När rasisten Avigdor Lieberman jämför Boströms artikel i Aftonbladet (som inte hävdar att Israels armé stjäl palestiniers organ, utan bara spekulerar i det) och den svenska regeringens ståndpunkter med hur Sverige agerade under andra världskriget och påstår att Sverige är ett antisemitiskt land har han fel på alla punkter. Det finns det också folk i Israel som hävdar:
The comparison between Sweden’s refusal to condemn the article and its alleged silence during the Holocaust will not further Israel’s foreign policy any more than the racist ideology of Yisrael Beiteinu.
From a historic point of view, too, the minister’s claims are misplaced. Sweden’s King Gustav V demanded of the Hungarian ruler at the time, Admiral Miklos Horthy, that the Jews in Hungary not be expelled. What is much more important is that Sweden saved the lives of some 20,000 Jews.
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Either way, Swedish neutrality enabled the various rescue organizations, including Jewish groups, to base themselves in Stockholm and work from there in support of the persecuted. The main rescue efforts were carried out with the acknowledgment of the Swedish government, and some even as a result of its initiatives.
In October 1943, Sweden permitted nearly 8,000 Jews to enter the country, and thus saved their lives. In the summer of 1944, the Swedish embassy in Budapest issued documents to some 4,500 Hungarian Jews. These documents served to save thousands of other Jews. The Swedish banker Raul Wallenberg, who later disappeared in a Soviet prison, is best known for this operation.
The White Bus Operation, during the last weeks of the war, was made possible in part as a result of the negotiations between the SS Commander Heinrich Himmler and the Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, who was later murdered in Jerusalem because of the peace plan he had proposed.
Sweden is one of the few countries that has passed special legislation against anti-Semitism. In January 2000, it also hosted an important international conference that gave a major boost to the global struggle against Holocaust denial.
Och under tiden som Sverige, svensk media, sionistiska bloggare och högerextremister samt en del israeliska media och regeringsföreträdare är hysteriskt upptagna med att diskutera en pseudofråga, eller rättare sagt en icke-fråga, dvs det icke-existerande antisemitiska Sverige, fortsätter Israels etniska rensning och övergrepp mot ursprungsbefolkningen i området.
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