Reply #14: Israel demands Swedish condemnation of IDF organ harvesting article [View All]

Stockholm Jewish community leader Lena Posner tells Ynet article accusing IDF soldiers of harvesting Palestinians' organs was buried in back pages of Swedish tabloid, before angry Israeli response inflamed situation. 'Anti-Semitism here is not so bad, and bringing up the Holocaust every time is definitely unhelpful to us'; PM calls accusations' outrageous'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3765758,00.html

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"The Israeli government declared Sunday morning that it expects the Swedish government to officially condemn the newspaper report which accused Israel Defense Forces of harvesting Palestinians' organs.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "We do not want the Swedish government to apologize, we want it to issue a condemnation."

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"However, leaders of the Jewish community in Sweden believe that Israeli elements are responsible for inflaming the situation.

According to Lena Posner, head of the Jewish community in Stockholm and president of the Official Council of Jewish Communities in Sweden, "Israel caused all this mess."

Posner told Ynet, "The article was published here on Monday, but no one paid any attention to it. It wasn't a news report and was buried in the back pages of a tabloid. The writer is known to many of us as anti-Israel, and so it the entire paper. This is why no one took it seriously – until Israel got involved."