On what planet does inviting the asshole who created yet another modern blood libel to an Israeli media convention constitute making any kind of sense?
Minister for Development of the Negev and Galilee Silvan Shalom will not be attending the Dimona media convention, in protest of the attendance of a controversial Swedish journalist at the event.
Shalom also directed his office to cancel funding for the convention, a total of roughly NIS 200,000 (about $60,000.)
Shalom’s decision came after he discovered that Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom, who claimed the IDF was trafficking Palestinian body parts, was slated to take part in the event.
“I’m unwilling to be a party to a convention that grants a platform to an enemy of Israel like Bostrom,” Shalom said. “I will not allow the State of Israel to fund a convention that grants a platform to such man.”
This is not a journalist. This is the man who said he had no proof whatsoever of the charges he was making, but that Israel should investigate them because a Palestinian brought them up. Except that the Palestinian he quoted in the article said they never even spoke to him.
Why, exactly, is this anti-Semitic jackass being invited to an Israeli media convention? Because too many Jews are stupid. Instead of shunning the scum who are giving our enemies the weapons they use to ustify killing us (cf: Richard Goldstone), we try to be evenhanded and fair, even to proven liars.
Good for you, Minister Shalom, for taking the official Israeli seal of approval off this event. Now watch Journalists Without Borders use this as another charge that Israel is mean to its press.