'I have no proof the IDF harvests Palestinians' organs'

Yo Paul, Are you really using Jesus as an example of proof? Taking him as a messiah is done purely on faith, which is not what we base legal decisions on. In a court of law decisions are predicated upon evidence, not just opinion. Now I know what you're thinking. "Accusations, hearsay, and conjecture ARE types of evidence" but you see, courts of law don't accept them as reasonable or valid. The journalist who first made the accusation admits there is NO proof to back up the claim. No evidence whatsoever. Did you fail to notice this in the article? Maybe, if we're intent on getting to the bottom of some cover up perhaps we should start investigating the staggering amount of "honor" killings that occur in Gaza and the West Bank when a young girl kisses a boy who she isn't married to/related to. But I guess it's not important. When Arabs murder Arabs nobody seems to care, but when Jewish people are accused of a crime they didn't commit, now that's a problem!

... also sufficient reason to censure his editor as well... ... such a loaded issue should not be bandyed around based on hearsay...

He didn't say it was fabricated; he said it was unsubstantiated ( but then I don't suppose you would know the difference).

Bostrom's reasoning is almost comical in its unfairness. I guess that since there are some people who believe that Jews use Christian children to make matzoh means that we should investigate that too.

Come on, Chris. Your statement that the IDF has not disproven the outrageous allegations is disingenuous at best; One could no more disprove that kind of allegation than one could prove that unicorns or even G-d do not exist. The onus is on the accuser to provide proof, not the other way around.

Why should the IDF have to prove a negative? You Israel bashers are something else.

...why does mr. bostrom focuses on israel? why doesn't he focus on his home country sweden?

Because every scientist and surgeon in Sweden was available to tell him that organs can't be harvested for transplant from cold dead corpses. He knew the story couldn't be true when he published it. Ask Israel to disprove? Like asking the Jews to prove they don't make children into Matzah, or control the world's banks - making the loony allegation itself is an act of premeditated slander, which is the actual intent. Not "journalism". Allegations of Israeli "unauthorized" autopsies? More nonsense. Every country in the developed world conducts investigative autopsies on persons who die a violent or criminal death, whether the relatives agree or not. Including Sweden.

He came all the way to Israel to say his story was unsubstantiated? Why he could have wrote a retraction from home and issued a televised global apology from Stockholm.

Organ harvesting is a medical process that needs to be done bty trained physicians using the proper equipment and storage environment. It is not possible to harvest organs in a battle zone in the hot desert and keep the organs in healthy state. If it is not medically pheasible then it is not true. No need to investigate it. It is like if I say that Paul (that's you) are harvesting human parts. You and the whole world would laugh at me and go away, right?

Linthwaite claims that the IDF has not proven that they didn't harvest Palestinian organs. Tell me, lint wit, how do you prove a negative? Also, they haven't disproved Santa Claus either; be sure to be waiting by the fireplace with milk and cookies on the eve of the 24th...

Aftonbladet never had anything serious to say,so they have bought some"prime-time"coverage with the article.Since,they had nothing serious to write about,so they are bying some "minutes of fame"by putting it on the news again. Israel should ignore the man and his tabloid, they do not deserves our time.

Not having the proof and publishing is bad journalism. Having the proof (kneecapping,lynching,etc,)and not publishing is biased journalism. Admitting after the damage is done is bad and biased morals.

Yo Chris, you're asking for the IDF to prove a negative which is impossible. Traditionally the burden of proof falls to those who make the allegation because it's impossible to prove someone/some group DIDN'T do something. I'm sure if we asked you to furnish proof you have never molested a child you could understand the unfair position you'd been put in. But I suppose you deserve better treatment, especially in the face of a total lack of evidence. Perhaps the IDF does as well, but since it's primarily composed of Jewish people maybe you/Sweden think otherwise. However, until some/any evidence is presented we should file this with the protocols of the elders of Zion, the Syrian blood libel, and the passion of the Christ. Just another fabricated story meant to illicit hatred and fear of the vile Jew.

the minute immigrants were discussed. Suddenly their govt found they could criticise and condemn their media after all.

Why try to shoot the messenger instead of coming clean?

2000 years ago a guy from Tarsas claimed that the Messiah had come. He had no proof or real evidence.

Sweden has such problems with their Moslim guests, that their focus should be on that, not on Israel

How does a soldier 19 -21 years old "harvest" human organs? How exactly does he know where to cut and how to extract a kidney, a liver , a cornea? And I understand that a fresh organ has a very short shelf span so what is next? A hospital must be available at very short notice, a team of doctors, a recipient. Mr. Swedish journalist makes the whole procedure sound as simple as picking strawberries on a sunny day. Please Mr. Bostrom, give us the name of the hospitals' ORs that collaborated, and the doctors that operated and the people that are walking around with the so called organs. If you cannot provide the information then the truth is that you are a liar and you used this lie to advance your mediocre career. Wish you read and answered my letter, mr. Swedish journalist.

You more true than realty. I agree 200% with you.

Sounds like Bostrom still doesn't understand the problem he has instigated..hey, instead of 'investigative' reporting Bostrom conducted 'instigative' reporting....

..vehiculate rumours and lies? What is his real purpose and agenda? Greed, publicity, career on Arab's payroll coupled of course with congenital anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Well that explains it all. Quit a journalist!

"Donald Bostrom admitted he had no proof beyond the allegations of the families of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army". Serious allegations where there is no proof can sell a "news" story... Bostrom said, "In Sweden, like myself ..." "If you violate the rules ... we have a tradition to criticize." Really..? I didn't read of any self criticism from Bostrom. Perhaps Bostrom considers selling his unproven allegations more important than seeking the truth. Swedish journalism is not well represented by Donald Bostrom.

(From a previous episode of haaretz sitcom) GL : Welcome to Israel and thanks for a great hatchet job. DB : Thank you. It's the least I can do as one who supports Israel's right to exist but who also wants a more just Israel. GL : Great answer. Here are more questions - just write the replies you like. DB : But I thought haaretz journalists must investigate? GL : Mmmmm, aaahhhh....You scooped us on those baseless accusations but hey, we spread them all across the world. Cos we haaretz journalists also support Israel's right to exist but we also want a more just Israel. DB : Great, cos not every criticism of Israel - even baseless ones - is anti-Semitism. GL : Wow, you have just given me the headline for my article. We are like a couple made in heaven, so alike as two peas in a pod and more closely jointed at the hips than Siamese twins! DB : Oh shucks, gideon.....

He surfs the wave of anti-Semitism with no evidence, and sells his paper. His anti-Semitic article has made an otherwise unknown mediochre columnist, into a celebrity, under the dark bat's wings of anti-Semitism.

As smart as Israelis are, certainly they can find out from the Rabbis in New Jersey from where the organs came. The organs did not descent from the sky. Until someone finds the source a cloud will still hang above the IDF. It seems so simple. People in New Jersey know. DO we have to wait until the trial? Or will the case be dropped just as the one was dropped against the recent APIAC spies? It is sickening.

I have no proof of the blood libel except the reports from the Czars secret police.

... more feeble-minded every time he opens his mouth. A journalist? Perhaps he should consider cleaning toilets as a new career.

and tell him to get a real journalism degree!!

no proof beyond testimonies and no proof are two different things. slightly misleading title.

Well, let me see I have this right. If a Swedish journalist was contacted by a number of people who alleged that Mr.Bostrom was a pedophile who had abused numerous Swedish children, on this basis alone the journalist would then have sufficient reason to write an article making public these accusations without ever doing any further investigation to verify their plausibility. And the Aftonbladet would then, of course, publish the article. Correct? Neither that journalist nor Mr.Bostrom would ever have received a degree from an accredited school of journalism here in the U.S. To publish such allegations without any independent investigation is simply a sham.

"The fact is that the families said what they said. That's a normal article," Bostrom said." What it is, Mr Bostrom, is anti-Semitic rumormongering pretending to look like journalism. You knew that charges like these would take on a life of their own, regardless of whether there was any truth whatsoever in the statements. If you couldn't bestir yourself to verify the claims, you shouldn't have printed them in Sweden's largest daily.

against Jews no not just Israelis,Jews.The Palestine government official media makes this look tame.

Maybe this guy Bostrom should find a job at one of those magazines they sell at the grocery store check-out line that report on alien abductions and Elvis sightings. That would be more in line with his journalistic standards.

Go and ask all the families who members were suspected of having their organs harvested, there is more than one way to find out if a story is true or not, people would rather distract than do anything productive about the situation

that organs have not been harvested from Palestinians either

Where in the world would a government which is globally under fire allow a hate monger to "defend" his lack of journalistic integrity?? The man should not be allowed to sharpen pencils in the back of a cemetary let along write in a publication read by human beings. Usually journalists back up their articles with facts based on investigation. However in his particular case he bases his article on statements made by Palestinians that came under attack as a result of their elected governments activities. Yes Folks, lets put it in perspective. The Palestinians voted in Hamas and they brought the full force of the Israeli Forces down on them. Terrorism and hiding behind old people and children will bring you more and more strife. He should have written about that.

Quite a statement from a journalist. Despite the long history of outright lies of massacres, bombing of ambulances etc., etc. They know that they will always have a willing ear for their hysterical and outrageous claims. Even Goldstone concedes that his 'report' has no probative value and would be useless in a court of law. This is a very wacky world where whoever shrieks the loudest gets the attention, and usually from the Left for their pet projects.

No surprise since evidence is rarely required when it comes to Israel bashing.