Israel is to lodge an official complaint with Sweden over claims in a newspaper that Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians to sell their organs.
The article was published in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet this week.
The Swedish ambassador to Israel condemned the newspaper article as "shocking and appalling".
The government in Stockholm has not issued a similar condemnation, and Israeli foreign ministry officials have reacted furiously....
In a blog post on Thursday evening, Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt wrote that he would not condemn the article, and that freedom of expression is part of the Swedish constitution.
Mr Bildt added that condemnation of anti-Semitism is "the only issue on which there has ever been complete unity in the Swedish parliament".
Until now I guess. Seemingly, the blood libel of Jews is not considered anti-Semitic in Sweden.
Lovely.
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