Palestinian family at center of Swedish blood libel: Hey, we didn't say the Zionists stole our boy's organs

The mother says she never told the Swedish "journalist" that her son's organs had been stolen. And the jihadist's brother says that the family has no evidence that his organs were stolen. But living in the West Bank as they do, even they are starting to believe it.

Aftonbladet Blood Libel Update: "Palestinian family: We didn't say organs taken," by Khaled Abu Toameh in the Jerusalem Post, August 25 (thanks to Benedict):

The family and relatives of Bilal Ahmed Ghanem, the Palestinian at the center of the organ-theft story in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet, said on Monday that they didn't know if the accusations were true or not.
The family lives in the tiny village of Imatin in the northern West Bank. Ghanem, 19, was killed by IDF soldiers during the first intifada on May 13, 1992.

He was a Fatah activist who was wanted by the IDF for his involvement in violence.

His mother, Sadeeka, said he was shot by an IDF sniper as he walked out of his home. "The bullets hit him directly in the heart," she said.

Ghanem's younger brother, Jalal, said he could not confirm the allegations made by the Swedish newspaper that his brother's organs had been stolen.

"I don't know if this is true," he said. "We don't have any evidence to support this."

Jalal said his brother was evacuated by the IDF in a helicopter and delivered to the family only a few days later.

The mother denied that she had told any foreign journalist that her son's organs had been stolen.

However, she said that now she does not rule out the possibility that Israel was harvesting organs of Palestinians....

Ibrahim Ghanem, a relative of Bilal, said that the family never told the Swedish photographer that Israel had stolen organs from the dead man's body.

"Maybe the journalist reached that conclusion on the basis of the stitches he saw on the body," he said. "But as far as the family is concerned, we don't know if organs were removed from the body because we never performed our own autopsy. All we know is that Bilal's teeth were missing."...

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17 Comments

jewcat | August 26, 2009 12:02 AM

Ah yes. The great false teeth transplant. Bad Israelis.

champ | August 26, 2009 12:27 AM

"However, she said that now she does not rule out the possibility that Israel was harvesting organs of Palestinians...."

Late Night Comedy -- in my time zone anyway :)

Bad Mo Foe | August 26, 2009 12:30 AM

This is just sick. A false story published as truth without even a hint of it from the actual family in question.

But what else is new?

P.S. I changed my handle from "Mo Foe" because someone appropriated it!

Muslims Against Sharia | August 26, 2009 1:28 AM

Aftonbladet is a cheap tabloid. Why would anyone even pay attention to what they print?

Alexander Münch | August 26, 2009 2:11 AM

Allah Hu Akbar!
My Blood pressure is back to normal!
Now, I have to re-write the posts on this subject in my Blog!...
Tell Mr. Donald Boström, that I hate him now more then before reading this entry!!!

Virgil | August 26, 2009 3:03 AM

One of the most disturbing things that I have found is that there were many non-Muslims peddling this antisemitic garbage as fact. Those on the radical Left will believe anything about the Jews, provided it depicts them in the worst light possible. Of course, these same leftists cannot be bothered when Hamas deliberately kills children or blows up a pizza parlor. Yet if some trashy tabloid prints some modern version of the old blood libel they scream how evil the Jews are and how they must be held accountable.

As for Aftonbladet, I dare them to cover the relationship between the rise of antisemitism in Europe and the increase in Muslim immigration. Or how about the increasing rape of Swedish women by Muslim immigrant gangs. Would they dare do either story?

Virgil | August 26, 2009 3:38 AM

Yet another American Muslim involved with jihad terrorism against his own countrymen:

A Lebanese American who faces terrorism charges is linked to al Qa’eda, the Federal Supreme Court was told yesterday.
Naji Hamdan, 43, is charged with promoting terrorism, participating in the work of a terrorist organisation and funding a terrorist organisation.

Details of the charges, all relating to alleged activity outside the UAE, emerged for the first time yesterday.

A lawyer for the State Security Public Prosecution told the court: “Naji Hamdan is directly linked to Ansar al-Sunna and al Qa’eda members through electronic communication.”

Ansar al-Sunna is a militant Sunni faction in Iraq connected to al Qa’eda.

epistemology | August 26, 2009 4:42 AM

It|s about time for Aftonbladet to apologise, the Israelis have already asked them to do so.

Thomas_h | August 26, 2009 4:57 AM

Aftonbladet is a cheap tabloid. Why would anyone even pay attention to what they print?

Posted by: Muslims Against Sharia

How cheap is the Aftonbladet is beside the point. What matters is that it is the MOST read daily paper in Sweden. Its filthy, grotesque allegation is not harmless nonsense, but a message that leaves a permanent damage to the image of Israel AND Jews in the mind of an average Swede. I often read Swedish papers especially the comments of the readers. It is shocking to see how many Swedes don't question the veracity of that blood libel, but respond with most hateful and gleeful anti-Israel comments. Lies, like every other idea have consequence. The consequence of that poisonous article published by the major Swedish paper is pure hate not just of Israel, but the Jews generally. To dismiss it with "why would anybody pay attention...?" is as disingenuous as your moniker.

Ipso Facto | August 26, 2009 5:45 AM

Thomas_h:

"I often read Swedish papers especially the comments of the readers. It is shocking to see how many Swedes don't question the veracity of that blood libel, but respond with most hateful and gleeful anti-Israel comments."

It is indeed shocking to see a new version of the ancient blood libel against Jews uncritically reported in a welfare state like Sweden. But knowing Swedish history it is not surprising that many Swedes now believe in such hateful racistic nonsense.

Blood libel against the Jewish people can be traced back to ancient times:

Although the first known instance of blood libel against Jews was in the writings of Apion, an early 1st century pagan Greco-Egyptian who claimed that the Jews sacrificed Greek victims in the Temple, no further incidents are recorded until the 12th century, when blood libels began to proliferate in Christian Europe.

Blood libel accusations have often asserted that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and historically blood libel claims have often been made to account for otherwise unexplained deaths of children.

In some cases, the alleged victim of human sacrifice, child or adult, has become venerated as a martyr, a holy figure around whom a martyr cult might arise. A few of these have been even canonized as saints. These libels have persisted among some segments of Christians to the present time, and among the Muslims from the birth of Islam.

duh_swami | August 26, 2009 6:10 AM

At least the tooth fairy leaves a buck...
Everyone knows that Israel and joo's are responsible for every dastardly deed ever done.
Missing teeth is the proof...Look how many Mahoundians in the Mid East are missing teeth...They are everywhere...When you see missing teeth, you know the joo's have been at work...

tanstaafl | August 26, 2009 6:11 AM

Taquiyya Alert!

Seymour Paine | August 26, 2009 6:25 AM

An article in the Times (a blog type opinion piece which I can't find now) talks about the organ stealing idiocy and says that it would be impossible because organs when "harvested" for use by another person are matched to type, so that it makes no medical sense to take organs from unknown people (who are not tissue typed) for unknown recipients. And makes the further point that once the body dies or the organs are removed, not only is there a small time window when they can be transplanted but that they must be preserved carefully immediately.

Not that one needs to bring up, oh, you know, medical facts, to dispute vile anti-Semitism but it just shows (if one needed more showing) how utterly stupid this all is.

Thomas_h | August 26, 2009 6:50 AM

Ipso,

You are very right about the inglorious anti-Jewish past of the Christianity.
But Sweden’s history is not more marked by anti-Semitism than any other Western country. I’d say probably less so as there were historically very few Jews living in Sweden. Besides, Sweden is hardly a Christian country nowadays, (or perhaps Swedes are hardly Christians today).
I’d risk the assertion that a blood libel of the sort printed by the AftonBladet would meet much greater criticism in Sweden a few decades ago than today. And the reason is not that Sweden became more Christian, on the contrary – it became an atheist state ruled by totalitarian leftist ideology bent on destruction of the Judeo-Christian West. The high priests of that ideology and increasingly a common Swede view (rightly) Israel as the representative of the Western civilization in the Middle East, which makes it THE enemy. The Little Satan assigned to do dirty jobs for the Big Satan.
Both Hitler and Stalin despised Christianity, yet were raving anti-semites.
And please note that the greatest friends Israel has in the West are Christians. The Evangelicals’ support for Israel is not an exception. According to a survey released in April 2008 “more than 80 percent of American Christians say they have a "moral and biblical obligation" to support the State of Israel, and half say Jerusalem should remain its undivided capital…” To my observation it is not very different in Denmark where I live.

Proud_Kafir7908 | August 26, 2009 7:26 AM

Well, I assume everyone here might remember whose organs were removed (ripped out would describe the disgusting "procedure" more accurately) by some inbred fascist supremacist scum in the Israeli territories illegally occupied by Egyptian and Jordanian squatters.

I would assume that the kind of "organ removal" that occurred on the occasion that the picture at the linked address was taken is something that Donald Boström and scum of his ilk wouldn't care to investigate in order to write about, would they? Of course not, because such an investigation would, unlike the one he "carried out" for his infamous piece of fiction, produce hard facts. And hard facts that would weaken the baseless arguments for his travesty of journalism.

Enragedsince1999 | August 26, 2009 10:33 AM

Lowly Malmostan formerly known as Sweden. Lowly Swedish Goebbelses aiding Islamo-Nazis.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

Ipso Facto | August 26, 2009 2:19 PM

Swedish double standards.

The Swedish government refuses to comment on the blood libel against Jews and Israel after an article in a Swedish newspaper.

That is how is should be in a democracy with a free press. And that was the same position the Danish Prime minister (originally) took when he came under pressure from a number of Muslim states to have a meeting and condemn the publication in a Danish newspaper of the Muhammad cartoons.

The reaction by the Swedish Government to the Muhammad cartoons were however was not a clear cut support to free speach.

On February 5, 2006 Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laila Freivaldsan, in an interview about the publication of Muhammad cartoons stated the following:

"We support the freedom of speech, that I think is very clear. But at the same time it is important to say that with this freedom comes a certain responsibility, and it could be objectionable to act in a way that insults people."

Sure. It is objectionable to insult Muslims but blood libel against the Jews and Israel is quite in order. To that the they had "no comments".

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