Hello, It was nice to know that you liked the letter, but please feel free to tidy it up. I saw several lapses as I read through it. For instance ‘not’ instead of ‘note’ at the end &c. I will provide you with more information about the Jewish influence in Sweden that is actually quite stunning, especially considering the low number of Jews living here. This will take some time however since I would like to do a good job if the material is intended for publication. In a while I will have a paper which discuss the Jewish influence in media in greater detail then was the case in my e-mail. For instance, there is a Jew named Robert Aschberg in Sweden who wields a great lot of power in our media. He owns the largest production company in Sweden called Strix Television and produces programs for every major channel, especially TV3 where almost all programs that aren’t Hollywood produced sitcoms, talk shows (Ricky Lake and Jerry Springer) or bad movies comes from Strix. It was Strix by the way that first came up with the idea of the show Survivor, now broadcasted also in the USA. Aschberg himself is the head of several of these usually noisy and chaotic shows and has thus been called Sweden’s Michel Friedman. His maternal grandfather is the banker Olof Aschberg who helped finance the Russian revolution and his brother, Richard Aschberg, works at Aftonbladet (the Evening Post). Robert Aschberg is further an important financer of eXpo, a Swedish version of the ADL, while it however is not an exclusively Jewish organization. To analyze the Jewish influence in Sweden is a delicate matter, much due to the fact that the influence in many regards is indirect. For instance, a couple of years ago (in 1997) a Jewish historian named Stéphane Bruchfeld made an investigation asking Swedish students questions about the Holocaust. The result of the investigation showed that one third of the student questioned the official version of the Holocaust, something that outraged the media who blamed the Swedish educational system for this. The government responded by making a decision that 700.000 copies of a book about the Holocaust that should be distributed to all students in the country and be sent to several households. The author appointed for writing the book? You might remember his name: Stéphane Bruchfeld. The best part is that after the decision was made, someone noticed that Bruchfeld “accidentally” had misinterpreted the figures of his investigation. Actually very few students questioned the official version of the Holocaust. Well, Bruchfeld was not very sorry, he had already been appointed to write the book which then was distributed as planed. As a consequence several schools arranged annual theme days with discussions about how Jews have been persecuted and history in school nowadays focus more on the Holocaust than on the Second World War at large. The actions of Bruchfeld may have been direct, but many of the consequence were indirect. There was no official demand for theme days or more focus on the Holocaust in education, still as this was a direct result of Bruchfeld’s doings and how young Swedes nowadays are learning about the “unique” suffering of Jews during the Second World War is an example of the indirect Jewish influence in our country. Bruchfeld is by the way engaged in Svenska Kommittén mot Antisemitism (SKMA; the Swedish Committee against Anti-Semitism), a lobbying organization that also “educates” schoolteachers, students and journalists about anti-Semitism, which in practice mean that all criticism of Jews is hate and should be extinguished. Earlier this week SKMA arranged a two-day seminar called “From prejudice to genocide” and had invited leading journalists from all major media. The two main themes of the seminar were that criticism of Israel in media should be equated with anti-Semitism, which in the end could, or most likely would, end with genocide, and that anti-Semitism among Muslims and Arabs in Sweden is widespread but denied by the anti-Semitic media in Sweden. Well, of course the anti-Semitic media ruled by the Bonnier family, Peter Hjörne (Kaplan) and Helle Klein responded by denouncing the evil Muslims and Arabs in Sweden that do have the nerve to criticize Jews or the altruistic state of Israel. I have read the 50 page report released by SKMA during the seminar, The Denied Hatred – Anti-Semitism among Arabs and Muslims in Sweden. I wish I had the time to translate it for you, and I guess you wished you had the time to then actually read it. It expresses some extremely subjective perspectives and exemplifies the particularistic view that so many Jews hold. The official author of the report, the Gentile Mikael Tossavainen, equates all anti-Semitism with Jew-hate. This is very important when analyzing what he later on refers to as anti-Semitic. For instance, the report claims that the view that Jews somehow ever could contribute to or cause an anti-Semitic reaction is in it self anti-Semitism made manifest. Further, the policies or doings of Israel has nothing at all to with why Arabs or Muslims may dislike Jews, according to the report. All Arabs or Muslims who may dislike or criticize Jews have hated Jews all along anyway. Another amazing suggestion is that anything critical about Judaism as a religion is anti-Semitic. To claim that Jews according to the Jewish religion are considered to better then “the nations of the world” or that that there would be anything amoral in Torah, or any glorification of violence is anti-Semitism. In other words, if you do claim anything of this you are an anti-Semite and per definition do hate Jews. Great objective scholarship don’t you think? The report also considers Palestinian school-books anti-Semitic since they refer to Israel as the “1948-country”, calls suicide-bombers martyrs, and do not mention the Oslo-accord. Well, well, what could one not add to this discussion regarding Israeli school-books? Then, of course, there is no term for Jewish hatred of Gentiles. Racism? No, Judaism is perfect remember, anything critical to Jewish behavior or Judaism is anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism is Jew-hatred. This is the paradigm of Jewish apology, the extremely subjective and contradictory Jewish apology. The logic is that all Gentiles criticizing Jews do so, always, without any real reason except for an irrational, pathologic hatred. These anti-Semitic Gentiles further blame Jews for all the bad things happening to them in the world. Well, what if we apply that logic to Jews, what do we have? Jews are constantly blaming Gentiles for being anti-Semitic whenever they are having any problems. All the Jews problems are caused by anti-Semites; at least that is what we are told. The same logic Jews claim anti-Semites are following they are following themselves by expressing that very claim. Well, I guess we will continue discussing this topic further on in the future. (M)