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Audio: Swedish Freedom of Expression
8/30/2009 9:13:00 PM
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.It’s Freedom of the Press Swedish style. Aftonbladet, a sensationalist Swedish tabloid newspaper published the unconfirmed story by a known anti-Semite, that IDF snatches Palestinians, harvests their organs and then returns them by night dead, slyly linking it with the alleged organ trade by Jews in New Jersey. Walter’s World tried hard to get comment from official Swedish government circles, but gets only the cold shoulder. While buildings of Jewish institutions in Sweden have to be heavily protected, their leaders offer half hearted excuses for their government’s silence, despite Israel’s protest. Also: What 80% of Jews in the US know about Israel is what their local media reports. And: An assessment of Europe’s engrained anti-Semitism.
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Walter Bingham was born in, Germany. Just days before the outbreak of WWII, with the help of a Zionist youth movement he was selected for a place on the ‘Kindertransport’ to Great Britain. Walter saw front line action during the Normandy invasion of Europe and was awarded the Military Medal for ‘Bravery in the Field’. In England Walter also acted in films including several Harry Potter films. On the day of his Aliyah in August 2004 he transferred his programme ‘Walter’s World’ to Israel National Radio as a weekly Magazine programme and it has been running here regularly ever since. Walter is an accomplished public speaker and was a member of a visiting panel of lecturers at schools throughout the UK, where he spoke on events in the Third Reich. He has also spoken at schools in the USA and addressed audiences in Israel.