This Freudian slip was even noticed outside Swedish duck-pond in the first suppressed EU report as “a reference to one of the most well-known anti-Semitic myths.”

Guillou accuses Israel of apartheid May 18, 1998.
So does Klein May 12, 2003.
So does Olle Svenning, when quoting Hammarberg’s Palme Center prizewinner, the Holocaust denier Hanan Ashrawi on January 30, 2003.
Klein then went on, in a frenzy, in April 2004 and wrote four anti-Israeli columns in a row. In order to get a grasp of what kind of importance a political editor-in-chief of the largest evening paper with this ancestral history has, one only has to look at the salary. Klein’s monthly paycheck is larger than the ruling Swedish prime minister.

March 29 - “Best weapon against terrorists: Peace”
That didn’t work with Hitler, and it obviously didn’t work with Arafat either.
April 4 - “The Church have hopes for the Palestine campaign”
Hopeful when it comes to boycotting Jewish victims of terrorism instead of the Muslim Arab terrorists who commit the atrocities should perhaps not be something to be proud of and to brag about in a sane world.
April 12 - “Darkness falls over the Middle East”

“Hebron was once a lively commercial centre, the most important larger city in the West Bank”

But when was this, according to Klein? Conveniently no time period is presented and no additional information on this is provided. Lets check the previous travel journals from the church representatives that Klein seems so fond of. A Swedish vicar Nordlander (1899) describes thoroughly in his journals how the Jews are restoring the land, with water ponds and by hand crushing and carrying dirt to the valley terraces with fresh soil in order to plant grapes for wine producing, just like in the days of Jesus. About the “commercial centre” one can read:

“At present its population amounts to eleven to twelve thousand persons, with nine mosques and two synagogues. The streets are narrow and filthy; the houses are made from stone with flat roofs, and with small cupolas. The industry here is, as in Bethlehem, rather vivid. The production consists mostly of glasswork such as lamps, motley and partly colored rings to wives and girls. These rings find their way further into the desert. And they are cheap. For two piasters one gets one hundred arm rings. Leather bottles, beautifully crafted and strong, are made in great numbers, and the Jews, six to seven hundred of them, produce raisin, wine, dibs or grape syrup and, as already mentioned, the grapes here as well as the figs, pomegranates, pistachios and olives – are the most delicious in the whole land.”

And about the tomb of Abraham in Hebron he writes:

“But the fanatical Mohammedans guard this grave more carefully than they do David’s tomb. Not one single Jew or Christian has set foot on this site, not until the successor to the English throne in 1862, after tremendous negotiations pains and annoyance, was allowed to enter with his escort.”

Another Swedish Christian traveler, Nathanael Beskow, had similar observations in 1926:

“Hebronites are famous for being the most fanatical Mohammedans in Palestine, and very hostile to strangers.”

Or was it perhaps in 1929 Helle Klein was thinking of, when Arabs ethnically cleansed the city from Jews through mass murder in the form of pogroms, chasing off the few surviving Jews who had to flee for their lives, while the Arabs looted and stole their property? Or when Jordan once again ethnically cleansed the area of Jews, and then illegally and against international law for two decades between 1948 and until 1967 occupied the territory? Was it when it was strictly prohibited for Jews to live there – when there was real Arabic apartheid?

April 19, 2004 “An apartheid state is being created.” Just another example, of the tiresome apartheid accusation, a recurring theme in the editorials, especially after the history of Hebron and the settlers. So, what is apartheid? It means literally “segregation”. Read on:

Main Entry: apart·heid
Pronunciation: &-'pär-"tAt, -"tIt
Function: noun
Etymology: Afrikaans, from Dutch, from apart apart + -heid -hood
1 : racial segregation; specifically : a policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of So. Africa
2 : SEPARATION, SEGREGATION

Per Ahlmark had already debunked this slandering distortion 34 years earlier. Perhaps the political editor-in-chief Klein and her colleagues could ask for a copy of her own uncle and co-author Ernst Klein, of the book “The Hated Israel” from 1970? In this book one can read in the part, where comparing Israel with former South Africa on page 156 to 160, that “few parallels can be more false”. A quickly rewritten summary, which was already claimed then, still stands:

• Israel is a democracy with voting rights for all its citizens.
South Africa was a police state where the majority wasn’t allowed to vote.
• Israel has freedom of Parliament.
South Africa critics and opponents were jailed, tortured and killed.
• Israel nurtures equal rights and fights against class-distinction.
South Africa’s white minority government used the black majority for personal gain.
• Israel is constantly pledging for negotiations with its opponents.
South Africa refused to speak with the liberation movements.
• Israel was accepted by a majority of nations after a UN vote.
For example, Rhodesia’s governing authority proclaimed its own authority, which was rejected by the UN who refused to acknowledge the state.
• Israel has freedom of press and any politicians and journalists can visit and freely contact enemies of the state of Israel (which they still do).
South Africa was closed to plenty of journalists and vast areas of the country were totally sealed off to any visitors.
• Israel was formed by Jews living in the land, as a safe haven after the European genocide of the Jews.
South Africa was formed after Europeans moved there, not to escape persecutions, but in order colonize foreign land with which they had no previous historic or religious connection.
• Israel’s Jews systematic restoration work on the previously destroyed region was performed by immigrants who bought the land they later cultivated.
South Africa colonizers used the land’s minerals to gain personal wealth and used the black majority as an enslaved workforce.

“The extremists have taken over on both sides” it was claimed already back then, in the 1970, when Israel had had a social democratic governing, after recurring democratic elections, where the few extremist such as communists or religious fanatics only managed to get a fraction of the votes. In South Africa the apartheid politics were being constructed step-by-step, a police state successively being imposed, and strong opponents of Africans and liberals seized power and legislation with force. Now, if one exchanges “South Africa” with “the Palestinian Authority” as of today instead, one gets closer to the truth of whom it is promoting apartheid rulership in the beginning of the new millennium.

Another interesting fact about this book, as Per Gahrton maliciously noted, is that the other co-author was Thomas Hammarberg, who later found his way to the Palme Center. What did he write in this book? Well, one chapter is named “Al Fatah [Arafats own party branch] and the Jews”, and the chapter starts with Hammarberg quoting:

“’Our goal is to liberate Palestine from the Zionist oppression. It cannot be done with peaceful means. We struggle towards creating instability, panic and economical chaos inside Israel. We want to stop the immigration. A fire of revolution will also be created inside Israel itself.’
Thus concludes Yonis Katari, one of the spokespersons for the PLO, regarding their movement’s goal and their strategy.”

Some 30 years after Hammarberg wrote this, the foundation he headed, handed out the prize to Holocaust denier Ashrawi of PLO, while Fatah was fulfilling just that specific goal strategy within Israel, the one promising to create mayhem and havoc inside Israeli cities with mass-murdered and maimed Jewish civilian victims as a result.

But not only are Arabs expected to continue to live in Israel and in the disputed areas, all their relatives and all their descendants who have never set foot in the state of Israel, and who are the only ones in the world that inherits their status as refugees generation after generation, but also expect to have full rights of “return”. This is what they expect, after generations of grotesque indoctrination in camps, learning to hate Jews and being drilled for the ultimate destruction of Israel, while Jews in the Diaspora who return to Israel are being labeled as foreign immigrants. What these critics mainly complain about is first that Arabs shall have the right of return, but Jews who wish to do the same are instantly labeled as “settlers”. The few Jews living in the disputed areas after the previous Arab ethnic cleansing and illegal occupation are called “settlers” – never mind if they have been there for generations. Then an Arab state shall be imposed, the 23rd Arab state in the Middle East, where Jews might perhaps be allowed live under Arab rule, which so far has been only proven to be equal to corrupt dictatorship that openly praises Jew murder. Such a state would, especially after the recent decade of Arab Muslim terrorist atrocities, only be regarded as one huge prize in honor of terrorism. And it would send a clear signal to other terrorists around the world that terrorism pays off. This becomes more and more Kafkaesque, as when Kafka meets Alice in Wonderland with Aftonbladet’s illogical distortions, where the land of Judea obviously, at least to Israel critics, serves better as an Arab apartheid regime closed to unwanted Jewish “settlers”.

Aftonbladet is foremost, at least among the more educated Swedish Jews with some self-preservation left, known as a platform for rabid Israel criticism (be the critics of Jewish heritage or not) where the critics can have their undisputed and unchallenged arena, spewing forth their hatred without having to take any responsibility for the consequences or follow the ethical codes for the press, as they are getting paid plenty to produce this kind of rubbish. The Jerusalem University and the non-Jewish PhD in anti-Semitism, Henrik Bachner, has produced several case studies on this particular paper’s writings with clear traces of anti-Semitism over the recent decades.

Yet another comprehensive scientific study emerged in the form of a report from Uppsala University’s Department of Media and Communication, which concluded the quantity of statistics from a collection of an impressive 103 editorials, from Aftonbladet and SvD’s chronicles during a time period of four years between 2000 and 2004. Some sad facts as the conclusion states:

“The text analysis showed that the usage if certain anti-Semitic stereotypes now and then are expressed as criticism against Israel. This happens only at editorial space in Aftonbladet. The stereotypes that occur are the image of the Jew as a cruel and ruthless murderer, Christ killer and as being dishonest and unreliable, the so-called Judas portrait. “

But perhaps the best self evident illustration of this paper’s anti-Israel stance was when AB translated a Hamas leader’s speech, without any explanatory comments at all, into Swedish, bearing the headline Hamas wants peace [sic!] , thereby legitimizing sought after terrorist leaders (where the political characters states “kill… Jews”) by providing for such terrorists an arena for their distorted world views, on the very day another bomb explodes at the market in Carmel square in Tel Aviv resulting in three dead and 38 injured, for which PLFP claimed the “credit“, the latter being the same organization that the chairman of the Swedish Left’s youth party previously had urged the public to fund, going against international law.

There is a handful of Jews in Sweden who after recurring words and actions are given media space, but their words cannot be taken as being representative for the majority of the Diaspora Jews or the Jews within their own society, unless their official spokespersons, for example the Jewish council, backs it up.

Helle Klein and her colleagues might speak for Aftonbladet. However, none of them speaks for me or my Jewish heritage, the Diaspora or for Zionism.

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Terrorist Terminology

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The major Swedish News agency feeder is TT, who most certainly deserves a chapter of its own as they, to a large extent, bears the responsibility for the biased information flow in Sweden against Israel. Compared to other conflicts one is struck by the absurdity of choices made with regards to terminology. TT is the agency most other journalists in Swedish media use for daily updates, mainly because they have a news subscription feeding service as well as monopoly. When it comes to Israel the actual word “terror” seems to be have been banned in most cases, at least when the victims are Israeli Jews. On the other hand, Israel is often portrayed with subtle insinuations, or quoted by Arab leaders and others to use “state terrorism”. It’s hard to keep track on which of the journalists write what, since they almost never sign their names, and TT only is given credit.

And what seems even stranger, but fact remains that depending on which country TT is writing about, there is a clear and visible difference in the reporting. Perhaps the most obvious example was just a week before Spain became the scene of the largest terrorist attack in post-war European history, and terrorist bombs once again were set off in Israel. What can be read below is from the Yahoo Swedish news site (now shut down), TT news feed. Five telegrams about this were headlined as follows:

“Several dead in suspected suicide deed” Sunday March 14, 2004 16:45
“Several dead in suicide deed” Sunday March 14, 2004 17:21
“Teen dead in double suicide deed” Sunday March 14, 2004 17:43
“Double suicide deeds in Israel” Sunday March 14, 2004 19:23
“Top meeting canceled after bomb deed” Sunday March 14, 2004 20:55

None of these headlines contains any words describing the attack as being a terrorist attack. This is an observed pattern especially designed for Europe. They all talk of “suicide bombs” and “explosions” but not one of the five news telegrams contained the word “terror” or anything similar to it. 10 Israeli civilian workers in the harbor of Ashdod were not “killed” as stated in the telegrams; they were actually murdered by two 17-year-old Arab homicide bombers, who just performed a terrorist attack resulting in mass murder. But this is a language that seems forbidden to use by TT. But for some reason only with regards to Israel, because when the bombings in Madrid, Spain occurred only a week later, all the telegrams instantly used other adjectives when describing what had happened, and now they also clearly spoke of “terrorism”, “terrorist acts” and “terrorist attacks”. It’s also a charade of absurd terms being applied when the story concerns Israel. And there is a clear and visible pattern:

1. Humane (Muslim) Arabs, and anonymous (Jewish) Israelis
2. Obvious pairs in rhetoric
3. Violence against Israelis described as spectacular events, and sometimes the deed is romanticized
4. One-sided reporting
5. Facts tuned down

Just one, of many recurring, example of the previous stated points 1-5 above

“Friday February 27, 2004, 21:49
Two civilian Israelis shot dead
JERUSALEM. Two civilian Israelis was shot dead late Friday evening by Palestinians who opened fire from a car near the so called green line which separates Israel from the West Bank. The event happened not far from the Jewish settlement Eshkolot, two miles southwest of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank.”

There are two major changes from the usual TT modus operandi with this news report, the first one being that it’s mentioned at all, since “smaller incidents” like this one, when Israelis are the victims sometimes aren’t mentioned at all (only the later Israeli response, where the Israelis are then being described as “instigating the spiral of violence”), secondly that it actually states that the victims (even though they aren’t explicitly called exactly that; murder victims) actually were civilians. But apart from that, this is all the news consumers are told. No names, no gender or age of the victims, the usual “settler” insinuation, but apart from that, nothing. However, the murder victims were noticed all over the Israeli media, just a computer click away, where it immediately was clear that the murdered couple had been traveling in their car when the car was sprayed with machine gun bullets, which at first stopped the car, whereupon the attackers rushed forward and shot the driver dead as well as the passenger at point blank range, in the heads – execution style. The couple, 29 and 30 years old respectively, was murdered at the roadside. They left a 2-year-old child orphaned. The slaughtered mother was five months pregnant.

When someone deliberately uses some kind of weapon (in this case a machine gun) and runs amok assaulting innocent traveling civilians who happen to be passing by, the (domestic) press usually tends to write, “act of insanity”, “terror attack”, or “massacre” in large letters all over the tabloids, at least the few times something like this has happened in Sweden. Then imagine having to live in a society where one is afraid of taking the children to school with the car, or just to go shopping at the mall or the supermarket for fear of being killed by some fundamental maniac shouting Allah akhbar (God is great) just before pulling the trigger. This is what the average Israelis have to endure as they go on with their daily life, a life in terror. Lets compare it with the news just the day after (the Israeli response) and how the news is presented when the Arab terrorists behind such atrocities get eliminated.

“Palestinians die in helicopter attack” March 28, 2004, 19:52
“The identity of the victims wasn’t instantly known” March 28, 2004, 18:40

“Saturday February 28, 2004, 20:47
Palestinian leader killed in air attack
GAZA. Three Palestinians were killed Saturday when an Israeli attack helicopter discharged three robots against a car near Gaza city. It was Israel’s first targeted liquidation of militant Palestinians in nearly two months. One of the victims was the 30-year-old Mahmud Jhouda, one of the top leaders of the Al-Quds brigades. Another member of Islamic Jihad was killed as well as third Palestinian who had no connection.
According to Palestinian sources the helicopter, supported by a fighter-bomber, discharged its rockets in the urban part of Saftawi. The car that was the target was completely demolished. Several cars and houses in the area were also damaged. According to medical sources eight persons were also injured in the attack.
There were no immediate comments to the event from the Israeli military power.”

From this news message alone, one can curiously enough, find the following:

• 1 – It’s obvious is that the al-Quds (TT just renamed Al-Aqua martyrs brigade) terrorists (already proven beyond reasonable doubt that they were governed directly by Arafat, even if the Swedish press had repeatedly claimed them to be “loosely affiliated”) are working together with the Islamic Jihad terrorists.
• 2 – The eliminated terrorists are not called terrorists anywhere, but instead (militant) “leaders”.
• 3 – The name (Mahmoud Jhouda) and age (30) of the eliminated terrorist is published only two hours after the event – it’s in other words almost immediately known who the “victim” was.
• 4 – The sources of this news are Arab sources only.
• 5 – The Israeli Defense Forces, IDF, are renamed and labeled as a “military power” who with “attack helicopters” supported by “fighter bombers” in an “air attack” “kill” the “leaders” of whom “one not connected” and further “injures eight” and also damage civilian property.

The previous two, now dead, Israeli civilians, by TT’s reporting anonymous victims, were murdered by the same organization, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, who on Friday proudly claimed responsibility for the double homicide, which a day later was reported by TT in several telegrams as “Israel’s first targeted liquidation in two months”.

Stefan Hjertén

The journalist Stefan Hjertén, who has during these years been in charge of the Swedish Middle East desk at the time at TT, was 1982 already in various ways defending the French Holocaust denier and revisionist Robert Faurisson. This was also a testimonial part of Bachner’s book “The Return, anti-Semitism in Sweden after 1945” p. 360-361 (1999). A Swede used a website trying to keep track of some of the recurring patterns of the biased telegrams, between December 2001 and June 2002 and then continued in 2004 and many examples are shown of the clear bias.

Another person well worth mentioning regarding the ongoing TT bias and news falsifications is the authorized Israeli guide Richard Haas, who on a weekly basis for some time now has been producing his own newsletter. As an acknowledged guide in Israel, he of all people surely has some first hand experience and credibility regarding the state of affairs in the land of Israel. Added to that, he also has a background as a Swedish journalist, and has written for DN as one of the first Jerusalem correspondents in Israel. This is one (of many) of his conclusive findings regarding the Swedish TT coverage of the country of Israel :

“In the mistaken belief that Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT) sticks to facts in its news coverage from Israel and the occupied territories, DN and several other Swedish papers reissued a TT-telegram on Sunday morning, a telegram that can be described as a test map on TT’s most practiced ways of distorting news texts. The methodology is largely almost identical with the Soviet propaganda, both during and after the Stalin era. It’s a well know fact that in those days they consequently put together so called cleaned up versions of reality, so that the version fit nicely with the ruling communist party’s so called interests and ‘’momentary truths’”

On one very rare occasion, DN publicly protested when the main editorial columnist Peter Wolodarski obviously felt compelled to publicly ask in the paper:

What does TT mean? TT usually publishes edited telegrams from foreign news agencies. Nothing wrong with that. But the other day TT sent out a re-written text on the former chess player Bobby Fisher, which is so notable that it demands an explanation. Fisher is infamous for his hate against America and his anti-Semitism. After September 11 2001 he said, for example, on a Philippine radio station that the attack on the USA was “fantastic news”, and that he hoped for “the country to be overtaken by the military, and that they would close all synagogues and arrest all Jews”. Fisher has also said that “dirty, crook-nosed, circumcised Jew pigs” control the USA. AFP completes this story correctly by concluding that Fisher has insulted his old fans by his militant anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism. But when will TT translate that into Swedish – because then – not surprisingly the former chess champion is suddenly not questioned with regards to his Jew hate. Oh no, the Swedish readers are told that “Fisher, himself Jewish on his mother’s side, has signed on for his critical stance against Israel” What does TT mean?

This of course prompted TT, in a very rare case I might add, to send out a rather political clarification.

“TT is sorry about the formulation
Peter Wolodarski wondered in Tuesday’s edition of DN why TT has written that the chess player Bobby Fisher has for his critical stance against Israel” In original texts from the news agencies Reuters and AFP however it says that Fisher had spoken in an “anti-Semitic” respectively “anti-Jewish” manner. Our wording was built on uncertainty of what Fisher had actually said, rather than to choose a more vague expression, we reasoned. We shouldn’t have done that.
Mats Johansson.
Editor in Chief, TT”

Or as the Israeli DN journalist veteran Richard Haas concluded at the time in his newsletter:

“Let us look closer at this correction: TT lied to its readers knowingly straight to their faces, and then says, when they have been exposed, that they should not have done that.
But they did.
And they have done it before, and they will do it again in all probability. The summary is then, that they [TT] devote themselves to insidious propaganda alongside the regular news reporting. And if someone at TT is uncertain of facts, they don’t strike these facts, instead they c h a n g e those facts, so that they become a bit more “vague”. In other words, to tamper with facts is OK, as long as the final impression is vague. This is rather serious actually. This has to be brought up in parliament sooner or later. TT angles their news, i.e. some of the editorial staff members sit there, adding and revoking, as they see fit for the moment. They also pretend that TT is an untouchable holy cow in Swedish society. But the product only smells like common cow manure and TT craps all over the society and their consumers. It’s definitely not about normal news delivery any longer.

Just for the TT Middle East desk record, the US state info government had published a list for April , a list about foreign terrorist groups; the third name on that list is the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Continue to chapter, Aftonbladet

The Swedish Journalists

2006-04-06T16:18:00.000-07:00

But who is to guard the guards themselves? Juvenal from the Roman Empire asked himself this question some 2000 years ago, and history hasn’t changed all that much since then. One of the real powers and creator of public opinion in any open modern society is the media, which daily has the chance of shaping the minds of its readers and ordinary citizens. Regarding in what way and how and which of the news are being delivered the University of Göteborg has produced statistics in a study regarding the distribution of the Swedish journalists’ own political beliefs, of those who earn their living by delivering the news to the news consumers.

JMGdata no 1-2000 j – Journalist’s party sympathies

JMGdata’s first number is about the journalist’s party sympathies – the results
are based on the latest journalist survey, Journalist 2000.
The study is a representative poll where questions were answered in November/December 1999, the results are compared to results from JMG’s earlier surveys from the year 1989 and the year 1995.

31% of the journalists sympathize with the Left party.
27% of the journalists sympathize with the Social Democratic party.
10% of the journalists sympathize with the Green party.

In total the left oriented red/green block in Sweden in the year 1999 had 68% of all of the journalists’ sympathies. This is clearly a huge majority compared with the oppositional block, which doesn’t really reflect the numbers compared with the Parliament, where the red/green coalition block held about 50% of the seats. How daily news agencies mirror this, via independent daily news reports, one might as well leave behind and instead look at what actually is being presented in the news and in the personal chronicles which tend to have a great influence in shaping the public opinion.

The ethical codes
Code of Ethics for Press, Radio and Television in Sweden
Issued by Pressens Samarbetsnämnd, 2001

Pressens Samarbetsnämnd is a joint committee founded by the leading media organizations in Sweden; The Newspapers Publishers Association, The Magazine Publishers Association, The Union of Journalists and The National Press Club.

These four organizations are responsible for the charter of the [Swedish] Press Council and the standing instructions for the Press-Ombudsman. They all contribute to the financing of the Press Council and the Office of the Press-Ombudsman.

The concept of self-regulation means that the parties define the ethical and professional guidelines and see to it that these guidelines are respected.

CODE OF ETHICS FOR PRESS, RADIO AND TELEVISION

The press, radio and television shall have the greatest possible degree of freedom, within the framework of the Freedom of the Press Act and the constitutional right of freedom of speech, in order to be able to serve as disseminators of news and as scrutinizers of public affairs. In connection to this however, it is important that the individual is protected from unwarranted suffering as a result of publicity.

Ethics do not consist primarily of the application of a formal set of rules but in the maintenance of a responsible attitude in the exercise of journalistic duties. The code of ethics for press, radio and television is intended to provide support for this attitude.

I. RULES ON PUBLICITY

Provide accurate news
1. The role played by the mass media in society and the confidence of the general public in these media call for accurate and objective news reports.

2. Be critical of news sources. Check facts as carefully as possible in the light of the circumstances even if they have been published earlier. Allow the reader/listener/viewer the possibility of distinguishing between statements of fact and comments.

3. News bills, headlines and introductory sections must be supported by the text.

4. Check the authenticity of pictures. See to it that pictures and graphical illustrations are correct and are not used in a misleading way.

Treat rebuttals generously

5. Factual errors should be corrected when called for. Anyone wishing to rebut a statement shall, if this is legitimate, be given the opportunity to do so. Corrections and rebuttals shall be published promptly in appropriate form, in such a way that they will come to the attention of those who received the original information. It should be noted that a rebuttal does not always call for an editorial comment.

6. Publish without delay critical rulings issued by the Swedish Press Council in cases concerning your own newspaper.

Respect individual privacy

7. Consider carefully any publicity, which could violate the privacy of individuals. Refrain from such publicity unless the public interest obviously demands public scrutiny.

8. Exercise great caution in publishing information about suicide and attempted suicide, particularly with regard to the feelings of relatives and in view of what has been said above concerning the privacy of individuals.

9. Always show the greatest possible consideration for victims of crime and accidents. Consider carefully the question whether to publish names and pictures with regard to the victims and their relatives.

10. Do not emphasize ethnic origin, sex, nationality, occupation, political affiliation, religious persuasion or sexual disposition in the case of the persons concerned if such particulars are not important in the specific context and demeaning.

Exercise care in the use of pictures

11. Whenever appropriate, these rules also apply to pictures.

12. Montage, electronic retouch and captions should be handled in such a way as not to mislead or deceive the reader. Whenever a picture has been altered through montage or retouch this should be stated. This also applies to such material when it is filed in picture libraries.

Listen to each side

13. Offer persons, who are criticized in a factual report, the opportunity to reply instantly to the criticism. Aim at presenting the views of all parties involved. Bear in mind that the sole objective of filing complaints of various kinds with various bodies may be to cause harm to an individual.

14. Remember that, in the eyes of the law, a person suspected of an offence is always presumed innocent until proven guilty. The final outcome of a legal case should be published if it has been previously reported on.

Be cautious in publishing names

15. Give careful consideration to the harmful consequences that might ensue for persons if their names are published. Refrain from publishing names if it might cause harm unless it is obviously in the public interest.

16. In case a person's name is not published, also refrain from publishing a picture of that person or particulars of occupation, title, age, nationality, sex, etc, which would enable identification.

17. Bear in mind that the entire responsibility for publishing names and pictures rests with the publisher.

COMMENTS ON PART I

The Swedish Press Council is primarily responsible for interpreting the concept "good journalistic practice" as far as the press is concerned; in matters not referred to the Press Council, the Press-Ombudsman has this responsibility. It should be noted that the Press Council and the Press-Ombudsman do not deal with possible deviations from the rules in radio or television programmes. The Swedish Broadcasting Commission, appointed by the government, is responsible for monitoring such programmes.

The criticized newspaper will publish the Press Council’s ruling. In addition brief reports will also be published in Pressens Tidning (The Press Journal) and in Journalisten (The Journalist). Subscriptions to the Press Council’s decisions are handled by the Swedish Newspaper Publishers Association (Tidningsutgivarna).

Rulings by the Broadcasting Commission may be ordered from the Commission Secretariat.

Most of the Swedish daily newspapers are attached to and bound by these ethical codes. Jan Guillou, elected president of the Association of Journalists by its 5 200 members, went on a crusade with a suggestion of sharpening the press rules, (at least regarding certain criminal investigative journalism) for a couple of years, and regarding this he stated: “My simple demand is, that what is written in the news should be the truth.”.

When journalists investigate journalists it becomes even more absurd, and especially so when people like Guillou are heading a program on SVT, Mediemagasinet. Since the chancellor of justice had already proved this millennium, that when professionals report obvious incitement and agitation like the examples we’ve seen published in DN, and this had little impact, there isn’t that much left at the disposal for those powerless citizens who criticize the biased journalist propaganda’s ranting monopoly. But in this new era of information technology and the Internet, there was now a new option available, with the possibility of getting the message out, and potentially the whole world – personal and ideological websites.

The Swedish website Mediakritik (Media Criticism) had been operative and run on a private initiative at grass-roots level, where regular readers was able to report what they feel to be biased news reports. Each reported biased news was linked with the option of sending an automated complaint response to the media or the responsible journalist. And many journalists read the criticism. Sometimes the responsible reporters in question acknowledged that they had taken part of the criticism by actually responding with explanations in their own words. This service had now been running for the last couple of years, and it has handled several complaints regarding bias and partial propaganda against Israel. That Israel is a news subject that tends to involve many of the Swedish readers should not come as a surprise, especially when one can see many of the comments exploding in numbers in comparison with other reported news. It’s like opening a can of worms. Much of the criticism tends to go overboard, and the subject changes from time to time, as readers are able comment on the reported bias. What comes to mind is when this happens it is usually deliberate sabotage and this is well known, and the direct result is that the debate about the reported criticism is closed. So the mail option was also removed due to abuse. So far the two most criticized news agencies have been Aftonbladet (AB) and the national news agency TT (Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå) when it comes to reported Israel bias. Not one of these two news agencies have ever responded to any criticism during this time regarding their reported biased news on the topic of Israel.

SVT reports on October 27, 2004 that the Swedish Freedom of Press is ranked 11th in the world. In the earlier years Sweden placed itself on number seven and nine. Other Nordic countries were ranked at first place together with the Netherlands, Switzerland and Slovakia. This news was based on a questionnaire sent out to journalists, lawyers and human rights activists.

Continue to chapter, Terrorist terminology

2004

2006-04-06T15:42:00.000-07:00

ABF learning. In Sweden there exists what is known as a workers’ educational union study organization (ABF) that arranges so called study circles, since 1912. On their homepage the following can be read:

“ABF is Sweden’s largest organization of study circles with 57 member organizations and over 1 million participants annually. ABF activities of today range over extensive areas, from study circles, culture for children, youngsters and adults, to seminars, lectures and society debates on hot topics.”

At ABF a new course has been established in 2004, led by the Swedish Palestine Groups in the capital Stockholm. On the curriculum, which is partly financed and supported by the Swedish unions, one ca read the following:

“The Palestine Question

This study circle wishes to strengthen the arguments for those who wish to act in the Palestine question. The historical background of the conflict is treated as well as the daily issues, international law, the role of EU responsibility and the boycott question. We look at how Israel’s basic ideology, Zionism, can be related to democracy, expansionist politics – and the constant ongoing crimes against international law. Can a Palestinian state live in lasting peace next to a continuous Zionistic Israel? Does current peace plans leave room for a just peace? In co-ordination with the Palestine Groups in Stockholm.
10 study hours, 5 times, fee 100 kr
Thursday 18:00 at the ABF house”

The following single sentence however, should give adequate and revealing hints as to what this class really is all about. “We look at how Israel’s basic ideology, Zionism, can be related to democracy, expansionist politics – and the constant and ongoing crimes against international law.” Microscopic Israel’s “expansionist politics” has in reality so far been to hand back the Sinai desert, which Israel gained control over during a defensive war in 1967, in return for lasting peace. An area that is more than twice the size of Israel today. Anyone with the slightest interest in the political ideology Zionism can pick up a copy of Herzl’s The Jew State, and there is even a good book on the subject in Swedish, written by the former Rabbi in Stockholm, Marcus Ehrenpreis, Selected Writings from 1944, about Herzl’s fate. Or the Anthology on Zionism by Svante Hansson (1972) about the further discovering of the roots of the ideology and how it developed. For poor students there is a free copy in translation available online as well. But what about the constant Arab Muslim terrorism against Zionists – and people in general – and international law all over the globe? That is something not mentioned at the presentation of this specific class. One can, bearing in mind the earlier events that have occurred several times in the streets and public places in Stockholm and elsewhere, wonder if stone throwing and harassment against elderly Jewish survivors from the Holocaust, perpetrated by masked mobs and hooligans, is also part of the curriculum?

In yet another public call in DN the Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders protest against the plans for a new proposed bill that will further endorse homosexual marriage, or “partnerships” as they are called in Sweden. However, subsequently some very prominent leaders for the Swedish Jewish communities, including 39 signatories in total, feel forced to openly protest represented by Rabbi Horden, in a DN article. Included with the signatories is the Stockholm Rabbi Philip Spectre as the first signatory on the following statement:

“Nowhere is it explained that Meir Horden is only the rabbi representing the rather small orthodox part of the Stockholm community. It will further be made clear that Rabbi Horden has not received any consent for signing this call in an official capacity, neither from the orthodox part of the community, nor the community board at large… We wish hereby to make it very clear that Meir Horden only represents himself and not the Jewish communities in Sweden.”

There are no visible similar protests from the Muslims or the Christians groups that were represented by Imam Abdal Haqq Kielan and a number of Christian communities.

Before the conference on genocide that Sweden is arranging and hosting, the Historical Museum in Stockholm contracts the Jewish born Israeli, now Swedish citizen (with emphasis on Jewish born Israeli as it will later turn out) Dror Feiler, to arrange a contribution at the museum. The whole event that eventually turns into a charade is of course preceded with expensive public commercials in order to get as much boost for the exhibit as possible. On the Stockholm subway there are huge posters, the size approximately 2 x 3 meters, portraying the face of, at that time probably for the regular Stockholm commuter, an anonymous smiling woman. It is a nicely arranged portrait photo of a young Muslim woman wearing a hijab, the Muslim headscarf. This is something that is not uncommon in the streets in Swedish society of today, and can in fact often be seen on the subway. On the poster one can read in large print the English “Making A Difference”.
However, what most of the Swedish public at this time didn’t know is that this particular woman is a mass murderer. It was described to the Swedish Jewish community through the Jewish Chronicle in the previous year’s last issue, exactly how she “made a difference” for a group of Jews and Arabs who were out eating family dinner.

…”A Cousin of our friend Danny Koren lost his son at restaurant ‘Maxim’. The boy’s mother was severely injured and lost her parents, her brother and a nephew. The brothers’ other two children are in critical condition; one of them has lost both eyes and sustained brain damage, which yet cannot be determined.
The bomber chose the restaurant’s most frequented area and her bomb belt seemed to have been at head level next to a sitting 10 year old child. Danny’s cousins, the families Almog and Steir is one of the families annihilated by this bomb attack; three generations in each.”…

Then a rapid sequence of events takes place when the exhibit opens, as the art display becomes an international hot potato to handle. The invited guest, the Israeli Ambassador Zvi Mazel, namely literary sees red on January 17 when he recognizes the mass murderess’ picture in the neatly arranged installation, sailing daintily on a ship bearing the name “Snow White” on a sea of blood. The Ambassador protests against what he, according to his later statements, perceives as a glorification of a terrorist. Kristian Berg, who is in charge of the museum, says, when asked if there is political agenda behind the artwork, “No, there is no provocation behind this installation”. The Swedish Foreign Ministry is also upset and “demands an explanation” from the Israeli ambassador, as they claim that it is “unacceptable that artwork is being destroyed”. What the ambassador saw was so called artwork, consisting of a pool filled with red water the color of blood, and a small boat bobbing around. The sail of the boat is the same photo of the smiling terrorist as the large posters in the subway. There is also a poetic text to go with it (which the following media race analyses to pieces), and the whole installation is framed with the classic tunes from Bach’s Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut. The installation is called “Snow White and the Madness of Truth.”.

When these news hit Israel, it takes less than a day for a online protest letter to see the light, gathering almost some 7000 signatories, during the first day only.

The artist, Dror Feiler, later had to change the music to another version, since he downloaded the version he used from the Internet without authorization from the rights owner, who then testified; “I visited Dror Feiler’s "Snow White" installation and was deeply disgusted with it.” The one testifying this is Sweden’s largest classical music record company CEO, who filed police complaints of theft, when quoted in Jerusalem Post “he didn’t even care enough to find out whose recording, with which artists, he had stolen, mutilated and unlawfully exhibited; odd behavior indeed from someone who so vehemently defends his own ‘art’.”
On January 28 the Swedish Radio P2 revealed that Feiler had changed the music to a version with the opera singer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. And like some of the Swedish Jews remember, she was a member of the German Nazi party. She later denounced her membership – but then again, who didn’t?

In the Swedish media blubbering self-proclaimed experts and political commentators and other groups study in detail the installations’ intentions in order to find the right excuses and accusations for editorials against the “arrogance” of the ambassador who had the nerve to criticize a piece of art – art is holy in Sweden – art, which of course didn’t have the slightest intention to be a provocation towards anyone, and particularly not Israelis. It is said, among the Israeli critics, including the artist himself of course, that the ambassador “destroyed art” when he showed his discontent by spontaneously protest against the glorification of the terrorist Hanadi Jaradat by ripping out the one of the electrical cords and overturning one of the spotlights, which then fell into the pool. The art creation however is perceived exactly in the same way, as the ambassador did, as a glorification, by the terrorist attack’s survivors and relatives and the terrorist’s own parents as well, according to Expressen on January 19, 2004.

“JENIN. An art scandal in Sweden is the subject of the day in Jenin, suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat’s hometown in the West Bank.
Her parents are satisfied with the stir – and with the crisis between Sweden and Israel. … “Their ambassador tried to destroy artwork with her picture, so she came into the spotlight again.”

Proud parents

The father says that he is both proud of her bombing – one of the bloodiest terrorist acts during the intifada, that killed 21 Israelis, both Jews and Arabs – and that she once again is serving the Palestinian cause. He wholeheartedly supports suicide bombings as the Palestinians’ only weapon …
I would like to thank the Jewish artist in Sweden that made the beautiful artwork with Hanadi, says the mother Ramah, 53.”

It also seems like the father never heard of civil negotiations as a” weapon“ of choice.
The relatives of the victims, including also the Arab victims’ relatives, claim to be insulted by the art creation.

“The artist exploits our blood

HAIFA. Relatives to the victims of the suicide bombers are deeply upset by the art creation at the Historical Museum in Stockholm.
- The artist exploits our blood, it is repulsive, says Tony Mattar, part owner of the blown up restaurant Maxim, and who lost three family members in the terrorist attack.
36-year-old Tony Mattar, an Israeli Arab from Haifa, is proud of the Israeli ambassador. – He acted like a human being, just like I would have done.

Blown to pieces

Mattar’s uncle and two cousins were blown to pieces when Palestinian Hanadi Jaradat, 29, detonated her bomb in the midst of the crowded restaurant on October 4 last year. Mattar himself was in the kitchen during the explosion – it saved his life.
A small memorial plaque at the entrance of the restaurant honors the murdered. The rebuilt restaurant was far from crowded yesterday evening.
Several of Mattar’s friends were among the 21 killed at Maxim. It’s a popular meeting spot for Jews and Arabs – and this was evidently the reason for the Islamic Jihad to send their bomb carrying murderess exactly to this place.”

If both the Arab victims of the homicidal terror and the murderess’ parents see the installation as a glorification, can it perhaps be so that they actually could be right, and could they possibly have preferential interpretation rights before the collected elite of the Swedish cultural establishment? The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which combats anti-Semitism, organized a protest campaign via email where more than 10 000 protest letters were sent to the Swedish government, a government representative later called it an “email bombing” from Jews all over the world, apparently feeling insulted by it and calling it ”the worst in history”. So while a Swedish government representative childishly complains about “email bombing”, with no human death toll for certain, Israel has for a long time been subjected to attacks with real bombs. The Kafkaesque absurdity of this affair seems limitless. Then some anonymous persons organize their own little “artwork” outside the Israeli embassy, where passers-by can read the graffiti on the concrete barriers outside the entrance (for prevention of car bombs etc.): “Crush the Nazis, liberate Palestine” – illustrated by the symbol of peace.

March 3, 2004. The Chairman of the Swedish police council says that the Genocide Conference in total required 1500 police officers in charge of security, which only for the police alone cost 76 millions SEK. That amount by itself could break the annual budget of the police, which could result in forcing the police to cut down on personnel, at this at a time when there already exists an extreme shortage of police officers in Sweden.

And now the infamous artist Feiler’s Jewish heritage is displayed and used very much like an alibi in personal interviews. Aftonbladet (AB) was first as they reported on January 20, that “He is an Israeli Jew”, and on January 25 in DN it continued with the headline ”The Jew that made the ambassador see red”.
One can also read that Feiler claims that he has killed people “in combat” and that he remembers the friendship with his former comrades in the army, comrades who would instantly come rushing to his defense. After the exhibition Feiler and his mother in Israel have received death treats.
So, who is this Dror Feiler, the artist who is being given plenty of space in the Swedish media, with letters to editors and given the opportunity to display his version of art in governmental run museums which resulted in an incident that gave echoes all over the world?
Feiler has – of course – among other things his own website JIPF (Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace) where one can read that he, together with two other Swedish Jews, visited a UN conference:

“Report from the UN meeting in May 2002

Tuesday May 14. The UN general secretary was greeted by a international group of Jews that opposes the Israeli politics and occupation”…

They clearly are against the Israeli politics, which includes the “occupation”. One wonders however; do these Jews believe that they alone are FOR an Israeli-Palestinian peace – and does this mean that the remaining Jews – us – are AGAINST any such peace…?

“The three Swedes in the group were the composer Dror Feiler, former Israeli citizen and chairman of the Swedish group JIPF, Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, the pediatrician Henry Ascher, a Jewish Palestine activist and member of KPML [far left-wing extremists], and the translator Ken Schubert, Jewish peace activist and writer in the magazine Palestine Now.”

It also says on their webpage that they are against Sharon’s politics, and that the elected prime minister is not at all spokesman for the Jewish people in Israel. However, who this person is, or should have been, it doesn’t say. But if the Palestinian part of this club is the same Palestine Groups that earlier have organized protest rallies where Holocaust survivors have been chased along the streets of Stockholm, is not clear. The rest of the Jewish members in this group are, conveniently enough, not named.

Another JIPF member also has his own network , which has been formed for the sole purpose to boycott Israel, and is run by a certain Lasse Wilhelmsson. Wilhelmsson seems to have been very busy during the past years of the beginning of the new millennium. He also happens to be a member of SPG (Swedish Palestine Groups). Under the chapter “success” he has been maintaining a handy archive with names of even more Swedes in support of boycott. The previous year he was one of the signatories on the urgent call for boycott, and was later also given media space in the daily SvD, with his chronicle starting with his claim that “Israel is not a democracy. In reality there is apartheid Zionism in power.” (It was later translated and found its way to Yitzchak Shamir’s network). The chronicle was reciprocated and Wilhelmsson’s arguments torn to pieces by Eli Göndör, counter pointing and dissecting the previous embarrassingly obvious distortions and lies. Two days later the Stockholm chairman of JIPF responded in SvD claiming that Wilhelmsson acted alone in this matter and that JIPF had no part in it. Only a month later Wilhelmsson found some new friends and also co-signed a chronicle in DN. In SvD he was introduced as a member of JIFP and of the municipality council of Täby for 23 years (an area north of Stockholm), where he served for four years on the municipal executive board. In DN he is introduced as a teacher and journalist. Nevertheless, his writings have appeared on the Al-Jazeerah network where a descriptive bio also portrays him as woodworking instructor. While he seems to have an impressive as well as diverse background, it’s soon becoming pretty obvious the more one reads his writings, that this woodworking teacher isn’t the sharpest of tools in the shed.
Ambassador Mazel had already gone public and on February 20, in Expressen, one could read:

“When it looked like the flames where about to die out, The Israeli ambassador added new fuel to fire on Tuesday at the art quarrel and he accuses the media – and the Social democratic system – of being anti-Israeli.”

It was further stated in the article:

“Zvi Mazel finds however a shining exception in the Prime minister Göran Persson – he is a “good man”. But “the party is a large one” says Mazel. The Social Democratic party secretary Lars Stjernqvist says, “This is all of course totally without grounds” through his press secretary Daniel Färm. Stjernqvist chose to not comment any further.”

Later, during a TV interview for Swedish Channel 4 on February 23, 2003, Feiler (and the ambassador) get the opportunity to speak for their cases. It was revealed that the only reason Feiler wanted to serve in the Israeli army was in order to learn “how weapons work”, something which for him could be useful “the day the revolution comes”, and partly because he would, as he claimed, be able to report “extremists “or “right-wingers”, i.e. e. the possibility to tell on his serving comrades should they ever make any mistakes in the line of duty ”as soon you commit any crime, go against the rules, against civilians I will file complaints.” He testified to have been an informer to his officers. And later in the interview spoke his view regarding the Arab refugee problem:

”The founding of the state of Israel caused a catastrophe… they have expelled… I don’t know… 700 000… 800 000 Palestinians that with time has increased to become 3 or 4 millions, and most of them living in refugee camps, both in Gaza and in the West Bank and outside, in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and even more.”
”Israel has to take responsibility and acknowledge their part in the creation of the Palestinian problem.”

The last sentence of the statement is interesting. The well renowned journalist Joseph Farah, of Arab origin himself and CEO of the World Net Daily, is of a diametrically opposed opinion, which can be read in his chronicles and heard on his video seminars, both available online, free of charge. One of his chronicles “The world's collective amnesia” was written as early as in 2002 with, as usual, a number of references and quotations from Arab leaders’ statements at the time, of urgent calls for the Arabs to flee – against the Israeli urgent requests for them to stay, debunks a whole bunch of myths, and his conclusion in the chronicle is:

“It makes no sense to expect the same tiny Jewish state to solve a refugee crisis it did not create.”

The art quarrel was summed up by Leo Lagercrantz, editor of the cultural section in Expressen on January 23:

“The cultural left doesn’t care that Jewish children are being harassed in
Sweden.
During the last year I have – as editor for Expressen’s debate page – received a number of calls, emails and letters from devastated parents, relatives and teachers that time after time tell about harassment, threats and violence against Jewish children in Sweden. … But facts remain: When the Historical [museum] order a creation by Dror Feiler, who already in 1988 stated his support for the intifada and who openly support and endorses an armed revolution, you most certainly know what you’re getting.

The cultural left continues to take offense by the accusations of anti-Semitism. Each time it capsizes into Jew hate it defends itself in the classical manner with the usual “it’s only a question of art” or “satire” or ”freedom of speech…”
No one seems willing to discuss what it is really about; that it sucks that Swedish children are being harassed in the year 2004, because they are Jewish.”

Per Ahlmark told a historical anecdote in DN on January 24, telling of the same museum that 18 years earlier with the helping hands of Muslim fundamentalists, was spreading the classic anti-Semitic “the Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, (which is originally a communist forgery) and concludes with regards to the exhibition for the martyred terrorist:

“To romanticize this or to make excuses for her actions at the museum on Narva road is a insult to us all.”

This spectacle was noticed by another Swedish author, Nils-Eric Sandberg, who in a lengthy article also concludes:

…“Just a sad reflection

In Dagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet, and Expressen I have found only two criticizing comments – both made by outside columnists; Marie Söderquist in Expressen and Per Ahlmark in DN. The fact that everyone on DN’s cultural pages defend the “art creation” is not surprising, since Per Wästerberg gave up and left the position of editor-in-chief 1978 and has left DN’s cultural news desk with a monopoly for the leftists. Almost every piece published has been anti-liberal, anti-market economy, anti-American, anti-Israel. Ignorant authors such as Helle Klein and Johan (Jenny) Ehrenberg have been praised to the skies by critics who are, if possible, even more ignorant.
But since Herbert Tingsten became editor-in-chief in 1964 Dagens Nyheter’s leading pages have become rather pro-Israeli and very critical towards all anti-Semitic tendencies.
I know this for a fact: I was a writer at DN’s leading pages 1964-2000.
Now DN has two articles that criticize the Israeli ambassador’s reactions and actions, and defend the “artwork” that celebrates the mass murderess. The first article was signed and can be explained by the writer’s lack of knowledge and courage, but the next article was a main editorial – and therefore formulated the papers’ view.
So the tradition from Tingsten has been abandoned (the new writer Peter Wolodarski is an exception) and I am deeply ashamed of the paper that I have dedicated almost my entire professional life to.
There is a sad Swedish and foremost social democratic tradition of insults against Israel. “

However, a month later Expressen also publishes such a main editorial about “Israeli arrogance”. But already on January 25 it seems that these statements didn’t concern the columnist Jan Guillou the slightest, as he later writes, as per usual, blatantly in his chronicle:

“Therefore Israel has started to fully depend on the tactic to stamp out all criticism against Israel’s occupation as rashes of anti-Semitism. And therefore it is completely logical that prime minister Ariel Sharon called and congratulated his not at all crazy ambassador after his bombastic display.”

It seemed that Guillou was a bit lazy though, since he, like an old record, stutters the same broken tune, which at a closer look seems to be a shorter version of his book Inshallah. , in the chapter Anti-Semitism as a weapon. Guillou, as usual, hints that Israel’s ambassador’s sincere disgust for terrorist glorification – and this opinion is supported by an overwhelming majority with the exception perhaps of some leftists within the Israel that the ambassador represents – is in fact a secret, well calculated political game. And as usual his piece is spiced up with usual tabloid selling exaggerations such as “The oppression of the occupied Palestinian people has lately become a form of a nightmare with proportions of 50 mile long apartheid wall as its culmination” and “the closest to fanatical brutality that Ariel Sharon’s government demonstrates”. Guillou then ends his chronicle with his own home made conclusion stating that:

“In our time and part of the world the gravest racist threats are of course those aimed against Muslims and Arabs.”

According to Guillou's own ethical scale, the conclusion could only be that it’s more grave or serious if Muslims and Arabs are threatened and/or harmed than anyone else. But in reality it so happens that the previous reports and testimonies that just had leaked out previously to the media, it’s only the Arabs and Muslims who as a group is in an overwhelming majority against the minority of Swedish Jews, and it’s the Arabs and Muslims who are reported to harass Jewish minors and elderly Holocaust survivors (and not the other way around), according to Swedish research reports and other reports from the EU (prevented from publication but leaked), and in some degree also from the Jews themselves. A fact, which Guillou either repressed, or less gracefully seemed to have “forgotten”.

Even the same day, January 25, the Swedish national television SVT had an early announcement in their TV guide that the program Agenda would be broadcasting an interview with 14 year old Nadav Meyer of Göteborg, testifying that so far he has been unprovocatively attacked and beaten at least five times in public places in Göteborg. His “crime” was wearing a necklace with the Star of David fully visible. And doing so in the tolerant society of Sweden.

“Harassed because of his star of David

Statistics from the Jewish communities show that threats and harassment increased during last year and that the attacks take on more serious forms of expressions. According to researchers it’s foremost among Islamic groups and individual Muslims with roots in the Middle East, where the Jew hate grows increasingly. Meet 13-year-old Nadav Meyer who gets beaten up because he wears the Star of David.”

The day after this witness statement in national television Helle Klein, the political editor of Aftonbladet, publishes a chronicle of her own. This time she manages to be either totally ignorant and completely unaware of the situation for Jews in Sweden today, or happily living in a state of denial of already stated facts. The TV show was aired just the evening before. She aims her attack at Leo Lagercrantz in Expressen and at Per Ahlmark in Dagens Nyheter, for what they wrote. But foremost she goes after the Israeli ambassador as she thinks his “perception of reality” is “warped” and she informs her readers of her conclusion:

”In several interviews he has claimed that the anti-Semitism has grown strong in Sweden and that “Jews are harassed by Muslims everywhere, in schools, in the streets, on the subway. It’s a big accusation aimed towards the entire Swedish people, including its Muslim population. Luckily there is nothing to substantiate that this would actually be true.”

A political editor-in-chief of one of the Nordic region’s largest daily that somehow has managed to miss all previous public statements and international reports? How strange! This resulted in the evening paper Expressen publishing an entire page where the now 14-year-old Nadav himself was able to respond, and ask questions directly to Klein.

“I am a Jew, 14 years old, born in Göteborg, and I’m scared every time I walk by myself in town, to school, to sports practice, to my friends.
I am scared because am under constant threat. I have been threatened, attacked and thrown off trams because I wear my Star of David, showing that I am a Jew.
Those who do these things are always (except once) young Muslim or Arab guys with roots in the Middle East. I don’t know if they were born here or there. I am never attacked by adults, and never by girls, only guys.
They seem to think that because of the quarrel in the Middle East between the Jewish country and some Arab/Muslim countries, and especially the Palestinians, that it’s okay to attack a Jew on the other side of the world – me. To them I seem to represent everything they don’t like, Israel and Israelis. They have told me this, time after time. I usually just walk away, because I don’t want any trouble. But they push and fight, but I always walk away. One time after receiving two hits, I hit one guy back in the face. He bled severely and I ran away.
But I don’t want to fight. They never ask me what I think about the politics in Israel. And in any case – I have the right to think whatever I like about it. But no one asks me. It’s always the same thing: “Too bad Hitler didn’t do the job properly”, “Jew bastards don’t have the right to breathe the same air as regular people”, “We will finish the job Hitler didn’t” and so on.
But what if I did the same thing? What if I harassed Arabs or Muslims in the streets just because I don’t like what Osama Bin Laden did in the USA, or because of what Saddam Hussein did to the Kurds? It’s crazy.
I continue to wear my Star of David openly. I have always done so, ever since I was a small child.
Christians often wear a cross around their necks. Sikhs have turbans. Hindu women have red dots on their foreheads and Muslim women wear headscarves. So how can this be a problem? I just think it’s nice that we’re different.

I would like that the papers stopped writing so much, and especially so negatively, about Israel. Israel isn’t the only place in the world with problems, but one would easily think so considering the amount written about that area, and not of other problem areas. Those who attack me can’t see the difference between a Jew and an Israeli. If the media continues to write in this negative manner about everything Israel does, and no negative stuff about what some Arab countries do, then it’s only natural that these guys don’t know any better and regard me as the enemy. How would/could they treat me differently then?
For example I read on Monday, the day after the interview regarding the harassment I was subjected to, which was shown on “Agenda”, Channel 2, that a journalist, Helle Klein, wrote in Aftonbladet that “ Luckily there is nothing to substantiate it being… Jews harassed by Muslims everywhere, in schools, on the streets, in the subway.” But just the evening before I had told people about all this, precisely this. Again, when we visited Stockholm this autumn, I was attacked on the subway because of my Star of David. My father tried to talk to the guy, who was maybe 17-18 years old, and my dad reached out his hand and said that adults did not have to act that way. But the guy just looked at him and said ”are you insane, I won’t shake hands with some Jew bastard”. No one on the train said anything. We got off at the next stop.
The police, who have been really kind when I have reported this, want me to hide my Star of David in order to avoid trouble. But what if the problem wasn’t the fact that I was Jewish, but black? There are stupid racists who hate black people. Would the police then tell me not to show my black skin in order to avoid trouble? If that was the case we wouldn’t see a single black person in the streets, and that’s just crazy.
Everyone thinks Nazis are racists. In Sweden everyone dissociates from the Nazis, but are remarkably quiet when Muslims or Arab racists say and do exactly the same things towards Jews, as if they don’t want to be accused of being against Muslims. I am not against Muslims or any other minorities. My father grew up in a small Jewish minority in India together with Muslims and Hindus, without any problems. My grandmother was the only survivor of the family after Hitler did all those awful things to the European Jewry. She survived Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. In my family we know what it means to be a minority.

I have never heard of any Jews here in Sweden threatening people because they are Muslims or Arab. I think it’s because we Jews grow up feeling that it’s always hard to be a minority, and therefore we must show respect to others. I would like to talk to people instead of having to protect myself against them. In my family we call it respect.
Nadav Meyer
14 years old”

Klein however says in her next chronicle that Expressen is slandering her because she is a woman (!).

…“Day after day I myself am now being accused by the same papers editors and cultural editor to be “gravely hysterical” (a common accusation against women who speak their minds), of not understanding anything, of “denying” the hate that a 14 year old Jewish boy in Göteborg meets, and to “have closed my eyes” to the anti-Semitism and to “legitimate further anti-Semitism.”…

14-year-old Nadav Meyer doesn’t get any other, or better, answer than that. Klein was of course as usual not to blame, in her own happy little world, after years of continuous “Israel criticism” and directly supporting anti-Israel actions, or written about them herself in a supportive way, while constantly whining and moaning in continuous slandering chronicles aimed against the State of Israel and its actions of self-defense. Young Meyer continues to wear his Star of David also after the TV appearance and the openhearted letter, and was being continuously harassed and attacked during the year. And the highly paid Klein continued to write anti-Israeli chronicles on a monthly basis, obviously not too concerned.

The same day, a letter in the morning paper SvD had already been published regarding the genocide conference that Sweden organized and was hosting. In that letter further grave concerns emerged which apparently had passed the political editor-in-chief and her other columnists by, and had also missed the past autumn’s reports and TV shows in the Swedish media.

“Islamism breeds new Jew hate

Today the government’s Genocide Conference opens. Many were moved to tears by Göran Persson's words in 2001 about never forgetting the crimes of the Nazis. But his credibility stands and falls with how he now handles the propaganda once again being aimed at the Jews.
What does Göran Persson have to say about the new Jew hate that grows amongst Islamists and other Muslim groups? The writer Hedi Fried asks this as well as the cultural editor Jackie Jakubowski.
“Human values and democracy cannot be defended with silence. Human values and democracy cannot be defended with passivity.”
Thus spoke Prime Minister Göran Persson in January 2001 at the Stockholm International Forum: Combating intolerance.
A year earlier he had initiated the conference about the Holocaust and the project Living History. His opening speech was about the importance of making a stand, never to be silent about anti-Semitism, racism, and all kinds of xenophobia.
Already from an early age many Arab children and youths learn hostility towards the Jewish people. Even in Swedish suburbs and on the Internet the anti-Semitism is increasing, the authors claim.

Many of the Holocaust survivors were moved to tears by the prime minister’s words: “From history’s devastated darkness, like an eternal call, we hear their cries; ‘never forget us!’ No, we will never forget!”
And with reference to an article, where one of us (Hedi Fried) wrote that the tragedy in the Balkan four decades after the Holocaust shows us that mankind never learns, Göran Persson assured us in his finishing speech that we do learn from the past.
That’s how it sounded then. Since then Göran Persson has hardly spoken a word about the anti-Jewish climate that has grown and spread and taken yet more violent expressions, both in Sweden and abroad.

During the last three years synagogues and schools have been set on fire and Jews have been attacked in the streets of Paris, Antwerp and Göteborg. Calls for violence have been incited and agitated for openly – and then implemented.
In the spring of 2002, for example, when the Liberal Youth organized a peaceful demonstration at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm under the parole “Stop Anti-Semitism and stop Islamophobia” some of the demonstrators were assaulted. “Jew pigs” and “Death to the Jews!” echoed in Swedish and Arabic in the center of the capital of Sweden.

Göran Persson has never said a word about this in public. And when the Jewish community a couple of weeks later held a manifestation against anti-Semitism in the Raoul Wallenberg Square, any response to the invitation never came from the prime minister or any other government representative.

The perpetrators of these anti-Jewish attacks have not been by “the old anti-Semites” – “It’s no longer about any far right-wing anti-Semitism, but about Jew hate of Islamic origin”, the French Minister of Education Luc Ferry explains.
The perpetrators are in most of cases young men with roots in the Middle East and North Africa, who live in the larger cities’ suburbs in Europe and are themselves victims of xenophobia.
They represent a small minority of the Muslims in Europe, but they live in an environment where Jew hate has become both part of the religious preaching and the political debate about the Palestine conflict. Their inspirational sources can be found in the Arab world, where we see an even cruder form of anti-Semitic propaganda.

This ideology of hate also reaches our large rSwedish cities’ suburbs, where the failed integration politics contributes to the seeds of extremism being sown.
Historian Mikael Tossavainen shows this in the report ”Hatred Denied”(Det Förnekade Hatet) from Lund (Swedish Committee Against anti-Semitism). His observations and conclusions are completely in line with the French department of internal affairs, in their own report “The new anti-Semitism” which was published in December.
The French government spokespersons nowadays admit that one earlier has “underestimated the magnitude of the problem”.
But more European leaders are now beginning to speak more openly about this development. At a meeting in Brussels in the middle of December the EU gave voice to its “deep concern for the increasing degree of anti-Semitic intolerance” and decided to hold a special conference in Berlin in February in order to address the question.

But in Sweden Göran Persson spoke about this development only after two Parliament members had asked him questions directly (13/11 2003).
He explained that he is well aware of the situation that Annelie Enochson (Christian Democratic party) and Gabriel Romanus (Liberal party) described: That anti-Semitism grows in the Swedish suburbs, that teachers testify about hostility towards Jews among groups of Arab and Muslim pupils, that on the internet there are Swedish homepages published by Muslim organizations spreading crude anti-Semitic propaganda and encouraging harassment against Swedish Jews. “This is my perception of reality also, and it hurts me deeply.” said Göran Persson. But if the prime minister has known this all along, why has he been silent?

To criticize those who spread hate in the name of Islam or to condemn anti-Semitism in Muslim environments has nothing to do with Islamophobia. To forcefully condemn racist Islamism ought to be self evident to those who say that they have indeed learned from the previous totalitarian ideologies’ rampages.”
….

Hedi Fried, psychologist and author
Came to Sweden in 1945 as a Holocaust survivor

Jackie Jakubowski
Cultural writer and editor-in-chief for the Jewish Chronicle

There was no response from any government spokesperson with regards to these questions this time either. And just a day later another journalist, at the same paper, came to the bright conclusion that there hardly exists any anti-Semitism at all in Sweden.

The beginning of the year the continues with the Parliament member Gustaf Fridolin giving lectures on his “experiences” regarding Israel, experiences from in total less than a week that he spent there, and a large part of that experience was from Israeli custody after a stone throwing incident. Now in this brand new era, Italian fascism is obsolete, German Nazism has been largely extinguished (or at least forbidden by law in Germany), and Russian Communism has died by its own hands, but a seed to another ISM had been sown – the “International Solidarity Movement”. A month later, almost on the day after that small incident in Israel, Fridolin shows another set of skills in a press statement.

“ISM nominated for the Nobel Peace prize

Parliament members Gustaf Fridolin (Green party) and Kalle Larsson (Left party) nominate the peace movement International Solidarity Movement for the Nobel Peace prize.”

This is an extract from the nominated “peace group” ISM’s principal declaration in Sweden:

…“ISM does not resist the armed struggle but supports the Palestinian right to armed resistance”…

Hence a “peace group” declaring principal support to (terrorist) violence, had just been nominated by two Swedish Members of Parliament for an internationally acknowledged and prestigious award. Who were these members of parliament that had found each other? Larsson from the Left party happily calls himself “communist” and “anti-fascist”. A year earlier on the memorial day of the German Kristallnacht pogroms against the European Jewry he was present at a rally in Malmö, kidnapping and desecrating that very memory with slandering accusations. A year prior to this he described the democracy of Israel in a Parliament debate as being “a racist apartheid state… lead by a brutal war criminal with blood on his hands from hundreds of murders… snipers target medics who do their work and bombs are being dropped on hospitals”. But already in 1994 Kalle Larsson had everything else but an infamous anti-fascist attitude, rather the opposite, when he was quoted in an interview conducted by the conservative Joakim Nilsson, which Larsson has become somewhat infamous for:

“When the revolution comes I promise to see to it that it’s me holding the rifle that will shoot you.”

When members of the Parliament as representatives for the Left and the green party nominate an organization that only just before the nominations has been involved in terrorist actions against civilians in other democracies, one is lead to believe that something must be seriously rotten in Swedish politics. On April 30, 2003 two ISM “activists” conducted a terrorist attack by targeting a jazz club and detonating a bomb and blowing themselves up together with their victims in the crowded club. The relatives of the murdered innocent victims at Mike’s Place by the beach promenade in Tel-Aviv are probably not being asked what they think, or if they even knew about the Swedish joint Parliament nomination, or if they are happy about this “peace prize nomination”. On March 8, film footage was released from a confiscated Hamas video showing these two “ISM peace activists” posing for the camera, dressed up both in the white shahid (holy martyr) dress, and in army camouflage gear, waving both the holy Koran and their AK-47 machine guns, standing in front of a Hamas flag.

Ashif Muhahmmad Hanif, 22, and Omar Khan Sharif, 27

At Mike’s Place in Tel-Aviv, 3 civilians were killed and over 50 injured by the hands of these “peace activists”. The owner of Mike’s Place, drenched in blood, told the Jerusalem Post reporters , that he was standing behind the counter when he heard the loud explosion, but he was surprisingly enough alive and OK. It was worse for one of the waitresses who had her arm blown off. The people responsible for this are the people the Parliament member of the Swedish Left party and Green party want to nominate for the Nobel “peace prize”, an organization that just has been involved in terror targeting civilians and an organization that has succeeded in terrorist atrocities resulting in mass murder.

An essay with the headline Housebroken Jew hate, is published on March 4 and was presented this way:

“The lack of knowledge about persecutions of Jews is large, especially within the Left. The anti-Semitism of the 1930’s never became subject to self-examination. Therefore the same images now return but now disguised as criticism of Israel.”

Follow the money. The Swedish organization SIDA, the social democratic government’s office for international aid, has censored and stopped the publication of a report. These news are reported in Sweden, which for a long period has been in a state of recession starting at the beginning of the millennium, with high unemployment rates. On a daily basis people have been able to read alarming news reports and reports from politicians suggesting cut backs and streamlining in public health care and other areas, which wasn’t exactly the promises made during the previous election. Politics as usual. But according to the reports the country is at this time on her knees, with unemployed in hundreds of thousands. During these hard times the King of Sweden went for a state visit to Brunei and, not being very well informed, put his foot in his mouth and made a few not so very clever remarks about the dictatorship where he was the honored guest. This immediately drew the attention from the anti-royalists as well as the left who squabbled about the king’s annual appanage of 50 millions which he doesn’t have to account for.

“This is how SIDA covered up the criticism against the PLO support.
SIDA had ordered a research report to be made in the form of a scientific analysis of the Swedish aid to Yassir Arafat and the Palestinian Administration. The conclusion of the analysis was that the aid should be stopped. But then SIDA classified the result – and continued to pump out tax millions.”

This report was written in 1997 after SIDA had given away at least 200, but more probably around 300 millions SEK a year, for seven years, at the total sum of somewhere around 1,4 – 2,1 billions. It actually seemed as if the Swedish King wasn’t as important to Sweden as the Palestinian Authority, and especially Yassir Arafat himself. Only a year earlier, the Egyptian dictator made the list in the Forbes Magazine, where he was ranked as being richer than the Queen of the Netherlands. And Arafat’s wife Suha was living happily in luxury in France – but at the expense of whom? Well, probably with the help of the Swedish taxpayers, many of them unemployed. And this includes the Swedish Jews, who had, probably against their will, involuntarily been part of funding a terrorist organization with the annihilation of the Jews as their goal, and plenty of Jewish blood on their hands already, in order to emphasize that specific goal of destruction.

The very thorough 103-page long report says: “The Involvement of Arafat, PA Senior Officials and Apparatuses in Terrorism against Israel, Corruption and Crime” was already out in the spring of 2002, and, without a shadow of a doubt, directly linked the “democratically elected” chairman Arafat, after investigation and the seizing of documents from his headquarters, to recent terrorist attacks, deliberately aimed at unarmed defenseless Israeli civilians, including women and children.

The director and person in charge of SIDA’s Asian region, Jan Bjerninger, had no answers to give as to why the report was classified. “I know nothing, I have no answers, I’ll get someone to investigate this.” A week earlier he had stated, regarding the SIDA aid of some 20 millions SEK of the taxpayers’ money straight to NSU, which had become the propaganda machine for the PLO, in answer to the question regarding independent researchers if NSU is now a propaganda central for PLO: “I haven’t heard about that before.”
At which level in SIDA was this decision made? “At my level.”
Why were the papers classified? “I don’t know.”
Bjerninger’s “investigation” however, seemed only a week later to have led him to give an “explanation”:

“The reason given for the SIDA 1997 secrecy regarding Sune Persson’s report about corruption within the Palestinian Authority, was that the report risked disturbing the then ongoing peace process, writes Jan Bjerninger, section chief for SIDA Asian department, in response to Lisa Abramowicz’ article of March 3.”

The Wall Street Journal had also noticed there was something very wrong with the Swedish fundings. After this scandal a vivid debate commenced, primarily in the Swedish Parliament, trying to figure out who was responsible for the classification of the report, but no straight answers came from either SIDA or the Swedish Foreign Ministry. Until Tuesday October 19 when Ewa Björklund named Pierre Schori, the same Schori who two years earlier wrote a speech for the Holocaust denying prize winner for the Palme foundation. It’s revealed in the article that Schori, shortly after the classification, visited Arafat and promised him another 158 million SEK of the Swedish taxpayers’ money. Schori was able to do this as undersecretary of state for foreign affairs, since his career made him move on and hold the title of Swedish UN ambassador.

Let’s see what Schori answered regarding his concerns for Arafat and the aid already in 1997, in the Swedish Parliament “… asks if the Swedish aid goes to the Palestinian people? The answer is yes; I want to emphasize that Sweden in general have great demands regarding control and evaluation of the aid. SIDA therefore regularly follows up the aid efforts to the Palestinians. Results and effects on development are being investigated.” Information on other investigations made came from the organization eufunding.org later, when they released a 48-page report in 2004, where one could download the report and the introduction of the report reads:

“European aid has not reached its intended target – the Palestinian people. It has been diverted towards grafting, terrorism and incitement to hatred and violence.”.

That verdict is very close to what Sune Persson’s report had predicted already in 1997.

On March 15, the Christian paper Dagen (The Day) informs us that the priest and MP for the Liberal party, Cecilia Wikström, has filed a complaint to the chancellor of justice since the magazine Arbetaren (The Worker) had published an essay by a certain professor of philosophy, Torbjörn Tännsjö, who had came to the “intellectual” and bright conclusion that “Israelis have a collective guilt. And therefore terrorism [against Israelis] is morally justified”.

March 18 – Hamas and Sweden
This past week has been an eventful one for Hamas and Sweden. It began on March 18 when it was reported that the Swedish Radio had revealed that the terrorist organization (even by EU standards) Hamas had their official website situated on the Telia (formerly governmental) commercial networks. On this website a plethora of clear incitement to murdering Jews could be read, and so called Lebanese “students” were officially claimed to be in charge of the maintenance of the website. The Swedish Security Police (SÄPO), whose work includes combating terrorism, acknowledged that for a longer period of time (i.e. more than six months) had known about the existence of this website, but didn’t perceive it as something remarkable or in contradiction with current Swedish law. It was not too pleasant seeing this side of the police, whose job it is to look after and protect Swedish interests against foreign and anti-democratic forces, now showing obvious signs of having trouble spotting terrorists who openly incite to murder of Swedish citizens. Would the Swedish Security Police possibly have had any trouble spotting them if someone designed a webpage glorifying the neo-Nazi inspired police murders in Malexander, mocking its victims and urging for more cop killings? The Swedish Security Police representative was interviewed on the evening news at 22:00 on Channel 4 the same day, where the deputy chief Margareta Linderoth, obviously cornered after being hunted down by reporters during the day, said:

“Everyone has the right to belong to a terrorist organization… as long as they don’t commit any criminal act.”

This said by the deputy chief of police on Swedish prime time television, and what signals this may have sent out one is left to wonder about for sure. However, the Jewish community of Göteborg filed a complaint against the Security Police, that the police had known about and not acted on the terrorist propaganda, which was based in Sweden.

In order to get an adequate perspective on this incident one could then make a hypothetical comparison and try to understand, or imagine, how an American news audience would receive the same message during similar circumstances. For example, let’s pretend that the Internet provider America On Line contains the official website of Al-Qaeda in their networks and that CNN blows the whistle about it. The FBI deputy chief goes on the news and says, “Everyone has the right to belong to a terrorist organization…” The mere thought is so absurd and divorced from reality, that there are hardly words enough to describe it. But in Sweden it seemed to be perceived as something completely normal and natural and was casually observed by the average Swede as well as the rest of the country with a mere yawn of disinterest – and then seemingly accepted by a majority of the news consumers, soon to be forgotten.

Later the same week, on Saturday March 20, 2004, thousands of demonstrators got together in order to express their discontent with the coalition countries’ liberation of Iraq from its dictator Saddam Hussein, according to DN :

“Gustaf Fridolin, on the organizing committee for the Network Against War and Parliament member, satisfied with the attendance” and that the “Network Against War is a loosely contained organization that organizes demonstrations and seminars, Gustaf Fridolin was the last speaker before the march went on its way, heading towards the American embassy in order to end the manifestation there.”

The manifestation ended outside the American Embassy with the burning of a US flag, something not uncommon in the Middle East, and lo and behold, in the photograph supplied by DN, visible in the background is the proposed Palestinian flag flying in the wind, not being torched. Parliament member Gustaf Fridolin’s “loosely contained” “Network Against War” members includes the following organizations:

Organizations Against War (March 17, 2003)
Artister för fred, Attac Sverige, Clarté-förbundet, Elevkampanjen, FIB-Juristerna, Folket i Bild Kulturfront, Forum för Global Solidaritet och Samverkan, Framtiden i Våra Händer, Föreningen Jaime Pardo Real, Föreningen Ordfront, Föreningen Sveriges Lärare för Fred, Föreningen Västsahara, Globalisering Underifrån, Grekiska Föreningen i Sthlm, Grön Ungdom, Internationella kvinnoförbundet för Fred och Frihet, IKFF, Internationella Kvinnoföreningen i Knivsta, Irakiska Kvinnoföreningen, Irakiska Riksförbundet, Jugoslavien-kommittén, Järfällabor mot Krig, Kalmar LS/Syndikalisterna, Kvinnor för Fred, Kommunal Sektion 26 i Stockholm, KPMLr , Kristna Studentrörelsen i Sverige, Kurdiska Rådet, Kvinnofronten, Miljöpartiet, Nätverket för Fred och Kultur Uppsala, Nätverket för Solidaritet med Latinamerika, Palestinska Föreningen i Stockholm, Palestinagruppen i Stockholm, RKU, Rättvisepartiet-Socialisterna, SEKO Klubb 119 (alla t-baneförare i Sthlm), Socialistiska Partiet, SSU Stockholm, SSU Jönköping, SSU Skåne, Svenska Baptisternas Ungdomsförbund, Svenska Fredskommittén
Svenska Irakkommittén mot de Ekonomiska Sanktionerna, Svenska Kvinnors Vänsterförbund, Svenska Missionsförbundets Ungdom, Svensk-Filippinska Föreningen, Svensk-Koreanska Föreningen, Svensk-Kubanska Föreningen, Sveriges Anarkistfederation Stockholm, Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti SKP, Sveriges Muslimska Råd, Sveriges Småbrukare, Sveriges Unga Muslimer, Ungsocialisterna, Ung Vänster, Verdandi Järfälla, Victor Jaras Riksförbund, Vännernas Samfund, Kväkarna, Vänsterpartiet, Vänsterns studentförbund

This list of organizations includes everything ranging from artists, students, teachers, political parties, religious parties as well as other various associations. However, not one single Jewish organization can bee seen, not even Dror Feiler’s (or failure as some Jews now refer to him) organization JIPF – but then again, the Swedish Jews might not be welcome to partake in the “demonstrations” who rally and frighten people on their Saturday walk? Is it perhaps equally morally justified to burn a Palestinian flag instead, but outside some Swedish refugee camp this time? These groups have once more proved what they aim for with their behavior, and shown what they want from the future.

On Sunday, the following day, it was time again. This time approximately 500 individuals intended to “demonstrate” in the streets of Stockholm, under the protection of the evening darkness as well as their facemasks. The mob that refers to themselves as “Global Intifada” created mayhem in the streets during the riots while trying to attack Jews on the Nalen festival yet again as well as Israeli institutions. This lead to violent clashes between the so-called “demonstrators” and the anti-riot police forces.

A person who obviously “demonstrates” against Israel for defending its existence as shown in the media, when demonstrators ran amok and smashed the windows of the Jewish state’s tourist bureau.

The tabloid Aftonbladet (AB) later made room for a longer column for one of the “demonstrator’s” defensive “explanation” and about the evil police using excess violence.

…“’A friend and I decided to be medics and we wore homemade armbands with red crosses to show who we were…” and later “I started to shout that I was a medic…’
Nabila Abdul Fattah, 22
Rap artist and student involved in the Palestinian cause

It sounds more like disguise and deception, if she at the moment wasn’t trained professionally as a medic, and would such medics really be needed at a peaceful demonstration? They obviously knew there were going to be violence, hence the attempt to appoint themselves “medics”. The protestors had brought rocks, fireworks, acid and petrol, which they threw at the anti-riot police forces trying to defend the Jews at the private Israeli dinner gathering.

AB journalists also reported that that the Swedish ambassador to Germany was “upset”, by the picture of him quibbling with the anti-riot police drenched in some kind of liquid, because he wasn’t allowed to pass the police anti-riot fence. What a coincidence that he just happened to be in the neighborhood at the time, and him being the same ambassador, Carl Tham, who only a year earlier co-signed the boycott calls against Israel, together with archbishop KG Hammar.
No one really seemed to be very interested in what the intended targets – the Jews at the dinner gathering – thought.

March 22, 2004. Israel strikes back.

“National mourning declared

GAZA. Hamas’ spiritual leader, the wheel chair bound Ahmad Yassin, was killed in a Israeli air attack…”

Yassir Arafat proclaimed a three-day long period of national mourning in honor of the eliminated terrorist leader Sheik Yassin. What kind of politician or statesman mourns a liquidated terrorist? A terrorist the PA was supposed to combat, not support and pay respect to.
SVT aired yet another debate program that due to this news report broadcasts a special debate program called “Is it possible to stop the spiral of violence?” What did the invited Monzer el Sabini, introduced as “a regular Swedish-Palestinian”, think and have to say about the Arab Hamas leadership? Well, he said among other things: “Yassin was a liberal moderate Muslim who united different groups”.

A Swedish protest storm emerged and erupted in Sweden against Israel, and the chairman of the Young Left, Ali Esbati, was reportedly against the neutralization of the terrorist leader.

“Extrajudicial executions of this kind, which Israel openly and proudly have performed, are against all imaginable conventions.”

The Green party’s MP Yvonne Ruwaida didn’t like the liquidation of the terrorist either:

“Sweden has to increase the demands on Israel to stop the state terrorism, writes the Green party’s member of Parliament Yvonne Ruwaida today in a interpellation to foreign minister Laila Freivalds.”

The new SSU chairman Shekarabi didn’t like the liquidation of the instigator of Jew murder either:

“After Monday’s execution of Sheik Ahmed Yassin in Gaza, SSU joins those who condemn Israel’s state terrorism”

The Olof Palme Center complains:

“But that doesn’t change the fact that the murder was in violation of international law, extrajudicial execution is of course forbidden. That it was conducted in such a way, this time with a helicopter attack which resulted in collateral damage is yet another insult.”

Foreign minister Freivalds together with her colleagues in the EU foreign ministry didn’t like the elimination of the inciter of mass murder towards civilian Jews:

“Foreign minister Laila Freivalds condemns the murder on Hamas’ spiritual leader, Ahmad Yassin. ‘We cannot accept extrajudicial executions, terrorists shall undergo trial and be tried by legal means, said Freivalds before the Foreign Ministry’s meeting in Brussels. She warns that the violence might escalate further and that the Palestinian Authority is made even weaker, and that the EU foreign ministers worked during Monday on a joint statement that condemns extrajudicial executions, added Freivalds.”

What kind of country, no, what kind of continent is this?
The Nazi Richard Heydrich in the SS, planned the Jew exterminations in Europe 62 years ago, in 1942. At a seized (from a Jewish family that had fled) suburban villa in the city of Wannsee, the famous meeting was held that laid out the drafts for the Final Solution – Endlosnung of “the Jewish question”, that later came to be known to the world as the Holocaust. Czech resistance fighters later eliminated Heydrich as he was traveling in his car on his way to a meeting. Was that also possibly to be regarded as an “extrajudicial execution” and going against international law? Because I haven’t seen any official Swedes or Europeans complaining about this “murder”, except the Nazis at the time, who responded with destroying the village of Lidice (where rumors had it that the resistance fighters originated from) on direct orders from Adolf Hitler, and killing all living creatures down to the last pet. Hamas’ goal isn’t so different; their official charter speaks of a very similar goal for Jews globally, and certainly the only Jewish nation on earth. The goal is total annihilation.
But now European leaders, who usually are real quiet when it comes to condemning the recurring Arab atrocities against Israelis, get together and condemn Israel. And in Sweden the usual self-proclaimed know-it-all experts gather in the media, and once more spread themselves all over the morning TV sofas. “Israel should have done this”, and “Israel should have done that”, they’re preaching. Their complete lack of understanding, their incapability of putting themselves in Israel’s position, is speaking for itself. Some of them even wonder why Israel didn’t send in troops on foot instead in order to arrest the terrorist leader. The same people that unilaterally condemned Israel for sending in troops in Jenin on foot. They put Israel in an impossible catch 22 situation.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry had in their possession plenty of videotapes of when this terrorist, Ahmad Yassin, were preaching of slaughtering of Jews. CNN ran a poll among the viewers. Of those who voted, an overwhelming majority; a wholesome 76% with a total over 50 000 voters on the Yes answer agreed that Israel hade made the right decision. The question was “was Israel justified?”

To quickly sum up just seven days in Sweden in March 2004: Hamas incitement homepage in Swedish controlled networks that the security police knew about.
Saturday: Flags on fire outside the US Embassy. Sunday: Jews being attacked and windows smashed. Monday: Hamas terrorist leader’s elimination condemned by government parties and their subsidiaries.

On March 22 another 50-page report regarding the European anti-Semitism is published in which, once again, a whole chapter is dedicated to Sweden. In the introduction to this report one can read on the Human Rights First webpage :

…“We show that attacks on Jewish individuals and institutions in Europe have been perpetrated both by extremist right-wing organizations and by members of immigrant Muslim communities who invoke the Middle East conflict in generalized attacks on Jews – treating the victims as we call it "enemies by proxy" for the State of Israel. “….

It’s further stated in the press release:

…“Yet, overall, despite some increased attention by European institutions and some governments, the report found that high levels of anti-Jewish threats and violence continue across Europe, and that the pattern of attacks and violence remains unchanged.”…

April 3
A small, but upcoming nationalistic party, the Sweden Democrats, is portrayed, mostly by various leftist youth parties and other organizations, as a right-wing extremist party with historical ties to Nazism. However, in an issued press statement they write:

“Björn Söder threatened

Sweden: On Tuesday 30 March Björn Söder, the deputy chairman of the Sweden Democrats, was the recipient of a threat in the form of an e-mail. The threat has been filed as a police complaint and is regarded by the party as a death threat.

It was on Tuesday that Björn Söder received the e-mail from an unknown sender. The letter contained text that can be regarded as a death threat. The reason for the letter is Björn Söder’s statements in support of the state of Israel. Contents of the letter suggest that someone with Nazi sympathies is behind it. Björn Söder regards the threat seriously but emphasizes that his opinions won’t be affected.

- I think that Israel is the only democracy in the region. Israel is continuously the target of attacks that lack comparison, and has, just like any other sovereign state, the right to defend itself against the attacks it’s been exposed to…”.

Interestingly enough, it seems that this right-wing “extremist” whose party sometimes has even been called a “Nazi” party, as a minority among the established Swedish political parties, is speaking for Israel’s right to self defense, principles that guarantee its right to exist – as a Jewish democracy. Further it seems that the accusations of Nazi connections have lead this party to drag up and counter point some very interesting, but not very flattering, ugly history of the Social Democratic party during the Second World War. This is published online in the 15-page publication “The Social Democracy’s True Nature – the party behind the democratic front” where one can read about the social democrats’ co-operation with the German and Swedish Nazis during and after the war.

On April 5 the chairman of the Parliament’s justice committee sounds the alarm:
“Sweden is becoming a base for terrorists”. This can hardly come as a surprise to some of the Swedish Jews, where many of them have seen it coming for a long time, even years. It might start with the Jews, but it doesn’t stop there, it seldom does.

April 28, 2004 – The Swedish government’s official representative Mona Sahlin, minister for democracy, integration and gender equality issues, holds a speech at OSSE in Brussels regarding anti-Semitism. It’s a really hearty and revealing speech:

“The Swedish Government regards the task to counteract and combat anti-Semitism and related intolerance as one of its most important duties. “

And further she takes on personal responsibility in order to emphasize just that:

“Because governments are responsible all the way and in every way.
The work of combating and preventing anti-Semitism must be implemented on all levels of society.”

But regardless of the nice words, no Arab or Muslim seems to have been prosecuted or convicted so far in Sweden. And finally she ends her speech by quoting the Jewish Israeli professor Yehuda Bauer:

“…and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.”

Sahlin also proudly tells the audience that Sweden conducts statistics on anti-Semitic crimes, and that the government has initiated the project “Living History” in order to inform the Swedish youth about the Nazi crimes during the Second World War. The chairman of the board of that project just so happened to be the former deputy prime minister/foreign minister Lena Hjelm-Wallén, the one who only a year before talked of “personal boycott” against the Jewish nation Israel. And at the Parliament debate regarding the increasing anti-Semitism in Sweden already in 2001, she somehow managed to add “in the same manner that we guard the right to criticize Israel’s occupation of Palestinian areas and assaults on the Palestinian people.” In a speech three years prior to this she had “demanded” that Israel “should, no must” give up the Golan Heights and the West Bank, military strategical key areas, important to Israel’s very future survival, overtaken legally in defensive war after previous Arab aggression, which also cut off its main capital Jerusalem’s east section. It’s also known, after vivid public debates, that politicians take board missions in order to increase their income. Her successor, the most recent woman foreign minister Laila Freivalds, spoke at the Jerusalem Holocaust remembrance museum, Yad Vashem. It was much anticipated, and a former spokesperson for the Swedish Jews greeted her with open arms and wrote in the Israeli paper the Jerusalem Post:

“The good news is that Sweden's foreign minister Laila Freivalds has come to Israel to speak at a Yad Vashem ceremony and meet Israeli leaders.
The bad news is that back in Sweden the situation of the Jewish community is becoming increasingly difficult.”

Thus it is with utmost concern that I as a former resident of Sweden have witnessed a flood of anti-Semitic incidents during the past several years.
But I don't speak only for myself. What I am writing here are also the views of Salomo Berlinger, Willy Salomon and Torsten Press – all of us former chairmen of the Jewish community of Stockholm, now residing in Israel.

Swedish Jews expect the government to take concrete and determined measures to stop the flood of anti-Semitism in Sweden and to make sure that every Jewish resident in Sweden who so wishes can practice his religion and traditions without fear of verbal or physical violence.
Freivalds' visit is welcome. Positive actions would be even more welcome.

Freivalds obviously chose to ignore these grave concerns, and took another route instead, the usual language of foreign ministers, in the official speech in memory of the Nazi victims at the Holocaust remembrance museum Yad Vashem, during the ongoing terror war:

“Let me in this connection state very clearly that it is legitimate to criticize Israeli government policies, just as it is to criticize the policy of any government. Such criticism can never in itself be equal to anti-Semitism, and we firmly reject any attempts to do so.”

And with this statement she managed more or less to offend the entire Israeli society and its citizens and the victims of terror, when the Israel state tries to protect the same citizens from the ongoing Muslim Arab terror campaign.

On May 1 Lars Ohly of the Left party holds a speech: “Ariel Sharon is a murderer and a war criminal. He was personally responsible for the massacres in Sabra and Shatila. He is personally responsible for the terror against the Palestinians”.
The person responsible for the terror against the Arabs has been Arafat and his thugs, just like he was in Lebanon when starting the civil war there 1974 and the ethnic cleansing of the Christian Maronite Arabs, destroying their homes as a way of saying thanks for the hospitality. The Left party at this point, seemed to have given up regarding to the Jenin hoax, but instead they resorted to the spreading of the well-known lies about the terrorist camps in Lebanon. If village massacres are of interest, the Left party might want to ask themselves what happened prior to that, when the PLO gangsters entered the village of Damour in 1976 which resulted in a shoot out and a bombed church, gang rapes, and some 500 dead and mutilated villagers, after some 25 000 inhabitants had to flee for their lives from the carnage. At the PLO hideout in Sabra and Shatila one can read the witness testimony from the Lebanese Robert Maroun Hatem’s own book, blacklisted in Lebanon, “From Israel to Damascus“ where in chapter 8 one can read the following:

“Sharon had given strict orders to Hobeika to guard against any desperate move, should his men run amok. They were to behave like a real, dignified, regular army and not like «chocolate soldiers« and to co-ordinate their moves with the Israeli command. Their mission was to exert pressure on the Palestinians to drive them all out of the camp, and to pick out the PLO agents left behind after the evacuation of the Palestinians in August 1982. They rallied at the Cite Sportive and were taken prisoners. After inspection the civilians would be sent back to their homes. However, Hobeika gave his own instructions to his men: Total extermination ... camps wiped out.”

He goes even further and states:

“I was Hobeika’s field man and always present on the premises with my chief wherever he went. I can state under oath, that General Sharon would never have lit up the area the way he did, had he planned a slaughter. He would not have cleaned up the Cite Sportive to house all the Palestinians pending their return to their homes after verification. He would not have placed his tanks and armored cars all around the camps to capture the remaining armed Palestinian agents. One thing was certain; the Syrians had men within the ranks of the Lebanese Forces’ leaders. Reflecting back on the events of my life, all the facts leads me to believe that Hobeika was the man who in 1982 provoked the Sabra and Shatila massacres. I can only give my own testimony as an eyewitness to the events that brought about the massacres.”

And while bringing up the subject of Syria and particularly the village massacres, this happened the same year, in 1982, when the Syrian dictator Hafiz Assad’s army leveled the Syrian city of Hama with the ground, with estimations in the range of 30 000 to 40 000 dead, a presumed and overwhelming majority of those being civilians. That’s 30 to 40 times more victims, than in the case of Sabra and Shatila. The PLO habit of attacking holy sites such as churches could also be seen in 2002 when Muslim Arabs occupied the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem for a month, having taken 200 innocent civilians as hostages. And a demographic shift has occurred as well: “Bethlehem used to be 80% Christian; today it’s down to 20% and constantly dwindling” where the fleeing former residents have sometimes testified about the mafia style Arafat’s Islamism has brought in. There is a pattern here. And this pattern is of war crimes to great extent – but one never hears any politicians from the Swedish Left even bothering to show the smallest concern or condemnation in these cases, nor any calls for international tribunals. The most visible and common nominator in these cases would be that there weren’t any Jews around to try and pin the blame on.

May 14 – DN informs its readers that the Vatican warns Catholic women against Muslim men in a 80-page long official report, and not to lend church room to non-Christians.

May 28 – The Young Left has a new chairman after the previous one, Ali Esbati, seemed to somehow have been involved in a sex scandal where a list of names circulated. This affair was closed to the public and they were obviously not to know what really happened. The new chairman, Tove Fraurud, makes herself heard by accusing one from the Conservative party of “racism”. The only reason being that he is also the chairman of the Israeli-Swedish friendship association, and the irony is that she thereby takes on the racist way of collective guilt by association and generalizations while mocking the entire Conservative party.

“We have a slogan that says ‘no racists in Brussels’ It was aimed at the Sweden Democrats and the National Democrats but should probably also be applied with regards to the Conservative party.”

July 3 – While the Vatican, two weeks earlier, issued an official warning about some Muslims’ views on women, the Swedish boycotting archbishop presents another agenda in DN . The headline reads: “Archbishop KG Hammar takes on the battle for the right to wear religious symbols within the work environment.” It went on:

“Islam needs to get larger room in society. Religious connection is an asset even in the work life. Questions about discrimination of Muslims and the right to wear religious symbols must be addressed. The majority of the Swedish people cannot continue to oppress different religious minorities. Muslim women wearing head scarves have been feeling especially targeted, writes the Swedish archbishop KG Hammar in the DN Debate section in a urgent call, together with Moistafa Kharraki, chairman of the Swedish Muslim Council and Sture Nordh, chairman of TCO [union]”…

While this is a heartily felt and understandable cause, strangely enough it seems that only Muslims have the attention for these universal rights in this urgent call, while the Jews are hiding their stars of David, because of the harassments they are subjected to by young Muslims and Arabs within the Swedish society on a daily basis. But of course that’s not the whole story of what the archbishop, head of the Swedish Church, really has been up to. Only a couple of weeks earlier the archbishop, again, instigated yet another campaign of boycott against Israel. This time the boycott had its own name – HOPP (which means hope) and included a number of church affiliations and business partners: “For a just peace in the Middle East – End the occupation of Palestine…” The Swedish Jewish chairman and spokesperson Lisa Abramowicz, chairman of the Swedish Israel Information center, instantly renamed the campaign Hope(less?) with a number of conclusive questions and unanswered appeals.

…“3) The Swedish church does not propagate boycott towards USA because of the war and occupation of Iraq, towards China for the occupation of Tibet, Syria for the occupation of Lebanon, against Russia for the blood soaked conflict in Chechnya or India because of the conflict in Kashmir. Where is the logic? Where is the justice? In other regards, is trade boycott really the best way to “build bridges, not walls”, as HOPP so beautifully writes?

Dearest Archbishop KG Hammar! Call off the campaign against Israel! It is unjust and wrong. Do you wish to help the Palestinians, then buy goods marked ‘Made in Palestine’! Have a real dialogue and start building mutual trust by creating projects with both parties if you want to break the deadlock. Please make demands, but make them to both parties!”

The campaign also lead to the straw that finally broke the back of the patience of the Swedish Jewish Central Council who felt forced to mark their discontent with this one-sided smear campaign. As a response to the church’s “bridge building”, they cut the official ties to the Swedish Church, at the ongoing conference “Tools for Peace” aimed at working towards peaceful solutions.

May 17 – The State Radio informs the Swedish people about the Jewish soccer team filing complaints of harassment.

“A boys soccer team from the Jewish sports association IK Makkabi has been harassed by players from Iftin KoIF during a game in Stockholm last weekend. The Iftin players among other things supposedly yelled “Death to the Jews”…. According to the complaint IK Makkabi sent to the Stockholm Football Association, the players then kept screaming during the game “Death to the Jews”, “Crush Zionism” and “We will fight you after the game”.
The referee had never seen anything like this ever before.
Ekot spoke to the referee of the game, and he confirms the issues of the complaint. He does not want to make any comments on tape, but says that he has never heard anything like it.
When the game was over the harassments went on but now in the form of physical violence, tells Andreas Körösi.
- In connection with the traditional way of thanking for the game their team captain stroke a fist blow against one of our players, and then two, tree others also attacked”…

SvD felt compelled to testify with an editorial.

“All soccer games are framed by a certain ritual with emphasis on good sportsmanship. In the ritual it also includes that the team captains thanks for a good game. The team captain in the Spånga team Iftin KOIF also did this after a game for 15 year olds in the S:t Eriks Coup.
The words went like this:
“We thank the Jews and their referee.”
After this several of his teammates threw themselves at the players in the Jewish sports association IK Makkabi's team (DN 17/6).

Is this really Sweden? A country where people of Jewish descendance need to hide their identity in order to evade persecutions? It’s a sign of the time. A remarkably worrisome one. The association members of Iftin KoIF are mainly Muslims of Somali origin. Next to Nazis and the communistic anti-Semitism that exists, as Mikael Tossavainen points out in his publication Hatred Denied (the Swedish Committee Against anti-Semitism, 2003) there is an increasing variety with Muslim signs. This is, in turn, a reflection of that very anti-Semitism which for decades has been an official ideology in the Middle East, and which stands on the extremist Muslims’ agenda. It’s sad that Muslim leaders in Sweden do not firmly condemn such acts, and that they don’t seem to be against it all that much.

Anti-Semitism is an international phenomenon, but conclusively, also in Swedish, the Jew hate is found on homepages and chat rooms, but it also expresses itself through violence; attacks, vandalizing, threats, harassments. Like the elderly storeowner in Malmö who has been subjected to smashed store windows, swastika graffiti, chants like “fucking Jew” and finally also fist blows (Sydsvenska Dagbladet 17/6).

Typical enough, attacks from different groups coincide with local demonstrations against Israel. It is a continuous pretext that individuals in Sweden are being held responsible for the State of Israel’s existence or its politics. In connection with the soccer game in the S:t Eriks Coup the chanting went “death to the Jews”, “[Long] Live Palestine” and “destroy Zionism”.

Another example is about a young substitute teacher, who was subjected to insults and threats because of her being Jewish. Included in that incident is a connection between the Jew hate and Israel. The school didn’t want to touch the matter; “there was one teacher who spoke up, but others meant that I needed to understand the reason for the hatred with regards to what is going on in the Middle East. (Sydsvenska Dagbladet 24/6).”

This “understanding” illustrates that the anti-Semitism can thrive in the one-sided criticism of Israel, which the politically correct establishment has been working on for years; the same establishment that now perceives the spreading of democracy in the Middle East as evil. But the Jew hate can never be excused.”

Who is in charge in Sweden regarding these issues? The Social Democratic minister Mona Sahlin held the title minister of integration and minister of sports at this time. The same Sahlin who only months earlier testified “…and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander”. She now seems to lack the will to comment on this incident, since nothing has been heard from her at all on this issue. The same day the report about the soccer game was published in Sweden, ISM reported from the West Bank, i.e. Judea and Samaria:

…“During the demonstrations against the building of the wall at Iskaka on the West Bank, the ISM activist Andreas Malm was arrested”...

Andreas Malm is well known to some of the Swedish audience, foremost after he wrote his (by some) praised book “A Bulldozer Against a People” (released by Agora that happens to be one of the sub-affiliations of the Arena Group which was behind the first boycott campaign in 2002) and is the local branch starter of the Swedish ISM office. He was also rewarded the 2003 prize by the Björn Afzelius foundation, because of his book and “commitment” described as “the first from the outside who managed to get inside the refugee camp in Jenin after the massacre there, the book builds on these experiences…”
This is exactly the same ISM organization that earlier has been connected with events where foreigners from other European countries have protected armed terrorists and even killing and maiming Israeli civilians. The same ISM that has public support from Swedish political parties, in coalition position with the ruling government. Like many others, Andreas Malm seems to be living like a parasite, sponging off on a conflict that he himself has no real visible connection to whatsoever, probably to further a career of his own, with the visible results in the form of the continuing spreading of biased propaganda and outright fabrications along with the usual accusations against the Israeli people. If ISM really was a solidarity movement, dedicated to working against the “wrongs of the world”, then how come there is not one single ISM activist in Darfour, Sudan, where a real genocide has taken place against Muslims during 2004?

So what did Andreas Malm do this time in order to create headlines for himself? He went to a foreign country again, Israel, the only democracy in the entire Middle East that is at a continuous war against terrorism. Terrorists, I might remindingly add, who have the outspoken intentions of the annihilation of that very state. It might be a coincidence that it just happens to be the only Jewish state in the entire world. The praised ISM activist was found where attacks occurred, and if the photos don’t lie, while Andreas Malm are instigating violence against Israeli security forces, reported by Professor Steven Plaut in Front Page Magazine.

In Israel the reality of the new millennium has been that 18-year-old (or young) men in the army are facing rioting crowds running amok, terrorists who put minors at the front as stone throwers, and thus protecting the heavily armed terrorists and snipers at the back, while under a rain of stones, these young soldiers are taking live fire and facing life threatening situations. If the IDF should return the fire, and some of the young stone throwers get wounded or even killed in the clashes, the condemnations against Israel know no limits.

But let’s turn all that around. What would Swedish politicians and Swedish police think if foreign citizens came to Sweden with the intention to instigate and start public riots and violence against the upholders of the law? There is already an answer to that, since it has already happened during the Gothenburg riots in 2001. Swedish police opened fire with live ammunition (not rubber bullets), ammunition designed to kill, against unarmed youths (i.e. they had no AK47 machineguns, but some were armed with rocks, clubs and sticks) to disperse the crowds, and the politicians handed out roses afterwards to congratulate the police force for a well performed service. It was more luck than anything else that no innocent bystander got hit. And in Israel, the country that some Swedish politicians and journalist love to bash and slander, a situation like this, where the demonstrators haven’t got handguns or bombs, this is by comparison a walk in the park.

June 28 – News that the incitement and harassment case is dropped, the investigation is shut down and the Jew hater Ahmed Rami is freed from any indictment since the prosecutor was not able to link him to the web site. The prosecutor had him under investigation since the website had published a list of some four thousand names, where one could read: “Does Israel have a political mafia network in Sweden which undemocratically rules the free word in the country?” The prosecutor stated in her decision that “Ahmed Rami is the ideologist behind the text but denies all involvement that his text is spread in this way. Which part, if any, he himself has had in the construction of the homepage has not been possible to show, nor if any other person involved.” In DN Rami previously stated on December 17 “I have not published this information, and it’s not my homepage”.

Swedish memorial foundations hands out more prizes , this time it’s the first one from the murdered former foreign minister Anna Lindh’s newly set up memorial fund:

“Amira Hass winner of the first Anna Lindh award

Anna Lindh’s memorial foundation has allotted the Israeli Journalist Amira Hass the first Anna Lindh award. The motivation: In her uncompromising reports from the West Bank and Gaza, the Ha’aretz journalist Amira Hass contributes by increasing the understanding for the situation of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation. By informing the Israeli public about daily life in Palestine she contributes by creating the conditions for a meaningful dialogue.”
The grant will be handed out yearly to a person, organization or a project that works in the spirit of Anna Lindh. The grant is this year 250 000 SEK. “

So Amira Hass is praised and rewarded by a:

…”foundation has no affiliation to any political party. The members of the board, who work on a voluntary basis, represent different spheres of society – politics, the private sector, the unions, the Church and the cultural sphere.”…

So what about the foundation members, who are they? The one representing the Church is KG Hammar, the Swedish archbishop, head of the Swedish Church who is the instigator of several boycott campaigns against Israel alone. So who is the lucky prizewinner this time? A simple online Internet search on her name, and the word “bias” turns up a page from the AAD (Arabs Against Discrimination) covering this piece of news, with something that seems to be ordinary Israeli readers’ opinions, such as:

“Any regular person who hates Israel can win a prize in exchange for a few articles that incite against Israel”— Itzik.

“It’s not because she’s very smart. Anyone who hates Israel gets money from Europe — we shouldn’t let her into Israel.”

“A prize for journalistic trash”— A.

“Sweden is the most anti-Semitic nation in Europe after France — Amira: move to Sweden!”

“Go live with the Swedes. That’s your place, not here, Israel-hater.”

Any truth to these harsh words? A couple of months earlier, before the Swedish award ceremony, the organization Take-A-Pen gave Hass a virtual award also:

”May 30, 2004

HA'ARETZ is the liar of the month for May 2004 at Take-A-Pen, for its 'achievements' in Amira Hass’ article "One step ahead of the bulldozer".
The title 'Liar of the month, published on our site www.take-a-pen.org, is being translated into 15 languages. This is the first time the title goes to an Israeli newspaper…”

Is this a well know common view amongst Israelis? Professor Steven Plaut was not shy with his judgment concerning Hass and the paper she works for, a year earlier:

…“The journalists of Ha’aretz are best represented by Gideon Levy and Amira Hass, people who dream of their country being dismembered and replaced by a Palestinian state from the sea to the river. Ha’aretz is as pluralistic as Pravda was when Stalin was alive. Professor Arnon Sofer has suggested that it change its name to al-Ard (Arabic for “the land”, “Ha’aretz” in Hebrew). For every 150 or so pieces by far-leftist anti-Zionists, it runs one symbolic balancing piece from the right, usually by Moshe Arens.”…

Let’s see what the media watch organizations have on the journalist Hass. The US based executive director at CAMERA had this to say about this specific prizewinner and her paper, years before the Swedish prize:

“Although Ha’aretz bills itself as “an independent newspaper with a broadly liberal outlook,” many of the opinion writers and some reporters espouse views of the extreme far left, and factual accuracy is often sacrificed to their political predilections. Reporter Amira Hass, for example, has just been ordered by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court to pay $60,000 in damages to the Jewish community of Hebron for her false and incendiary report that Jewish residents there had abused the corpse of a dead Arab shot by Israeli border police in a violent incident. The allegations were disproved by multiple televised accounts of the event.

The same reporter’s stories, replete with distorted and inaccurate charges that Israel is a “apartheid” state, steals Palestinian water, callously targets Palestinians over the age of 12 with sniper-fire, and generally subjugates Arabs out of sheer viciousness, are posted on countless anti-Israel websites.”

It seems the Swedish prize winner, Amira Hass, is someone well known and who has been convicted after been proved serving slanderous lies a couple years earlier – but this has been omitted to the ignorant Swedish audience. Maybe the prize money can cover some of her legal expenses and pay the fines for her previously published lies and outrageous slander. It is now quite obvious why she was elected by the Swedish boycotting head of church and the board members.

On a side note: In my own personal humble opinion a suggestion for a far better prize candidate would be the former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat, an Arab speaking the truth about his former life in the PLO. He has published a book “Israel and the world mock trial “ (online), and he is an honest man, giving lectures and teaching all over US campuses on the islamofascist terrorism threatening world peace. Or why not to the Lebanese victim of Arafat’s Jihad soldiers who destroyed her homeland, the Arab Maronite Brigitte Gabriel , founder of the American Congress for Truth.

The European based media watch organization Honest Reporting also had Hass up the same year for the same thing, then they put together a short list of some recent media ongoing events regarding Sweden after a derogatory “satire” cartoon of a Chassidic Jew emerged in the newspaper DN. The Sweden based journalist Robert Skole sums it up:

“Some publications do try to be honest – like Svenska Dagbladet, a morning daily, and magazines like the Jewish Chronicle. But with a Jewish community of about 15,000, compared with the 300 000-400 000 Muslims in Sweden (with a total population of 9 million), the voices of fairness towards Israel are, Skole says, 'whispers against a hurricane.'”

But why blame this particular cartoonist, he must have believed it was okay since only three years earlier the Swedish government’s cultural department rewarded another artist, Lars Hillersberg (infamous for his anti-Semitic “satire” and the one who illustrated the cover for the book by Radio Islam/Ahmed Rami), and secured a lifetime income guarantee, a decision which a large portion of the cultural editors and self-proclaimed experts defended fiercely.

When ordinary Swedish Jews, as private persons, try to express and voice their concern in the Swedish media by sending in protests or smaller factual corrective editorials, they often, very often, get letters of rejection. I have one myself from DN, which I received after the public urgent call “Isolate the apartheid state of Israel” by “200 signatories” bragging about “the article hasn’t been counter pointed, probably due to its factual solid ground”. The whole tale was riddled with the usual historic distortions and one-sided regular Israel bashing and usual condemnations. My counter pointing with elementary known facts was met with the editor’s usual rejection letter that so many Swedish Jews receive after being publicly challenged, stating that “due to lack of space there is no room…”. However it always seems to be some room available if it happens to be some of the few Jews that criticize Israel who want a word in. Dror Feiler and the ones from his little organization JIPF as leading example is proof of just that. Now that papers have to select which articles they choose it’s fully understandable. But that problem can be worked around as some stories starts to be circulated in English-speaking media outside Sweden regarding the Swedish situation for the minority of its Jews.

July 8 – Finally Sweden, after years of complaining and arguing during huge public debates, with support ranging from Gustaf Fridolin, as member of the board of the Guantanamo Group, to Thomas Hammarberg and Tamas Gellert from the Olof Palme Center, bring home its citizen Mehdi Ghezali. The particular group responsible for this is lead by a journalist, Gösta Hultén, who published on his webpage” A Swede in a concentration camp – without charges or verdict” (December 2002). The Swedish government sent its official government aircraft, and the cost for bringing Ghezali home was over half a million SEK. Everyone seemed to be happy, even the foreign minister Freivalds seemed to enjoy the media attention, praising the “Swedish persistency”. During the press conference later on, on the subject of Sweden’s outcries during the past years, Ghezali himself seemed confused however, and was being prompted (or “assisted” if one wants to put it diplomatically) by the Guantanamo Group’s chairman, the journalist Gösta Hultén, who whispered in his ear what to say, obvious for everyone to see. The press conference itself was criticized by a journalist, since the same Hultén had decided who would be allowed to attend and who would not, and who was allowed to take photographs etcetera (DN was barred). In the same article one could also read that already in 1983 he had published a book called “The Media Left” with co-author the now infamous PhD Samuelsson (mentioned earlier), the same Samuelsson who later thought it justified to hate Swedish Jews.
Ghezali says at the conference that he will have no problems returning to a normal life in Sweden. One week later the same Hultén attacks the press for being “hostile to immigrants” in an article in Aftonbladet. The “Guantanamo Group” was not unified later, after the press conference, regarding the proposed innocence of Ghezali. As a matter of fact only one out of six who were asked were reported to think then that he actually was innocent. In the same article is was made clear that Hultén informs (through his wife) that Ghezali doesn’t want to answer any further questions and has gone into hiding from journalists. Later the Foreign Ministry releases previously classified documents, as reported:

…“In the Foreign Ministry’s report there were many issues that were “hard to explain” in Ghezali’s story ‘His lack of memory is extensive, and he says that he can’t remember things that he reasonably shouldn’t have forgotten. If Ghezali speaks the truth he has, for example, traveled around the world without knowing or caring about where he was going, or with whom.’”…

Later Thomas Hammarberg at the Palme Center informs that the Guantanamo group has dissolved. At the group’s webpage this is also confirmed and it states that the website will be shut down. Ghezali had become a Swedish citizen in 1988 (he was born in 1979) and his father had said that his son went to Algeria to do “army service” when being arrested in Portugal on suspicions of armed bank robbery, and he then later emerged in Afghanistan. Ghezali had traveled extensively around Europe, yet he never held down a job, and claimed that he got some funding from the Swedish employment office. The lawyer Peter Ahltin will handle the case and mean to sue the US for millions on behalf of his client.

Meanwhile the infamous Butcher of Baghdad, the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, responsible for several brutal aggression wars, including the scud bombing of Israeli cities in 1991, and the weight of the slaughter of millions of people in the Middle East on his conscience (including medieval torture chambers), now wants to go to Sweden for some strange reason.

” The former Iraqi dictator wants to be in a Swedish jail. The reason is the short sentence time and the comfortable prisons, says his lawyer… The reason is also Sweden’s humane criminal care system… You have very short sentence times and the prisons seem more comfortable than many other places”…

Indeed, only three weeks later DN reports: “It feels like they [the inmates] have hotel standard”. A liberal MP politician and member of the board of the correctional system complained about the new prison in Kolmården, a former hospital. It is a well-known fact that Swedish prisons at this time have better standards regarding the inmates, than the Swedish schoolchildren have, or the social and medical care for old people.

Then the feared and sought after leader for Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, made an appearance on video tape, and the tabloid Aftonbladet explained “He spares Sweden” under the headline “Will not attack Sweden” and quoting from the speech: “If Bush says we hate freedom, then let him explain why we didn’t attack Sweden for example”.

After compiling this information, from publicly available sources to anyone with a computer and Internet connection, for a period of less than three years, a pattern emerges in this puzzle. It is forming a picture that is neither very encouraging for the Jews of Sweden, nor flattering for the Swedish society at large, regarding the situation of the Swedish Jews.
Despite the fact that 14-year-old youngsters tell about harassment, stories that are made public in personal in-depth interviews, and despite urgent calls aimed directly at the government, they are met with deafening and devastating silence. The collective establishment, along with certain media and politicians in charge together with the church speak volumes of silence. A silence that only can be perceived as acknowledgement. Generations of Swedish Jews seem to be betrayed by their own country of birth.

These individual events lead to a clear and visible pattern, and Sweden is just a microcosm in Europe. In other news, from the neighboring country Norway, comes other worrying news about how the situation has changed for the Jews there. A small notice appeared two years after the urgent call where all Nordic Jewish representatives two years earlier felt compelled to write a letter of protest to all Nordic governments.

“Pressurized: Young Jews leave Norway

About 50 per cent of all young Jews in Norway choose to move abroad as they feel that anti-Semitism has increased significantly in Norway during the last couple of years.
Rolf Kirschner, director at Det Mosaiske Trossamfunn in Oslo, says he is worried as more and more young Jews choose to leave Norway, reports the paper Vårt Land [Our Land].
Kirschner claims that media contributes to stigmatize Jews, and he stresses that there are three main reasons why young Jews move abroad.
‘Some want to study abroad, others want a larger Jewish environment, and some feel the increased pressure against Jews’, Kirschner said.
He also said that many Jews are afraid to wear religious symbols and says that anti-Semitism is increasing in Norway. Kirschner claims that the media is responsible for a large part of it.
‘It is not very pleasant to follow news media so one-sided, and many times, with a hurtful angle’, Kirschner said to the paper. ‘The way I see it, Israel is treated differently in many countries. Norwegian media should focus to a larger degree on other conflicts, in addition to the Middle East conflict.’”

The occupying Nazis wanted a Judenrein Europe, and the Nordic region might finally be on the way towards it now. It also seems that Swedish mainstream media have somewhat reluctantly been taking in views from regular Jews, Jews who aren’t set out to bash Israel. These days Swedish Jews seem to be granted media space in Israeli dailies instead, when the need arises. As it does frequently, at an ever increasing rate.

Earlier this year even the Israeli paper Ha’aretz had published a personal story regarding the Swedish Jews’ situation.

“Daniel Schechner, a 21-year-old law student from Stockholm, makes sure to conceal even the slightest hint of his Jewish identity when he goes out in public.

When he says that he has a double identity, he means that at work, school and in the street he would not voluntarily reveal his religious belonging. He uses his non-Jewish last name, which he asks the reporter not to reveal. He does not dream of walking down the street wearing a skullcap, a Star of David or a T-shirt with Hebrew on it, and when he went to Israel, he told people in Sweden that he went to another, different country.

Schechner says that when he and his friends speak about ‘Jewish’ subjects like the synagogue or kashrut, they use code words. Nevertheless, the camouflage doesn’t always provide perfect protection. … Schechner, whose grandfather came to Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century, says that until three years ago, he was deeply rooted in the Swedish society, but that he is not so sure anymore that Jews have a future in this country. ‘I have a hard time with the idea that there is anti-Semitism here,’ he says. ‘But I have an even harder time with the unwillingness I feel from the Swedish establishment, to deal with the roots of the hatred that is directed towards the Jews living here.’”…

Another example is of course the Jewish boy Nadav Meyer who earlier bravely set an example for the Swedish situation, and stood up and spoke of his sad experiences. He was thereafter continuously being attacked in the streets, and his father has since then instead become even more active in English and Israeli media; one article sums up some of his family’s fate, since the Swedish political media establishments seem to be ignoring the situation in Sweden for harassed Jewish citizens.

…”Either Freivalds is severely out of touch with reality, or she is being somewhat flexible with the truth.

Here are the facts: For an anti-Semitic crime to work its way into the statistics by which Freivalds sets such store, Swedish law requires that there be 10 witnesses. The reason is that racial hatred has to have been spread for it to constitute a crime of incitement. If it is not spread (to the requisite number of witnesses), there is no crime to prosecute. Case closed.

I speak from personal experience. Several cases involving anti-Semitic attacks by Muslim youths on my 13-year-old son have been closed for precisely this reason. If the required number of witnesses cannot be furnished, the case does not get as far as court. Nor does it get to court if the perpetrators are too young to be prosecuted – which, unfortunately, describes a significant proportion of the perpetrators.

Freivalds went on to claim that “statistics are kept, and published annually. According to the latest figures, the number of anti-Semitic crimes in Sweden is declining.” Ms. Freivalds is apparently oblivious of the following: Most anti-Semitic crime in Sweden is perpetrated by youngsters of Arab and Muslim background. If they are under age, the case does not go to court – so it does not figure in Ms. Freivalds’ statistics. If the gangs attack a solitary Jew (usually a youngster), then here too there is no means of bringing a case against the perpetrators without the requisite number of witnesses. Again, such incidents do not make it into Freivalds’ statistics.”…

He later testifies in an interview that some of his other children feel more safe serving in the Israeli Defense Forces than walking down a street on Swedish soil.

“His elder siblings came to Israel and joined the army, declaring that it was safer for them to serve in the IDF than to be exposed to what is happening in Sweden.”.

The matter with the problem of 10 witnesses is noticed also at the Swedish-Israeli Information organization where the Jewish spokespersons in a joint letter with the father write:

“… To act in a situation that apparently demands ten witnesses for the crime to be proven [according to the HMF (similar to US hate speech) law].”

Is there any truth to this? If not, then where are the prosecutions and convictions against Muslim Arabs in Sweden for such violence, hate speech and incitements, and other breachings of such laws, when verbally/physically attacking the, supposedly protected by law, minority of Swedish Jews? Are there any prosecutions or convictions to be found at all at the beginning of this millennium, with over a hundred filed police complaints every year? What kind of signals does this send out to the perpetrators, and to the victims? There has been a lot of talk about the anti-Semitism in France. The reported statistics in Sweden speak for themselves. France has 600 000 Jews and 6 million Muslims. Sweden has about 18 000 Jews and 400 000 Muslims.
Sweden 2003: 128 incidents with ties to anti-Semitism are reported to the police.
France 2003: 247 anti-Semitic attacks are reported according to the French Interior Ministry.
France has both acknowledged the problem and even started to address it with legislations. So what vile crimes have the Swedish Jews, youngsters as well as Holocaust survivors, committed in order to deserve this ongoing hate campaign against them for years on end on Swedish soil?

November 10 – After the arch terrorist billionaire and corrupt dictator Yassir Arafat finally dies in a French hospital after weeks of media charades, the Swedish new FM Freivalds, goes public as the first one to do so, and as usual with her political finger-tip sense, in the Swedish media, declaring her mourning on the State Radio that it is “with great sorrow she has received the message that Yassir Arafat has passed away, Arafat who embodied the struggle for a Palestinian state”.

November 19 – On behalf of the upcoming elections in the disputed areas, FM Freivalds proclaims that the (even classified by EU) terrorist group Hamas could very well be considered to legitimately participate in the PA elections “as long as they renounce terror”. Hamas later announces that they will not participate. It’s doubtful if the FM would dare to equally endorse al-Qaeda on the same premises to run for office in the Afghan state elections.

December 12 – It’s reported in an official press statement from the Uppsala Social Democratic local office, in co-operation with the Palme Center:

“Five representatives from our sister party Al-Fatah in Palestine visits Uppsala this week.”

The plan was for the “sister party” Al-Fatah to go on an informational tour, visiting Swedish schoolchildren. Later AP publishes more images coming from Hebron depicting various situations regarding “the sister party’s” other representatives, doing “party” saluting, Nazi-style.

The year ends with the US Department of State releasing yet another lengthy report, regarding the global anti-Semitism, where Sweden once again is honored with a chapter of its own.

My relatives in Israel had at this time claimed, somewhat stunned, that it was apparently safer to be in Israel than to be in Europe. And I agree when thinking of the new millennium and what had happened in it so far. At least in Israel they don’t have to be afraid of being assaulted and beaten in the streets for wearing a Star of David necklace. Pondering the new situation, one comes to another conclusion:

It’s safer to be an Arab Israeli citizen in Israel, than it is to be a Swedish Jew in Europe.

Continue to chapter, The swedish journalists

2003

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January 17, 2003. The year begins with KG Hammar, the Swedish archbishop, holding the highest rank in a official position within the Swedish church, an organization with more than 7 million (of 9 million Swedes in total) as automatic members, together with the Swedish ambassador to Germany, Carl Tham, and 73 other signatories (including the controversial self proclaimed artist Dror Feiler and Gudrun Schyman, leader and MP for the Left party) go public in DN in a urgent call for an open trade boycott aimed at the state of Israel.

“Stop buying Israeli products”

…“This cycle of violence must be stopped. Both parties must respect human rights, the Geneva Convention and International Law. The Israeli occupation is a permanent violation of and a crime against international law, which has continued over 3 decades. The occupation is the basic problem and the cause of the Palestinian intifada.”…

So it is the occupation that came first, according to the signatories. Once again we have an example of distinguished and prominent persons with little or no knowledge of the situation and a rather distorted view of elementary historical facts, but as a common nominator mainly put the blame on Israel for defending herself. Nothing is mentioned to the readers that when Israel in a defensive war, first after being attacked by the surrounding Arab dictatorships, also liberated these areas from the former illegal Arab occupation – and they so did legally according to principles of International Law. The ‘no terror could equal no occupation’ concept also seems to be hard to grasp for these self-righteous and self-proclaimed critics.

…“Boycott goods from occupied territories. We urge citizens, people’s movements, unions, consumers’ organizations, parties, and companies to boycott merchandise from the illegal Israeli settlements. To buy and trade with Israeli goods from occupied territories is to actively support the illegal Israeli occupation. It is also a crime against International Law.”…

This is a call to the entire Swedish society in the largest morning paper in the country, from an official Swedish ambassador and the highest-ranking spokesperson for the Swedish church. They not only manage to impose their clumsy interpretations of international law…:

…“Terminate the EU trade agreement with Israel. EU has a beneficial trade contracts with the EU area. That gives Israel freedom of trade within the EU area. In the agreement there are regulations of respect towards human rights and democracy. As long as Israel doesn’t show respect for life, freedom of movement and property, the trade agreement should be aborted.”…

… but they also omit important details; not one word is mentioned about why Israel imposes actions in the disputed areas. Not a single line of condemnation of the Arab terrorist atrocities that plague the civilians in Israel, or what punishment is best suited for those terrorists. Instead they demand that the areas from where the terrorist often come, with the sole intention to mass murder Jews, shall have “freedom of movement”, or that the EU otherwise should punish Israel with trade embargos.

The Swedish ambassador Carl Tham manages to mark the 70th anniversary of the German nationwide boycotts against the ancient people of Israel, Jews, initiated by Adolph Hitler himself on April 1, 1933, on the year, only missed by a month and a half. Needless to say, some of the Germans and most of the Jews aren’t too happy with this coincidence and the behavior of the Swedish Ambassador to Germany. It sure does bring back bad memories.

The leader of the political party Christian Democrats, Alf Svensson, is the first to comment on this, the day after in Expressen where he demands that Carl Tham either apologizes or resigns from his post as Swedish ambassador. But why blame Ambassador Tham; his political sense, as well as himself, is already known to some as not exactly being the brightest. He obviously must have thought that it was OK since the previous call for boycott, only tree weeks before during the Christmas holiday, from the youth movement leader Mikael Damberg at the SSU campaign that went by uncommented, and perhaps even silently acknowledged by the Swedish Foreign Office. On January 30, the reply to the written questions 2002/03:417 arrives on the Foreign Ministry’s actions regarding a trade boycott against Israel and question No 427 regarding the ambassador to Germany. The foreign minister Anna Lindh’s message was that she had “spoken with Carl Tham and clarified that I and the government are not in agreement with regards to the perception of a boycott against Israel which he has openly expressed, but I have not taken any action. I still trust Carl Tham and his ability to represent Sweden and look after Swedish interests in Germany.”

On February 3, 2003, there is a response from 223 signatories, both Christians and Jews, who together mark their discontent with the Swedish archbishop in DN headlined:” The Church supports anti-Jewish sanctions.”.

On February 4, 2003, a more thorough response to the Swedish archbishop is presented. The signatories this time consists of several MP’s at Parliament, including several from the Christian Democrats in DN, the article bearing the headline: “The blame cannot one-sidedly be put on Israel.”.Both the ambassador and the archbishop still hold their posts afterwards, without having to apologize to anyone.

On March 27, the Swedish Security police (SÄPO) reports :

“Security situation in Sweden

With the background of the now ongoing USA-lead war in Iraq, the Security police have made the estimation of the security situation in Sweden. The estimations are based on known facts.

International terrorism

There aren’t in today’s situation any indications of any planned terrorist acts in Sweden. However, the security police have since September 11, 2001 made the assessment that in general there does exist a higher threat in Sweden, aimed at persons, organizations or buildings with connections to USA, Great Britain or Israel. (Threat level 3 on a 5-graded scale). The estimation of a higher threat derives from the Islamic terror networks transnational characteristics together with its documented hostile attitude against foremost USA and Israel.

On April 27 the Malmö mosque is burned to the ground, the mosque that is host to Sweden’s largest Muslim community, in what later was revealed to be arson. Someone with a key had managed to get in and poured flammable liquid on the floor inside the main entrance and set it on fire. The event, of course, became a series of installments in Sweden’s southern largest paper, Sydsvenskan, which had a continuous theme for about half a year regarding the investigation.
A report in the paper claims that threats were made during the firefighters’ attempts to extinguish the fire. In an interview with the managing director of the mosque on May 2, he tries to explain the strange behavior and he has already been put at the scene – as an aggressor – in fact the only one identified by a police officer.

“Threats close of stopping extinguishing of fire

…Bejzat Becirov, Managing Director for Islamic Center. He is the only one that directly has been identified in the report from the leader of Malmö firefighters’ rescue squad of the violence and the threats his personnel were subjected to, between last Saturday and Sunday. In total it was a number of around ten individuals who insulted, threatened and spat at the firefighters.
Last night a police complaint was issued as a result. The criminal classifications are “assault against civil servants” and “crimes against the rescue service law”. Filing the complaints was one of the police officers on duty to protect the firefighters.”

On June 27, the staff chief of the Malmö police is quoted by Sydsvenskan’s reporter: The police have called for precautions by their commanding officers.

“The Police have orders to take continued precautions after threats of revenge after the mosque fire has been presented. – The threats are from those circles that dislike the policemen’s hunt for the perpetrators and leads to the inner circles within the Islamic Center.”

Whatever the questions might be, it’s astounding that firefighters are being assaulted while trying to do their job in order to save the mosque from the consuming flames. Even more astounding is the fact that upholders of the law seem not only to feel the need to issue warnings, but also do just that and go public with it, and this because a religious group on Swedish soil might not like what the police might find while conducting their work. At the back of the burned down building someone had sprayed a Star of David, the Jewish symbol, one day before the fire broke out. No perpetrator was ever found by the police after they had completed their investigations.

However, approximately 20 hours after the mosque burned down, unknown perpetrator(-s) threw a Molotov cocktail, a firebomb, into the Jewish burial chapel in Malmö.
Here it is clear from the beginning that this is an arson attempt. Whoever the perpetrator(-s) was in either case was never known (when this was written). On May 15, the police claim that they are close to a solution of the arson attempt against the Jewish chapel. In all of this however, the police never reported anything about being subjected to threats from any Jewish spokespersons or private individuals.

The street festival. On May 5, the left oriented group “Reclaim the Streets” organizes a “street festival” in the center of Stockholm. “Street festival” is the word they like to use to describe their gatherings. Property at the cost of 2,5 million SEK was either destroyed or plundered when the hooligans ran amok and smashed department store windows. In loudspeakers that the left oriented youth (popularly now called and referred to as “Destroy the City”) have brought with them, their message is pumped out over the broken glass on Kungsgatan in the city center: “A tribute to the Palestinian people”.

Terrorists are being recruited amongst Göteborg’s younger Muslims, according to deputy chief of the Swedish security police P O Hellquist in Göteborg. Quote: “We should not believe ourselves to be safe here, especially regarding how badly we have failed with our integration in this country.”

The Stockholm mosque and incitement to mass murder
On August 21, 2003, the liberal youth movement chairman Fredrik Malm tells in a chronicle published in DN, that during the summer he had listened to sermons in Stockholm’s largest mosque.

…“Preaching mass murder in Swedish mosque

Complaints regarding incitement to terrorism aimed at Israelis have been filed by the chairman of LUF, Fredrik Malm. At the mosque at Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm an influential extremist preacher has held a conference. The statements given in the mosque can be viewed as pure agitation and incitement to mass murder. It was all about urgent calls for murder and suicide terrorism at a large scale. All Israelis was defined as legitimate targets for attacks. The urgent calls for terror can be prosecuted and therefore I now file a police complaint. Muslims in Sweden ought to be devastated that their mosque has become a center for this kind of hate sermons.”

A reply has been prepared and is presented in the paper the same day. The reply comes from Ahmed Ghanem, in charge of the Stockholm mosque. “We dissociate from suicide attacks” reads the headline, but the text speaks mainly about other things. And what about the much talked of “dissociation”, how about actually condemning incitement to terror – terror that often has led to, and usually continues to lead to, more terror?

“Ahmed Ghanem, chairman of the Islamic society in Sweden, claims that the statements of terrorism and suicide bombings never took place in the Stockholm mosque. We are totally against suicide attacks. Quite the opposite; we call for a dialogue, and we wish to be part of Swedish society. As I gather the text must be wrongly translated, or someone must have intentionally rewritten it in order to serve other political means, he says.
What Fredrik Malm and Jan Björklund claim does not correspond at all. The European council was here for five days in July. But it was a regular meeting between theologians that discuss problems that Muslims in Europe are faced with, says Mahmoud Aldebe, informant for the Islamic society in Sweden;

I criticize the Liberal party (Folkpartiet) for using immigrant hostile politics, the mosque’s task is to perform religious services and social activities and not the things described in the article, says Mahmoud Aldebe.

Ahmed Ghanem says that Muslims, Jews and Christians on Wednesday sat together at Bommersvik and discussed details about a conference to be held in Sweden next year.

- It is about conflict and violence not replacing peace. On the contrary, one calls for collective work towards peace. A statement such as the one Malm and Björklund propose has not occurred, but what was dealt with were questions about integrity and family issues.

- I can guarantee that there never existed any statements of terrorism and suicide bombings in our mosque, and there never will either, says Ahmed Ghanem.”

Now is the first time we hear claims that Muslims are calling for a “dialogue” – which all sounds relevant and nice. Then follows the excuse: “The text must be wrongly translated” and “or one”, it is uncertain who Ahmed is referring to exactly. An accusation: “… has intentionally rewritten” – that someone else has falsified the Muslim’s message? They had “a regular meeting”. If the Muslim representative informer’s view is that this is a “regular meeting” one has reason to be concerned if there is any truth at all to Malm’s statement. The whole affair is then rounded up with the Liberal party as a collective being accused of “ using immigrant hostile politics”[sic!]. Experts follow up with assurances , which are stated in DN on August 22, regarding doubts and that the mosque might be a terrorist nest. This is also followed up by several more accusations against the liberal Fredrik Malm in the same paper (DN) on August 26.

“Fredrik Malm agitates against Muslims

The Islamic Association in Sweden firmly rejects LUF-chairman Fredrik Malm’s claims in the DN debate 21/8 that the Stockholm mosque is used to encourage terror.
Such statements are expression of prejudice and is a direct defamation and calls for extreme actions against the mosque.”

Altogether it wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that the Islamic representatives dodged the accusations, and that their main reaction instead was to respond with counter attacking in various statements. In just one sentence they stated that they were against suicide terror but that was only when asked directly. One could contemplate that if someone were being accused of being for terrorism, they would use all available means to firmly reject such accusations. For instance, have there even been any remotely similar accusations against Jews; that rabbis would use a synagogue to preach in favor of mass murders against Muslims? Ever?
Malm’s perception obviously had to be checked; perhaps he had misunderstood, or interpreted something mistakenly? On September 4, an article published in the same paper by “Amin Rostorn” (a made up name since “the author has chosen to write under a pseudonym in order to not put himself in danger”. Such is the climate in Sweden these days, even for Muslims that really are righteous. The conclusions were as follows:

“Muslim about the mosque meeting:

I’m a believing Muslim and I live in Sweden, I read Arabic, Swedish and English fluently. I have read Fredrik Malm’s article in the DN Debate-section and also Ahmed Ghanem’s response 26/8. I have read the Arabic original statement from the meeting in the paper al-Sharq al-Awsa as well as the English translation and I regard it as beyond any reasonable doubt that Fredrik Malm speaks the truth and Ahmed Ghanem does not.”

October 11. The front page of Expressen tells that the leader of the Democratic party of the Liberals has received death threats and threats aimed against Jews.

“Death threats and burning Jew hate

VÄSTERÅS. The threats against politicians are racist – and often directly aimed at Jews – one gets surprised every time, says Lars Lejonborg. On
Saturday the Liberal party leader received police protection. The reason was the serious threats he had received via seven emails to the party office. The mails were racist – and directly aimed towards Jews.”

A rare testimony by an emigrated Swedish born and bred Jew now living in Israel, is published in Sweden, due to the governmental initiated invitation to Arabs, to visit Swedish schools in order to tell children about what “it feels like being killed” by Israelis. [sic!]

“To those of you who think that I should have doubts, I want to state the following: When I say that certain Palestinians want to kill me, I don’t mean that metaphorically. What I am talking about is when Palestinians try to kill me on buses, in cars, in cafeterias and pizza parlors, in shopping malls etcetera.

When did you visit a restaurant lately or took a bus ride thinking that soon it might explode? It’s a feeling that every Israeli have every day, as soon they step outside their doors.”…

The research report. On October 20, 2003 Sverker Oredsson and Mikael Tossavainen present a research report regarding intolerance perpetrated by Muslims against Jews in Sweden. In the report alarming issues are presented but the two researchers add in a debate article what only can be considered as their own urgent appeal; in conclusion:

“Intellectuals, politicians and leading representatives of Muslim organizations in Sweden must signal their repudiation of Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism in our country — for the benefit of all.”

The Front Page Magazine publishes a translation of this article. The Washington Post also notices the report in the USA where it is concluded that Sweden now has the second largest percentage of Muslim populations in Europe. Then several Swedish writers in various newspapers and other media fiercely attack the report in various ways. When a certain Jonas Gardell wrote a denial piece, it lead to the researcher then having to sum up some other stated witness testimonies at a later point.

“After the publication of the report several Swedish Muslims and teachers have confirmed the report’s results, Nalin Pekgul and Mehmet Kaplan from the organization Swedish Young Muslims as well as Abdal Haqq Kielan, chairman of the Swedish Islamic Community, have all explained that the anti-Jewish prejudices are widely spread within parts of the Muslim minority and they expressed concerns with regards to this. In reports by Västekot [Radio news] and in GT [Göteborg evening paper] several teachers testify to the problems they have with anti-Semitism regarding certain Muslim pupils.”

But one verbal response really stood out. On October 25, 2003, the paper DN publishes an article written by Jan Samuelsson, a nationwide known academic scholar and PhD as well as an expert on Islam, as a response to the previous research report:

…“But let me say this at once. On the basis of my very close contacts with Muslims in Sweden for more than 30 years, and as a specialist on Islamic topics, I can immediately confirm that there exists what can be described as hatred or intense aversion against Jews in certain groups of Arab-speaking Muslims in Sweden.” …

So far, Jan Samuelsson, the PhD and expert on Islam, has also concluded that Oredsson/Tossavainen’s research study in fact is correct and credible in its conclusions. But that wasn’t really enough for the expert, who is himself a convert to the Islamic religion. The headline of the article is

“Muslim hate towards Jews is justified".

And he apparently felt the urge to ad his own conclusions to really enhance the message:

“This hatred is, in my opinion, both understandable, reasonable and justified.”

The meaning of this can be studied closer if one so wishes. But its pretty obvious what is meant as well as the general meaning of it. To hate Swedish Jews for what’s going on in other sovereign democracies, in other parts of the world, isn’t only just “understandable”. No, according to this “expert” it’s also “reasonable” and even “justified”. Therefore, in Sweden, in the year 2003, it was now proclaimed to be legitimate for example to hate Jewish school children, who probably haven’t yet formed any political or religious opinions whatsoever, on the basis that they happen to have been born as Jews. It can be said without any hesitation to be a rough collective insult and the so called “expert” is guilty of generalization when he puts the entire blame for the situation on an entire ethnic group – and in this case the victims themselves.
This statement of course resulted in an outcry from the Swedish Jewish representatives and friends of Israel, who then felt singled out and picked out for hate and insults. On October 28 DN published a lengthy response:

“The tolerance for anti-Semitism has increased in Swedish society. It often happens nowadays when the prejudice is denied and redefined as criticism against Israel, 43 known Swedes write in DN’s Debate-section. The 43 Swedes’ urgent call is “Jews don’t cause anti-Semitism.”

…”This is the first time after the Second World War that a leading Swedish newspaper chooses to print an article that without any editing claims that hatred against Jews is justified”…

The signatories that lent their names to the protest weren’t novices on this issue. Several of them have been known for many years as foremost experts. Per Ahlmark is the former deputy prime minister and honoree PhD at the Jerusalem university. Henrik Bachner holds a PhD in anti-Semitism. Lena Posner-Körösi is chairman of the Swedish Jewish Central Council. Jackie Jakubowski is the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Chronicle. Furthermore, several individuals among the readers immediately filed complaints to the governmental institution regarding breaching of freedom of press, to the chancellor of justice, Göran Lambertz.

The chancellor of justice however, who had “been informed of the current article”, came to another, diametrically opposite conclusion, than the distinguished signatories and representatives regarding agitation and disrespect, namely that; “the content in a debate article can not be considered agitation against an ethnic group.” And this understanding was investigated quickly. ”Decision 2003-10-29 Diary no 3331-03-03”. So quickly that it only took four days (!) for the bureaucratic red tape to come to such a decision after the article was published. The short reply came from the chancellor of justice and the “conclusion” was that:

“The reported article does not have any statements that goes beyond what is permutable to express within the framework of the freedom of press regulations. There is therefore no reason to open a preliminary investigation regarding the publishing crime of agitation against an ethnic group.”

The printed article was apparently not considered agitation or insulting to the Jewish people and their children in Sweden. What the Swedish law says about agitation against an ethnic group that was similar and resembles to US laws of hate speech:

“§8 Those who in stating or in other messages that spreads, threatens or expresses disrespects towards an ethnic group or any other such group of persons with hints of race, color of skin, national or ethnical heritage, religious belief or sexual disposition, is sentenced for agitation against an ethnic group to prison for at the most two years, or if the crime is insignificant to fines.”

So regardless of the Swedish Islamic expert’s previously written “message” in the paper, spreading this message to thousands of readers, he was of course given another opportunity and had another editorial chance to respond to the “attack” from the 43 signatories, which he also claimed to be a “censorship attempt” – after his statement was already published! And at the same time to enhance his opinion, which was not, judging by the chancellor of justice, disrespectful or insulting towards the Swedish Jews, a couple of days later. And this of course together with some crocodile tears because of some anonymous “hateful and insulting” emails he had received in the meantime.
On November 4, 2003 DN publishes his response:

“ I said it before and I say again exactly that Arabs’ hate against Jews is justified, regarding what Arabs are subjected to by the Jewish state of Israel”

Therefore, to interpret this freely, one of the protected minority groups defined by special laws, the Swedish Jews, many of whom for generations have been living in Sweden as peaceful Swedish citizens, shall all of a sudden accept that new immigrants and asylum seekers from various regions of conflicts have the right to hate them. The question of what follows in the footsteps of such hatred there is historically recorded answers to.

Strangely enough, a thorough report of some 120 pages emerges the same year, about the justice chancellor’s office. This work came from the independent Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. They present criticism regarding a pattern of the Swedish chancellors of justice that does not prosecute enough obvious cases in general.

The editors at DN, who usually rejects reader comments for publication due to “lack of space” however did manage to find some space for a certain Mr Dror Feiler, who only a year earlier signed the protest in the same paper, and who later will make himself also internationally famous, but for a different reason.

“To claim, like the “43 known Swedes” at DN debate 28/10 that anti-Semitism in Sweden often is disguised as Israel criticism, or that Israel criticism is redefined prejudice, in other words anti-Semitism, is taking it too far, That is to trying to strangle criticism against the state of Israel.

Dror Feiler
Musician and composer, born and raised in Israel, currently living in Sweden.”

But who is this expert of Islam, Jan Samuelsson PhD? According to the Writers Center he describes himself thus:

“After a shifting carrier as woodsman, harbor man, bouncer, teacher and researcher among other things, I started to write articles at the age of 37, from Folket I Bild [People in Images], Cultural Front to Svenska Dagbladet [morning paper], most of them political style articles. The political involvement also took expression in the chairmanship of the Swedish Afghan Committee and Årjäng Workers’ Municipality.”

Regarding the commercials for his services, which of course includes lectures on Islam:

“PhD Jan Samuelsson. Active as a lecturer at state administration and colleges of higher learning around Sweden. Has written several books, from novels to university literature. One of Sweden’s most learned on Islam. Has seats in several foundations and is a member of the Swedish Islamic Academy. Board member of various cultural foundations.”

According to his own CV available on his web page (as it looked before his article, after which he quickly rewrote it) the following could be read:

“PhD in religious history, Stockholm University.
Teaches at Örebro University.
Active as a lecturer for various professional groups, often in health care and schools. Has worked as a investigator for the Social Department, the National Board of Health and Welfare and the Swedish Social Insurance.”

But the PhD was also even recurring as a lecturer for the Swedish police. And that he worked for the government’s department for social services, directly. The same government that appoints the chancellor of justice. A nibbling thought that is very worrying, is what he might have taught the Swedish police and other upholders of the law, about attitudes in conflict management and hate.

On November 5, the new chairman of the Social democratic youth section (SSU) and the new foreign minister make themselves heard. The new SSU chairman Ardalan Shekarabi (of Iranian origin) was sorry the day after the PhD had his response published, together with 25 district chairmen of the SSU, because the new foreign minister Laila Freivalds was too “paralyzed” and clearly showed “passivity” as she had not spoken “clearly” enough against the Israeli democracy in a article bearing the title” Dare to stick your chin out, Freivalds”. An online search at this time on Iran/Shekarabi/SSU produces an impressing wholesome 16 hits on the SSU webpage, where he, among others, praises the Nobel prize winner Shirin Ebadi. Only one article has come during Shekarabi’s time as chairman for the SSU, speaking about the oppressive theocratic regime that has deprived students of their elementary human rights and jailed them without charges for up to five years. A search on Israel/Shekarabi/SSU reveals 43 articles, all negative, where Shekarabi is the author of several of them. It seems Shekarabi’s foreign policy consists of being more interested in slandering Israel than combating the fundamentalist from his own country of origin. However, only three days later, on November 8, 2003, in the morning paper SvD, Freivalds has heard the call from the SSU chairman to stick her chin out, and does just that. The response comes from the new Foreign Minister, and is noticed by DN. …“Obvious crimes against international law doesn’t give Israel security either”…

She is now criticizing the security fence that Israel is constructing. The new Foreign minister might be a legal expert in her civil background, but when it comes to real politics, (without blood shed) solutions or international law, she displays ignorantly that she isn’t really that well oriented. During this troublesome time in Israel, there has already been a fence constructed around Gaza, which so far has made sure that zero homicide bombers have been able to slip trough into Israel (if one disregard the two British citizens (Muslims of Pakistani origin) with ties to the organization ISM). Meanwhile hundreds off attackers has originated from the West Bank were the new fence is now being erected. So evidently the Gaza fence has worked for more than three years and has given Israel security from at least that area. But before this happened, Freivalds had listened to the urgent call from her youth chairman Shekarabi, where he encourages her to publicly criticize Israel and regardless of her abilities to predict the future with such certainty, she was utterly wrong since within a year the bombings had decreased dramatically, mainly because of the fence.

November 6, 2003. As the upcoming memorial day of the Kristallnacht is drawing near, it’s time again for the Left activists, and this time, it seems, with the blessing of the organization the Swedish Church Mission in order to plot a kidnapping of the Jewish mourning day yet again.

…“November 9 coincides with the Kristallnacht and the fall of the Berlin wall and has now been declared a international solidarity day for the Palestinian people against Israel’s wall. Therefore the Uppsala Peace Coalition this day arranges the seminar “Stop the Wall” in the Mission Church in Uppsala starting at 15:00. The seminar is closed by a torch march to the Martin Luther King square at 18:00 and among the speakers are noted society debater Bernt Jonsson, Sören Abramsson, ISM, Saama Sarspur, PFF and Adnan Abuchakra.”…

This text was based on information from the “Uppsala Peace Coalition”, as the Swedish Church Mission had informed their visitors on their web page. Apparently the “Uppsala Peace Coalition” eventually ceased to exist since they had several internal disputes, according to the “revolutionary“ section in Uppsala, who links the image brand of Uppsala Peace Coalition to the Syndicalist network, which was later discontinued. That the “Revolution is the Swedish section of World Revolution” can be read on their website, where they call themselves “Trotskyites”, and it’s apparent that this is a highly political leftist organization, with violence as an ideological cornerstone, that this particular wing of the Church has forged an alliance with.

On November 9 the newspaper DN publishes a report from the annual manifestations against racist violence, to which it seems that some Jews actually were invited to speak this year.

…”Annika Thor from Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace [JIPF] told the story about the German firefighter with Prussian mustachios that saved a synagogue from being destroyed in Berlin during the Kristallnacht.
- He held an official position and his job was to put out fires. But he also showed that the moral responsibility primarily lies with each individual.
She urged the listeners to see who the guilty really are. Israeli governmental occupation of Palestinian areas does not justify Jew hate anymore than Muslim fundamentalist attacks justifies xenophobia against Muslims.”…

On November 26 in the DN debate section a warning is published about a possible future Swedish society:

…”Islam is Sweden’s fastest growing people’s movement. The number of practicing Muslims are around 100 000. Another couple of hundred thousands have their roots in Muslim countries. In 15-20 years about two million of the Swedish population will consist of immigrants from outside of Europe and their children, mainly Muslim. The demographic trend is largely the same over the whole of Europe. For example, in the Netherlands the majority of the population under the age of 18 will be Muslim by the year 2020. Europe is not only an ageing part of the world, but further more becomes more and more a Muslim part of the world
The other year Mona Sahlin wrapped herself in a veil in the Stockholm mosque. Hosting the visit was the chairman of Sweden’s Muslim Council, famous for his demands that all Muslims in Sweden shall be acknowledged through a separate judicial system – so that they can apply the Sharia Laws – and for having banned marriages between Swedish men and Muslim women…
The Security Police has presented a report that mosques and Koran schools on Swedish soil serve as breeding ground for Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Still the official Swedish attitude is indefensibly forgiving and naïve.
‘In Sweden it’s not prohibited to be a terrorist as long one is a terrorist only in the mind, it is not forbidden to belong to a terrorist organization as long as one does not commit a crime’ [sic!] The chief of the Security Police’s unit for counter terrorism clarified this last week. – “Counter terrorism” gets in this Swedish fashion more the characteristics of an invitation to Al Qaeda to use Sweden as a logistics base.”…

On November 27, 2003 yet another response to a previous article is published. The mentioned Muslim advisor is on file with the police after a complaint was made.

“There have been reactions to Insidan [“the Inside” – a section of the paper] about an article about Islam on the Net (DN, November 14). In the article a Sheik Yousef Al-Quradhawi was mentioned and described as a “successful, religious advisor, especially for Muslims in western Europe, and the one who is behind Islamonline.net”, as well as a “liberal westerner and pragmatic.”
What wasn’t mentioned in the article was that Al-Quradhawi is the same person that during the summer visited the mosque at Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm in order to participate in the conference “Jihad and Denial of its Connection with Terror”. Afterwards sharp criticism was directed at the statements that Al-Quradhawi made during the conference, among them that “Suicide terrorism against Israelis is part of a necessary holy war, a so called Jihad” and that “Israel has no so called civilian inhabitants, not even the children.” These statements was filed with police by the Liberal youth association chairman, Fredrik Malm, and it means that Al-Quradhawi in his speech has agitated for mass murder on Jews. “

On November 29 an Expressen chronicle bears the headline “Terrorists hiding in Sweden”. On December 3 the Swedish state television reports that the EU has stopped the publishing of a report regarding the growing anti-Semitism in Europe. Not surprisingly an entire chapter is devoted to Sweden.

“EU report about anti-Semitism stopped

A research report that accuses pro-Palestinian groups and young Muslims of anti-Semitism has created a quarrel within the EU.
Those who ordered it, the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) with the explanation that it was incomplete, first stopped the report.
The researchers at the EUMC-institute in Vienna claims, on the contrary, that it was stopped because its contents were too sensitive.
Tonight the EU Parliament froze its fundings to the EUMC, according to the CDU politician Lashet. Lashet says to DPA that the lid is closed on the issue, and that it doesn’t fit.”

The report has been available from Israeli sources for a while, or since it was stopped earlier that year, and in the left oriented Israeli paper Ha’aretz which has had a theme of anti-Semitism running for a couple of years, the report has been available for downloading after being leaked. Some of what has been mentioned here so far can also be read it this report.

December 8, 2003. The Swedish state run television has a political society news debate program called Agenda, with an episode dedicated to the increasing European problem with anti-Semitism:

…“In a newly published EU report there are claims that Sweden is among those countries where anti-Semitism is growing the fastest. The report was published first after much discussion. There has been severe criticism regarding the fact that the institute tried to suppress information about Muslim and pro-Palestinian groups partially being behind the anti-Semitism in Europe.”…

On December 21 a lengthy article called About this EU may tell, appeared in Sydsvenskan, listing a number of anti-Semitic events in Europe, presented with the Swedish based founder of Radio Islam, Ahmed Rami, as a leading example of incitement and hatred against Jews.

On December 23 the trend of silence is broken in an article where the following can be read:
“Hassan Moussa is active as an Imam at the Stockholm mosque, a responsibility that includes leading the community’s youth on a path away from violence and misuse of power. Instead the Imam glorifies fanatical fundamentalist movements, which have damaged the reputation of Islam more than anyone else. Thus writes the Imam Muhammed Emin Narozi, in a response to Hassan Moussa.”…

The Green party Parliament member Gustaf Fridolin went on a “field study trip”, at the Swedish taxpayers’ expense together with a friend who just so happened to be an ISM activist, to Israel. They where later arrested on the grounds of incitement.

“According to police, the four incited the demonstrators and attacked one of the border policemen.
‘Once they were arrested the protesters calmed down,’ a police officer said. “

At this time they were discovered where the stone throwing against Israeli security forces had taken place, and where two Israeli police officers had been injured. The tabloid Aftonbladet ran an interview mentioning nothing about any Israeli security forces being attacked. But Fridolin tells in the section “This is my Life” that his driving force, probably for his political commitment, is that “I am pissed off”.

Around the same time, on December 31, Fredrik Malm concludes the year with a written chronicle, regarding the Left party youths’ previous urgent call for the funding of terrorist groups that six days previously murdered Swedish born Noam Lejbovits; with a concluding headline stating “The Young Lefts’ money kills.”

During the year a 30-page long university essay from journalist students is published regarding the coverage in the Swedish papers DN and Aftonbladet (AB) of the Arab-Israeli conflict, while using suggestive techniques and group mechanism. It concludes in chapter 8.1:

…”However, the interesting thing is that AB still has the ambition to conduct “professional journalism” according to what’s is prescribed in the rules for press, TV and radio. The paper has an outspoken policy claiming that AB journalism should be truthful and impartial, and that opinions should be separated from facts. If one hasn’t got an extremely broad interpretation scale towards this policy, this has hardly been applied at all during the coverage of these events.”

Continue to chapter, 2004