Posted on 08/25/2014 9:00:09 AM PDT by Nachum
On Sunday, the magazine deleted the allegations from a two-minute video on its website about the Israel Defense Forces and added a correction, writing at the end, “Correction: The original version of this video cited a contested allegation in a 2009 Swedish newspaper report as fact. The allegation has been removed from the video.”The video, titled “The IDF: A look inside Israel’s powerful military,” said the “IDF is not without controversy,” reporting that “in 2009 a Swedish report came out exposing some Israeli troops of selling organs of Palestinians who died in their custody.”
Labels: blood libel, organ harvesting, organ theft, Swedish anti-Semitism, Time Magazine
Their latest cover seems to be a big lie too
” a contested allegation “
TIME refuses to call it a lie!
This is NOT an apology!
Time’s up along time ago.
As a consequence of my original post (which Time has now removed) which showed the scurrilous origin of the video’s orginal bogus claim regarding organ harvesting, Time has removed that piece of blatant and obnoxious anti-Semitic propaganda from their IDF vid.
Interestingly enough, the entire vid has be re-narrated, with the narrator using a generally positive and upbeat tone, whereas in the original vid, the narrator used a neutral to disapproving tone throughout the original vid as if he was smelling something bad during the entire narration.
My original post was the same as I posted at FR yesterday:
“The reference is to a completely made up tabloid style article in an obscure Swedish paper, that even the author admitted was not based on any evidence.
Here is what was said after it was published back in 2009:
Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet’s August 2009 story accusing the IDF of harvesting Palestinian organs caused an uproar. Donald Bostrom, the author of the offensive piece, duly demonstrated his utter lack of any basic journalistic standards when he said: “But whether it’s true or not – I have no idea, I have no clue.”
On top of this, the story was further undermined as one of the Palestinian families interviewed said they never told any reporter that their son was missing organs.”
All of which begs a question (actually - a few)
1. Was Time aware of the propaganda?
2 What was the original purpose of the Time article?
3. Why didn't Time address the issue directly and avoid any comment of retraction?
4. Is there any communication between the original sources for this article from Europe? Can we see the notes?
5. Is there any communication between operatives in the State Dept. or the administration on any level on the publishing of this story?
“The original version of this video cited a contested allegation in a 2009 Swedish newspaper report as fact.”
Contested?!? They really don’t want to admit that it is flat out false.
The fact is that the allegation isn’t even plausible. You can’t sell the organs of someone who “died in your custody”. Organs can only be harvested from people who are still alive.
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