Can you spell Godwin, boys and girls? That’s right. Utterly and conveniently forgetting the officially sanctioned heroics of Raoul Wallenberg )not to mention the joys brought by thousands of Swedish female volunteers in Kibbutzim all over Israel, gracing lawns and pools with their blessed toplessness), top Israeli ministers, led by Foreign Minister Yvette Lieberman (yeah, no irony there), began screeching that “Just like in WW2, Sweden is standing by in the face of Anti-Semitism.” The papers played along with the hysteria campaign and both high-selling rags, Yediot and Ma’ariv, ran it on the front page in 10 foot block letters.
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The Apartheid regime in South Africa excelled not only in the persecution of blacks and the denial of their rights, but also in the silencing of its liberal opponents, who were accused of treachery and of inciting a public hysteria. This denial was massively aided by the local press, and grounded in a sense of [...] |
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