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Sadly, blood libel is not dead
Andrew Tucker, Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The spirit of anti-Semitism keeps rearing its head, even among those who should know better. Robin Shepherd reports that a senior UK Liberal-Democrat recently recommended investigating claims that Israelis have been harvesting bodily organs in Haiti. How cynical and twisted can you get? It was the Israeli’s who were the first to mobilize specialist support teams in Haiti! And still people seem determined to demonize the Jews.

Robin Shepherd’s blog:
In a rare piece of good news from the UK, Baroness Tonge has been dismissed as spokesperson for the Liberal Democrat Party in the House of Lords after suggesting that Israel should investigate claims that members of its relief team in Haiti had been harvesting bodily organs and selling them on the black market.

Tonge has a sordid record of anti-Israel extremism. In 2004, she even went on record as saying she might have become a suicide bomber had she been born a Palestinian.

In her latest outburst, she associated herself with a medieval-style blood libel which was started last year by Sweden’s top selling newspaper Aftonbladet. The paper claimed that Israeli soldiers were murdering Palestinian children in order to harvest their bodily organs and sell them on the black market, possibly in conjunction with Jews in the United States. After Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt refused to distance his country from the story it spread like wildfire across the Muslim world and beyond.

Bildt, a favourite among the European governing classes, remains unrepentant and the story continues to resurface.

Tonge was fired by Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg who said her remarks were ”wrong, distasteful and provocative”. It is not yet clear whether she will be thrown out of the Liberal Democrat Party altogether, though that is thought to be unlikely.
Israel’s relief operation in Haiti has been widely praised as exceptional, which is why anti-Israeli activists and fellow travellers have been at pains to find ways of discrediting it.

Published on February 14th 2010 by Robin Shepherd on www.robinshepherdonline.com