[Christian Science Monitor] Ilene R. Prusher - In the view from Jerusalem, the Swedish government should condemn Aftonbladet, which suggested that Israel snatched the organs of Palestinians who died in their custody. In the view from Stockholm, Israel should accept that in a democracy, newspapers are free to print what they wish, and that it isn't the place of governments to interfere. The head of Israel's Government Press Office, Daniel Seaman, acknowledged Monday that he was holding up all requests for press credentials from Swedish nationals for rigorous, three-month investigations, claiming that some Swedish nationals asking for credentials turn out to be activists and not journalists. "The fact that they published anti-Semitic filth in their paper doesn't get anyone upset. But the fact that we will not provide credentials, that has people up in arms," Seaman says. "We don't expect an apology, but we're expecting them to do the morally decent thing by denouncing this kind of virulent anti-Semitism."
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