Swedish Blood Libel Poisons Ukrainian Election Campaign

The Swedish blood libel continues to rear its ugly head: From Haaretz:

Stories appearing on several Ukrainian Web sites claim Israel has brought around some 25,000 Ukrainian children into the country over the past two years in order to harvest their organs.

The claim, which was made by a Ukrainian philosophy professor and author at a pseudo-academic conference in Kiev five days ago, is the latest expression of a wave of anti-Semitism in the country. It comes a few months after a Swedish tabloid ran an article alleging that Israel Defense Forces soldiers have killed Palestinian civilians for their organs.

Jews, Israel and anti-Semitism have become a major motif of the presidential election campaign in Ukraine, with some figures making anti-Semitic statements and others condemning them.

And according to Palestinian Media Watch, Israeli doctors were barred from an Egyptian medical conference over the same libel. Donald Bostrom's irresponsible journalism has a longer half-life than Iran's uranium stockpile, and is just as radioactive.

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