Let us recall that it was Sweden’s top-selling newspaper, Aftonbladet, that last year published an anti-Semitic blood libel by alleging that Israeli soldiers routinely murdered Palestinian children and harvested their bodily organs for sale on the international black market. The Swedish government responded with indifference, and worse: when the country’s ambassador to Israel put up a note on the embassy’s Web site distancing Sweden from such appalling calumnies, her enraged superiors in Stockholm ordered her to take it down.
回想起来，正是瑞典销量最大的报纸《Aftonbladet（晚间消息）》在去年登载了一篇极度血腥的诽谤犹太人的报道，声称以色列军人一直都在杀害巴勒斯坦儿童，并取下器官拿到黑市上贩卖。而瑞典政府对此报道的反映却异常冷漠，甚至有推波助澜之势：当瑞典驻以色列大使在大使馆网站上刊登告示，试图将瑞典与这种耸人听闻的诽谤划清界限之时，她在斯德哥尔摩的上司却为此暴跳如雷，并命令她撤销告示。